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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
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Unfortunately, many of today's readers can't imagine properly the feeling of sitting in a room, and listening to the story - instead they begin to assume they're actually the person telling the story, and they expect to be informed of the facts and get the feeling from the facts.
That said, I find Call of Cthulhu boring as well. I prefer "In the Mountains of Madness", which is much better suited to today's readers.
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That's a very good point. When writing - today - you're told to 'show' rather than 'tell'. The idea being that you should work at helping the reader step into the written world and experience it through reading. The 'model' Lovecraft is using is more like a 'listening mode', but since I'm not used to reading that way, I involuntarily judge this by more modern standards.
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Originally Posted by Renaldo
I've tried several times in my life to like Lovecraft. I never got that far in the reading, his stories were somewhat inaccessible to me. Last year, on a whim, I downloaded several audio books of his stories. I ended up devouring them. I got more, ran through those and couldn't get enough of him. Suddenly, I got it. I still don't necessarily enjoy reading Lovecraft, but a good audio reading of his stories is hard to beat. I'd reccomend anyone 'struggling' with Lovecraft to try a couple of the many available free audiobooks available online and see if that changes your mind about him.
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I think that shows exactly what Krystian is talking about