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I solemnly believe that it's the cool little things that get you in the right mood to swallow all the big important things in a story.

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Friday Five: Make You All Proud Edition

A good day to all my friends! I’m writing this the night before in a fit of unprecedented efficiency while listening to the Hamilton soundtrack (I’m sure that some of you now know exact…
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The Wheel of Time’s Value

(spoilers for days. I’m mostly assuming you’ve read it) I’ve been doing a lot of fantasy history and theory reading recently. One of the commonalities I’ve found is a certai…
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A terrific blog-post, Dan, I enjoyed it a great deal.

I love At the Mountains of Madness - it's my favorite novella, and is one of the few works that I re-read regularly (every other year; I'm due for a re-read this fall).

AtMoM inspires awe in the reader, and the scope of Lovecraft's imagination is thrilling. There's just nothing else like this work; not even The Colour Out of Space, or The Shadow Out of Time affect or thrill me the way this one does.

Anyway, great post, and I enjoyed the wide-ranging scope of your writing in it, as well. :)
 
Thanks so much CC! What a great comment - I hope it was clear how much fun I had with this post. Fun being a relative term, of course...

I definitely will re-read AtMoM again, though I'm still working my way through Lovecraft's output so will probably focus on other aspects of the mythos first.
 
Though admitting it is like a draught of the bitterest gall, I have to agree that's a good read, Dan. I haven't read much Lovecraft but Mountains of Madness is definitely the one that has most stuck with me, even more than The Call of Cthulhu. I think it's his masterpiece.
 
There's a brilliant audiobook of AtMoM, done in the style of the Orson Welles 1930s War of the Worlds serial, with crackly radio broadcasts, news bulletins and a cast of radio actors. The CD version also comes with paraphernalia supposedly from the Antarctic exploration team ie maps, notes, sketches of the ancient city etc. Very cool indeed.

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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre® - At the Mountains of Madness

Lovecraft's thrilling tale of horror in the Antarctic is brought to life in the style of a 1930s radio drama with a huge cast, music and sound effects.
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The Evil Cat Book Tag

Here is a brand new book tag, developed in collaboration with my comrade in cursed, Para of To Other Worlds. It was inspired by seeing a book tag based on cats elsewhere and thinking “goodnes…
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The Eye of the World Readalong: Chapter One to Chapter Fifteen

(Spoilers are total) The Wheel of bloody Time eh. We all know of it. Many of us have opinions of it. Strong opinions. I have to say as someone who read it long ago, I sometimes feel confused as to …
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The Light Fantastic by Sir Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic, Pratchett’s second Discworld novel, cleaves closely to the model of The Colour of Magic in many ways but with notable improvements in most respects other than the amount …
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The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens

Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! This time, we’re looking at a book written by a woman considered by some to be the mother of dark fantasy, and maybe the first American woman to…
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The Big Peat said:
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The Eye of the World Readalong: Chapter One to Chapter Fifteen

(Spoilers are total) The Wheel of bloody Time eh. We all know of it. Many of us have opinions of it. Strong opinions. I have to say as someone who read it long ago, I sometimes feel confused as to …
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The Light Fantastic by Sir Terry Pratchett

The Light Fantastic, Pratchett’s second Discworld novel, cleaves closely to the model of The Colour of Magic in many ways but with notable improvements in most respects other than the amount …
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The Citadel of Fear by Francis Stevens

Welcome to the next installment in my Retro Reviews! This time, we’re looking at a book written by a woman considered by some to be the mother of dark fantasy, and maybe the first American woman to…
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How are you finding time to read and write all this stuff?
 
A surreal type thing based on an entry I put into the labyrinth challenge -hopefully it doesn't mess with the guessing game (can't see how, but then again there are some very sharp minds about on this forum):
 
HareBrain said:
Yeah, I've been meaning to get addicted to that.
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The trick is to get and get addicted to something else instead.

Juliana said:
I was hoping for something like time-turners or a successful cloning experiment...
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I wish!

Dan Jones said:
That's brilliant, well done!

Also, snap. I've also just started Ishiguro's The Buried Giant (although I really should be reading the books we're doing for the podcast...) how are you getting on with it?
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Finding it a bit dull and repetitive to be honest. But you might like it a lot better than me, I think.
 
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