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Old 03-15-2014, 03:39 PM   #10
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Your blushing emoticon could mean that you were either brought here by an interest in True Detective yourself or are embarrassed that I mentioned the series. Either way, no worries.
I saw the reference in True Detective, and thought I might as well read the book sometimes. You were correct in your assessment . I have merely added it to my ever growing to-read pile, though. I am not a fan of horror, but I've read a few Lovecraft stories, and have enjoyed some "New Weird" fiction.

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Which brings us back to my reason for posting: Though Don's edition of The King in Yellow can be easily converted to ePub and mobi in Calibre, people's searches for those versions won't take them to Mobile Read and to his hard work. That seems a shame.
I prefer to look for hand-crafted files in Mobileread than "gamble" on the quality of other sources such as Gutenberg. I appreciate all of the forum members' hard work.

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Sadly, I have now seen TD and find that its relegation of nihilism and pessimism to a single character who ultimately opts for "the light" doesn't do justice to the series' supposed sources. But if Nic Pizzolatto's reading list compels people to sample more classic, vintage and/or obscure writers than they normally would, then he's done something right.
Agreed on both counts.
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