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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780345329455
ISBN number: 0345329457
Label: Del Rey
Manufacturer: Del Rey
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: September 13, 1991
Publishing house: Del Rey
Release Date: September 13, 1991
Sale Popularity Level: 19935
Studio: Del Rey
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A complete short novel, AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS is a tale of terror unilke any other. The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless--or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures...and the carved stones tens of millions of years old...and, finally, the mind-blasting terror of the City of the Old Ones. Three additional strange tales, written as only H.P. Lovecraft can write, are also included in this macabre collection of the strange and the weird.
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I loved this book. For me, I was not really terrified, but I just love Myths and things like that, so I just kept on reading and loved every minute of it. However, I would find a different book that contains these stories because I was only half way through At the Mountains of Madness when the pages started to come off of the Spine of the book. But trust me, you will be missing out on a great read if you do not read these stories.
Five stars for the Stories
One star for the Book's quality
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I'm really sorry. I tried so hard to enjoy this book. But the fact is that this is the longest, most boring, complicated, overdone book I've ever read. Had to go over 2 or 3 times on the same page to get the picture of what Mr. Lovecraft wanted to describe. It's terribly overdone.
If you want something TERROR, you can read "The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Edgar Allan Poe, and believe me, you will get your fix of starvation, murder, cannibalism, sorrow and regret. All in the only "novel" or long story written by Mr. Poe
I WILL READ AGAIN "At the Mountains of Madness", sometime in the near future. Right now I can only say that is a slow, boring read.
Lovecraft or not.
Cheers!!!
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Honestly. Apart from being, without a Cthullu-shaped-shadow of a doubt, the most repetitive writer ever, his stuff is just mindbogglingly dull. And I've read them all, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Bloch, M.R. James, etc ... I used to be a fan of this kind of thing in my teen years, and lapped it up, but for some curious reason, in the country where I grew up, you couldn't get hold of Lovecraft in the early 80's. I think that there might have even been some weird endeavor not to disseminate the works of Lovecraft, so that one would have to know a real specialist to find them, as I know that there was with the works of Aleister Crowley in that country. Anyway, one can only hope that the people behind that were protecting young impressionable minds from the horrors that Lovecraft inflicted on the language, and not from the occultish nature of his abominations.
Read anything else but Lovecraft. Dig yourself a hole in the ground in a graveyard and have a friend shovel some dirt on you and read the shapes in the ensuing mulch in your eye, but stay far away from Mr. Lovecraft. Unless you happen to like pointless, unbelievable, ham-fisted drivel by the 100 pages.
Other than that, he's the same type of writer as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Excuse me a moment, I need to get back on my chair.....
Anyone comparing Lovecraft to Poe, is frankly, crazier than Lovecraft, and that's saying something....
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All the hype that I had read and heard about it,just didn't measure up. I was disappointed at how repetitive it was, the long drawn out descriptions that added up to nothing,the very first person narrative that was devoid of any sort of suspence with no dialogue throughout. It was comparable to something that was written by a high-school student without a Thesaurus. This is the longest it's ever taken me to read a couple hundred pages.....
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I'm a big fan of HPL and try to get everything out by him. But i must say that there are many better one-volume introduction to HPL out there right now. Try The Call of Cthulhu (Penguin Modern Classics) The Call of Cthulhu (Penguin Modern Classics) This is imho the best introduction to HPL.
The stories get 5 stars, this volume gets 2.
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