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The House on the Borderland
by William Hope Hodgson
by William Hope Hodgson
I am a great "fan" of H.P. Lovecraft...yet in most cases when I read books or works from authors that are credited as influences on him, I'm not that taken. The same is true here.
The young men arrive in the village where they aren't exactly welcomed...and eventually find themselves in the sinister house in the sinister place reading the sinister manuscript. Apparently the writer had at some point suffered a very bad experience with pork... The book does manage to build a certain amount of darkness and despair into the atmosphere, but in the end it left me cold and I skimmed my way to the end.
I don't know, possibly I'm a bit jaded...still, not horrible (wait a minute...given the type of book this is it might have been striving to be "horrible" in one sense, do you think?)...anyway, I've read worse. I'll go 2 stars instead of 1.
The young men arrive in the village where they aren't exactly welcomed...and eventually find themselves in the sinister house in the sinister place reading the sinister manuscript. Apparently the writer had at some point suffered a very bad experience with pork... The book does manage to build a certain amount of darkness and despair into the atmosphere, but in the end it left me cold and I skimmed my way to the end.
I don't know, possibly I'm a bit jaded...still, not horrible (wait a minute...given the type of book this is it might have been striving to be "horrible" in one sense, do you think?)...anyway, I've read worse. I'll go 2 stars instead of 1.
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Jun 22, 2010 12:46am
You're definitely jaded Mike!
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I agree with Mike in one respect, that I'm not very taken with many of Lovecraft's influences including this one. However, from what I've read of WHH's works, this is one of his better ones.
I still have this on my to read list purely because Lovecraft and a few others have praised it, but somehow I have the feeling i'll probably agree with you on this one. Especially since I've skimmed a few pages of it.
