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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160149.The_Call_of_Cthulhu_and_Other_Weird_Stories?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1172283167m/160149.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160149.The_Call_of_Cthulhu_and_Other_Weird_Stories?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9494.Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft">Howard Phillips Lovecraft</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3966471?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Why oh why did I only start reading Lovecraft now? These are the stories I wished I could have written in my middle school creative writing classes. The language edges on camp, partly because of the time it was written, but also because in attempting to describe of the feeble human mind grasping in vain at comprehending the utterly abysmal depths and age and emptiness of space and the ancient alien gods who rule it is hard to put into words without doing so. The stories by themselves would have been good enough but the fact that he builds up his own mythology of ancient alien races who lived on earth before humans evolved using a series of self-referential mentions (and apparently later carried on by other authors)is wonderful. I can't wait to read more! Fuck this reading books I feel like I'm supposed to be reading shit, it's all Lovecraft horror and Austen romance from here on out! <br/> <br/>PS: The real reason I thought to start reading him was because it's rumored the new obnoxiously/delightfully mysterious JJ Abrams (of Lost) movie is based on his mythology. Not, as John Meigs said, the video game Rampage: <br/> <br/><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOsLD_KlQrw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...</a> <br/><a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Old_One">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...</a> <br/> <br/>PPS: Sometimes he's horribly racist. I don't know what to do about that. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/131229?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>