Book Nerd’s Comments (group member since Dec 20, 2018)

Book Nerd’s comments from the Never too Late to Read Classics group.

I finished.
Like everybody I liked the stories at the end less. A lot of them just leave you hanging. And when the text referred to a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles crossover I was hoping that would be in there!

I never read The Whisperer in Darkness before but I've read other stuff that made me wonder why (view spoiler)[Mi-go refers to both crustacean creatures and yeti. It's an odd choice to make the things that are called apelike into that. (hide spoiler)]

At the Mountains of Madness is such a great story. (view spoiler)[The Elder Beings are some of the most original aliens I've read about in any sci-fi.
But I got this weird idea that the ones who colonized earth were kind of "amish". It says that they once had a more technological life but they gave it up because it was "unfulfilling" or something. On earth they depended on beasts of burden(granted, ones they engineered) and they lost a lot of the knowledge they once had.
I also wonder what the story was with the eight in they found. They apparently went into suspended animation millions of years before their civilization declined. (hide spoiler)]

"the Latin text was printed twice—once in the fifteenth century in black-letter (evidently in Germany) "

I only read a little of this stuff when I was a kid.
So far I've read the 40s and 50s.
Those older comics look really weird. Jughead looks old and Archie wants to be called "Chick" lol.
I'm surprised so many of them aren't actually Archie comics.

DREAM CYCLE


✅ 1. Polaris (1918)
✅ 2. The White Ship (1919)
✅ 3. The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)
✅ 4. The Cats of Ulthar (1920)
✅ 5. Celephaïs (1920)
✅ 6. Ex Oblivione (1920)
✅ 7. Nyarlathotep (1920)
✅ 8. The Quest of Iranon (1921)
✅ 9. The Nameless City (1921)
✅ 10 The Other Gods (1921)
✅ 11. Azathoth (1922)
✅12. The Hound (1922)
✅ 13. Hypnos (1922)
✅ 14. What the Moon Brings (1922)
✅15. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926)
✅ 16. The Outsider (1926)
✅17. The Silver Key (1926)
✅18. The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)
✅19. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)
✅20. The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)
✅21. At the Mountains of Madness (1931)
✅22. The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)
✅23. Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932)

CTHULHU MYTHOS
✅24. The Call of Cthulhu (1928)
✅25. The Festival (1923)
✅26. The Dunwich Horror (1929)
✅27. The Whisperer in Darkness (1931)
✅28. The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)
✅29. The Shadow out of Time (1936)
✅30. The Haunter of the Dark (1936)
✅31. The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)
✅32. History of the Necronomicon (1927)

STORIES OF THE MACABRE
✅ 33. Dagon (1917)
✅ 34. The Tomb (1917)
✅ 35. Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
✅ 36. From Beyond (1920)
✅ 37. The Temple (1920)
✅ 38. The Tree (1920)
✅ 39. The Moon-Bog (1921)
✅40. The Lurking Fear (1922)
✅41. The Unnamable (1923)
✅42. He (1925)
✅43. The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
✅44. In the Walls of Eryx (1936)
✅45. The Evil Clergyman (1933)
✅ 46. The Beast in the Cave (1905)
✅ 47. The Alchemist (1908)
✅48. Poetry and the Gods (1920)
✅ 49. Herbert West—Reanimator (1922)
✅ 50. The Street (1919)
✅ 51. The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)
✅52. The Descendant (1927)
✅53. The Book (1933)

