I have his complete works on my Kindle, but haven't yet got to them. Will do very shortly.
Nice! I've got smatterings of his stuff here and there in different collections, but would love them all to be in one spot.Sam Kates said:I have his complete works on my Kindle, but haven't yet got to them. Will do very shortly.
Since I only just discovered him a couple years ago, I'm always slightly envious of people who've known of him for a long time.jmiked said:I read pretty much all of his work back in the sixties. Several years ago I got an ebook collection and am working though that every so often. I like his stories a lot.
Mike
I studied law for five years, then practised it for fourteen. I was still crap...Tony Richards said:I studied law (groan!) and didn't read a word of fiction for three years.
Andrea Pearson said:I'm interested in seeing the answers to these questions:
1. When did you discover HP Lovecraft?
2. What was your initial reaction?
3. Has your opinion of him changed?
4. What is your favorite story of his?
1. Sometime in the early to mid 1990s. I had already picked up his name somewhere, so I recognized it when I spotted a Lovecraft collection in paperback at the local bookstore and bought it.
2. Oh my God, must we really learn every single detail about this Antarctic expedition? And this guy is famous again why?
3. My opinion changed as soon as they dug up the frozen Elder Things, which promptly unfroze, and when they discovered the city of the Elder Things. By that time my reaction was, "Oh my God, I so want to visit that place. I want to go on one of those Antarctic cruises and visit that city." My opinion changed again years later, as I learned more about Lovecraft and that he was not a very pleasant person and unrepentant racist. Still, when he's good, he's very good.
4. Still At the Mountains of Madness, because you'll never forget your first one.
1. Aged about twelve in the local library in an omnibus of Mythos stories by various authors.Andrea Pearson said:1. When did you discover HP Lovecraft?
2. What was your initial reaction?
3. Has your opinion of him changed?
4. What is your favorite story of his?
I felt the exact same way when I read At the Mountains of Madness.CoraBuhlert said:My opinion changed as soon as they dug up the frozen Elder Things, which promptly unfroze, and when they discovered the city of the Elder Things. By that time my reaction was, "Oh my God, I so want to visit that place. I want to go on one of those Antarctic cruises and visit that city."
I've vaguely heard of him, but since I haven't read any of his works, I have no initial reaction and no favorite story.Andrea Pearson said:I'm interested in seeing the answers to these questions:
1. When did you discover HP Lovecraft?
2. What was your initial reaction?
3. Has your opinion of him changed?
4. What is your favorite story of his?
That's the way I feel about it also. I'm going through the entire collection, but I only read something from it every four or five months.VondaZ said:Probably my problem was reading it all at once, rather than mixing it in between other things - I just became oversaturated with it. Also, the archaic style gets old after a while. I get into it for a while and then I get tired of it.