Sunday, July 20, 2008

AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS by H.P. Lovecraft


Lovecraft hits you with a spine chilling 100 page story here. A very smart book that I wouldn't even suggest a read unless you have a college reading level at least. Sometimes it's hard to follow with the many terms he uses and big long words. It could easily confuse a normal casual reader. Don't be fooled by the 100 pages. The characters are extemely small. I for one was a little bored with this book cuz I'll admit it's an unorthodox story that bored me at parts but once I hit midway I became hooked to find out what really haunted the Mountains of Madness. I wont spoil anything but basically a group of early 1900 explorers go to Antarctica to explore and find out more about early civilizations. They find more than that. When they lose some of their own early on to mysterious reasons every one becomes paranoid in ways you couldn't believe. Even in fear they press on to look for the ancient civilizations. What they find looks to be "alien". As the explorers press on into the ancient city and the ancient building they find evil itself. Something terrifying was before them. Two of them escaped and while in the helicopter one of them sees something when he looks back. He sees something so terrifying he never talks about it. Lovecraft uses describing words and paints a perfect picture for the reader. The way he ends it is spine chilling with you never really knowing what was seen. Greatly written short story.
GRADE: C+
-C.S.

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