Mountains of Madness book review

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Mountains of Madness book review

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This is one of my favorite Lovecraft works, and also one of the most frustrating. It reveals the paradox at the heart of creativity.
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I definitely want to read this at some point. Unfortunately the local library is closed due to the Kung Flu.
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it's in the public domain

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/At_the_Mountains_of_Madness/full
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Cool. Might have to read those during my month-long furlough.
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There's some good audio adaptations as well
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The thing that strikes me is, well...despite what SFDebris said, the Shoggoths basically ARE a slave race. The elder things became concerned because Shoggoths were growing in intelligence, thinking for themselves instead of obeying mind control.

That's the sad core of this book for me. What convinces a racist, xenophobic, everything-else-ist man to see alien monsters as "human"? The condition of civilized people, to him, is defined by owning slaves.
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You're really desperately reaching there.
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Really? I mean, that's how it read to me. What's your take?
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Fuzzy Necromancer wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 11:25 am Really? I mean, that's how it read to me. What's your take?
I am mostly on your side here.

I am not sure Howard did that on a conscious level, but the transitive property of symbolism certainly works out.
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