I was supposed to post this last week, but got delayed because of Thanksgiving. Hope you all had a fun time.
I finished The House at Sea’s End by Elly Griffiths. It was an okay read, not bad, but thinking about getting into another crime series with more action / mystery and less relationship stuff. But I have got the next 5-6 books so will read them.
Read the next Dresden Files novel, Blood Rites by Jim Butcher. I feel the quality of writing has improved a lot since the first couple of novels. This one felt a bit less intense than the last one, but liked the character developments.
Read Jujitsu Kaisen, Vol 4, not much to say about it. More action, more silliness.
Currently reading The Black Company by Glen Cook. I have the omnibus (Chronicles of the Black Company) which has first three books, so may end up reading all three as one book. The writing style is a bit weird, but I think I have gotten used to it.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening? Or have read and listened in last 2-3 weeks?
The Earth Transformed sounds interesting, but I am not sure I’ll enjoy the author digressing so much. Would love to hear what you think about it once you have completed it.
What are your favourite Lovecraftian books?
I think that on average I have probably learned - or seen from a new and interesting perspective - around one new idea per chapter from The Earth Transformed - which is pretty good overall. Still only a third of the way through so far though.
They often say that there has never been a really good Lovecraftian movie yet, and I do wonder whether the same is true of Lovecraftian books by other authors sometimes. I tend to prefer short stories rather than novels for horror of any kind. I have read quite a few not-very-good Lovecraftian shorts over the years. There really aren’t that many that have stuck with me that ARE good though.
There are some of the classics: Blackwood’s The Willows (and, to some extent T Kingfisher’s semi-sequel The Hollow Places), and Hope Hodgeson’s The House on the Borderlands, and some of Derleth’s tales, but I’d struggle to recommend a particular book really.
One of the best Lovecraft fictions in any media that I know of is the BBC The Lovecraft Investigations podcast - which is a modern take on some of his tales but with some other layers to them.