Thread: How did Lovecraft do it?
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Old 11-29-2011, 07:21 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak View Post
His style is more "conversational", he writes as if he is sitting down and telling you the story face to face. I can imagine it works very well for an audiobook, better, actually, than in writing.

I have this urge to go read Lovecraft now... Cthulhu rises on December 21st, right?
I think this is part of it -- it does sound so much more like a story. The version I got from Audible is FANTASTIC, though. I rarely rave about narrators, but this guy nails it. I'll see if I can't dig up a link...

Ah! Here it is. I don't think this is an affiliate link -- I got it straight from my Audible library:

http://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B003IM28EI
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