What are you reading?

[edinatlanta]

You people are nerds.

 

[Fueco]

 

[imatlas]

Anything in particular you would recommend from him, that's in print?

I have the following 3 on my list for things I might pick up in the February book sale:

- though I haven't checked yet if there's any overlap between these...

The Zothique stories (which include The Dark Eidolon) got me into him in the first place. Early version of a “Dying Earth” type sequence, a la Vance or Wolfe.

His poetry is of an excessively florid late Romantic style. It can be a lot to wade through but has its own charms.

 

[double00]

I once came across a letter to the editor of one of Lovecraft’s “amateur journalism” magazines, complaining about how racist he was. The letter was written in 1918!

i find lovecraftian *weirdness* sort of tiresome . i'd rather read clive barker or Poe .

 

[SixOhNine]

After I watched John Carter, I decided to read all of the Barsoom books, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I'm on the second, Gods of Mars. The writing is a bit turn of the century florid, but he's a good storyteller and the pace is quick.

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Highly recommend