OTHER HORRIFYING TALES
✅54. The Battle that Ended the Century (1934)
✅55. The Challenge from Beyond (1935)
✅56. Collapsing Cosmoses (1938)
✅57. Cool Air (1926)
✅58. The Crawling Chaos (1920)
✅59. The Curse of Yig (1928)
✅60. The Diary of Alonzo Typer (1935)
✅61. The Disinterment (1935)
✅62. The Electric Executioner (1929)
✅ 63. Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)
✅64. The Green Meadow (1919)
✅65. The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast (1933)
✅66. The Horror at Martin’s Beach (1922)
✅67. The Horror in the Burying-Ground (1934)
✅68. The Horror in the Museum (1932)
✅69. Ibid (1928)
✅70. In the Vault (1925)
✅71. The Last Test (1927)
✅72. The Little Glass Bottle (1896, age 6)
✅73. The Man of Stone (1932)
✅74. Medusa’s Coil (1930)
✅ 75. Memory (1919)
✅76. The Mound (1930)
✅77. The Music of Erich Zann (1921)
✅78. The Mysterious Ship (1902)
✅79. The Mystery of the Grave-Yard (1899)
✅80. The Night Ocean (1936)
✅ 81. Old Bugs (1919)
✅82. Out of the Aeons (1933)
✅83. Pickman’s Model (1926)
✅ 84. The Picture in the House (1920)
✅85. The Rats in the Walls (1923)
✅ 86. A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (1917)
✅87. The Secret Cave or John Lees Adventure (1899)
✅88. The Shunned House (1924)
✅89. The Slaying of the Monster (1933)
✅ 90. The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)
✅ 91. Sweet Ermengarde (c. 1919–21?)
✅ 92. The Terrible Old Man (1920)
✅93. Till A’the Seas (1935)
✅94. The Trap (1931)
✅95. The Tree on the Hill (1934)
✅96. Two Black Bottles (1926)
✅97. Under the Pyramids (1924)
✅98. The Very Old Folk (1927)
✅99. Winged Death (1932)
✅100. The Colour Out of Space (1927)

Anybody know what "black letter" is? In The History of the Necronomicon it's a language or maybe some kind of code.

I just got back to Lovecraft.

Finished The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. This one was decently respectful to black people and I thought it was kind of funny how he was trying to guilt him about not feeding the nameless horrors.

And I read The Color Out of Space. It's fun trying to imagine a radiation that would seem like a totally new color.

I've been reading the stories by Lovecraft in chronological order, none of the collaborations yet except Through the Gate of the Silver Key. I'll try to put up a list soon.

I didn't realize Archie went all the way back to the 40s. I'll read some soon.

Patrick wrote: "don't think anyone would get it haha."

I'd love to just walk around like this the way people are acting: https://plaguedoctormasks.com/wp-cont...

Susan wrote: "When something upset him, he guzzled liquor straight from the bottle. He had tempter tantrums. And of course, he lusted after the female vampires."
Well I think the alcoholism and tantrums are realistic.

The whole lust thing might just be the way biology would make people react if there were literally as far as they knew only a few people left on earth. Just a theory.
In the end we all revert to adolescent boys and girls.

I just started The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Lovecraft's longest story and another of my favorites.

Lol you should wear it around with all the other mask wearers in the stores.

This was a fun reread.
It was pretty hard to believe that nobody ever figured out what was going on before him though.
Also, I understand not wanting to let go but I will never understand the obsession with funeral customs. Why is it so much better to bury a corpse in a hole than to throw it in a fire? Or vice versa?

Don't forget the Homer Simpson version.

Oh yeah, I forgot the Will Smith movie.

Rosemarie wrote: "Since I couldn't get a copy of the book, I did a bit of research. There are three film versions of the book. The one with Charlton Heston is called Omega Man."
Cool. I didn't know there were three. The Omega Man is the only one I've heard of.

I finished. Enjoyed it pretty well. It reminded me a lot of Fight Club.
I didn't think the art was that great. It was kind of hard to tell the characters apart some of the time.

Rafael wrote: "I am not reading this book now but I read it some months ago. It is fascinating, I only had a problem with the dialect spelling. What it should be?"
Do you mean Harper? Yeah, He's kind of hard to understand. His accent's Scottish.

I just started. I have an elderly paperback from 1971 with Charleton Heston on the cover. I don't think it will survive another read.

I remember the story as a fairly simple and quick read.

Here's a nice map of the dreamlands.

https://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/6610/...

I liked the part where he was talking to the statue of justice.

Also when you get to the Vicious Cabaret you might want to listen to it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO4tQ...