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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 30, 2020 16:27:10 GMT
Joshi is so contentious a critic that it could well be that the one bad review on amazon was written out of maliciousness - something far from unknown there. The one bad review. Out of a total of two reviews.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 30, 2020 16:32:08 GMT
Joshi is so contentious a critic that it could well be that the one bad review on amazon was written out of maliciousness - something far from unknown there. The one bad review. Out of a total of two reviews. True. Being unbiased I look forward to giving it my own objective review.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 30, 2020 17:05:53 GMT
I found a copy of The Assault of Chaos on Abebooks from a reliable bookseller, ] Horrible cover. Looks like a parody. if one found it on a crowded shelf in a dimly little bookshop priced at around 50 cents. (or 1 Euro, I guess, in your case) Nah, 50 US cent are about 60 Euro cent But the Thongor collection is print only for 19,95. No way.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 30, 2020 17:22:05 GMT
Never judge a book by its cover.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 30, 2020 17:25:30 GMT
Cauldron, have you ever looked at any of the y.t. videos of the annual Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast meetings held at the "Necromicon" gathering in Providence for Lovecraft fans? It's sort of like "the Monty Python skit from Yuggoth." I hadn't. I'm hoping this is all tongue-in-check, though I've had conversations where I struggled to convince people that HPL invented the Necronomicon ("No way, man, that's been around for centuries.") Sesqua Valley sounds like Susquehanna Valley which is where I grew up--where it flows into the Chesapeake Bay, in Maryland. Interesting. Only around half an hour from where I live these days! I found a copy of The Assault of Chaos on Abebooks from a reliable bookseller, so have ordered it. I am interested in seeing just how good or bad this is. I hope I haven't stirred up trouble by mentioning the existence of this book (well, not too much trouble, anyway). I decided to pass on it when I read that it was yet another a fictionalized account of HPL. These days I think I'd rather read a story where a young William Hope Hodgson fights sea monsters, or a middle aged Shirley Jackson fakes her death and sets out to investigate haunted houses, or an elderly Fritz Leiber battles paramentals in San Francisco.
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Post by andydecker on Jun 30, 2020 17:26:42 GMT
Never judge a book by its cover. This has never been truer than in these times. Most of contemporary covers are uniformly awful.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 30, 2020 17:38:40 GMT
That they are. Except when I design them.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 30, 2020 17:43:51 GMT
These days I think I'd rather read a story where a young William Hope Hodgson fights sea monsters, or a middle aged Shirley Jackson fakes her death and sets out to investigate haunted houses, or an elderly Fritz Leiber battles paramentals in San Francisco. I have an idea for a novel about how Sir Charles Birkin, while maintaining the façade of a high-society playboy, runs people over with a steamroller for fun. Mainly children and elderly people.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 30, 2020 18:01:09 GMT
Oh, and I am thinking of calling it STARLIGHT.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 30, 2020 18:16:34 GMT
I could end up getting sued by Charlotte Gainsbourg, something which has been an unrelated fantasy of mine for years.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jun 30, 2020 18:24:48 GMT
She would lose, of course. But thus would have begun our acquaintanceship.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 30, 2020 19:12:11 GMT
Cauldron, here's a Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast video featuring none other than Robert M. Price: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ2SgrdOt4sIt's obviously done as an elaborate gag. I was still disappointed that they read off of laptops. I mean, how... banal. Everyone knows that the unspeakable Litanies of the Great Old Ones were to be inscribed in the blood of selected venomous toads, Spawn of Tsathoggua the Nefandous, upon parchment crafted from the dried skin of shantaks slain at the Primal Hour of N'kai when a gibbous moon hangs squat and blood-red in an unholy sky. Or something like that. NOT ON SOME BLOODY NERD'S "DEVICE." Ever been to Havre de Grace? There and environs were my stomping grounds half a century ago. The cover of the Joshi novel is pretty funny. Maybe it's actually a fun parody of the extremes to which acolytes of Lovecraftianity have been known to carry things. H.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 30, 2020 19:46:32 GMT
I just played a bit of that video again (having stumbled over it several years ago) and I actually found what I could stand to listen to of Price's oration rather creepy, but perhaps not in the way intended.
Obviously everybody has their own idea of fun...
H.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 30, 2020 20:22:23 GMT
Ever been to Havre de Grace? There and environs were my stomping grounds half a century ago. I've visited Havre de Grace twice since I moved to the mid-Atlantic around nine years ago. I recall visiting a good bookstore while I was there--I hope it's still in business! I also like the town itself; it seems quirky and has a striking river setting.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jun 30, 2020 21:43:54 GMT
Dramatis personae - At the front, with the bald head and bow tie, looks like he's having a migraine, is Algernon Blackwood. Just behind Blackwood on the right, in the green military uniform and doing the heavy metal salute, is Lord Dunsany. On the left-hand side, also in green, is Arthur Machen. The woman in red is Kathleen Banigan, "love interest" for HPL. To the right of Kathleen is HPL himself. Behind Kathleen, the white haired guy in the black frock coat is MR James. Right at the back, in blue, is William Hope Hodgson. The ghostly floating head is Ambrose Bierce. I think.
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