Duck and Cover

I'm thinking of reading Call of Cthulhu, anybody read this, think it was good?

It's good but nowhere near Lovecraft's best

:atthemountainsofmadness:

At the mountains of madness is probably his magnum opus, yes. You might want to give Ligotti and Borges a shot once you've grown tired of Big L

Read the expensive Mountains of Madness rpg scenerio book.

It was excellent.

Perhaps someday I will actually play/gm it.


Maybe we should have a DAC Book Exchange.

Mail books to each other, if the mailing vs buying could be calculated to be cost-effective.

I'm serious, it could work. Slightly.

Whenever I search predictable in the dictionary I get H.P. Lovecraft.

that's funny i get the definition of predictable maybe you should recalibrate your dictionary or overclock it and get more bauds out of it you know watt I mean, joules?

breaking nooz: ballard's short fiction is tremendously lulzy

nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels

Nicolai wrote:breaking nooz: ballard's short fiction is tremendously lulzy

:thedayofforever:

Wallace's short stories are pretty good too. Oblivion in particular. Picked it up from the library today along with Borge's collected short fiction.

Redeye wrote:Read the expensive Mountains of Madness rpg scenerio book.

It was excellent.

Perhaps someday I will actually play/gm it.


Maybe we should have a DAC Book Exchange.

Mail books to each other, if the mailing vs buying could be calculated to be cost-effective.

I'm serious, it could work. Slightly.

i have like 15-20 cthulhu scenario books, if anyone's actually interested in that. the scenarios ARE good reads, & fortunately quite adjective-lite. i still wanna play that orient express one.

tbh i've read a lot of lovecraft's short stories but i can't remember them, shit is just too much. the colour outta space? shadow over innsmouth? fuhgeddaboudit. a lot of his non-mythos stories are good too, eg. the music of erich zahn. try dem.

what's crackin', atoga

colour out of space was good lovecraft chit, mang

Fungi From Yuggoth is magical . Ther was a period of maybe three weeks when I stopped listening to music or anything and just listened to the Yuggoth audiobook over and over and over and over again.

It really creeped people out when they got in my car and that shit is playing.

I'm reading Redefining Black Film by Mark Reid and its one of the dumbest books I've ever read. It's not that its litterally dumb but that the author has some of the most robust vocabulary there ever was and I can barely understand him. He also makes up his own words, it surprises me of how much bullshit ethnic studies are.

I'm reading it for my African American Film class which I'm taking to fullfil our colleges "womens and cultural minorities" requirement.

Here is some words the guy has made up; Hybrid minstrelsy, satiric hybrid minstrelsy, and my favorite Negritude. Perhaps they weren't made up by him but he uses them a lot.

Dear god what kind of fascist college do you go to, poops?

NakedLunch wrote:Wallace's short stories are pretty good too. Oblivion in particular. Picked it up from the library today along with Borge's collected short fiction.

Totalement, Oblivion is a pretty solid collection. Better grab Brief Interviews With Hideous Men and Girl With Curious Hair when you've plowed through it. Wallace seems to have mastered the whole short story thing.

Haven't had a chance to check out any Borges outside of Labyrinths yet, but I've been intending to pick up Collected Fictions for a while now.

S4ur0n27 wrote:nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels

I watched the movie of Slaughterhouse 5, and thought that it was pretty weak. Is it better if you've read the book?

I mean, the whole movie is just a boring drift with no apparent beginning, end or direction, which I presume was the point that the guy was trying to make with him being dislocated in time and seeing life just as a "set of experiences" to which you eventually become indifferent, however I did not find the movie to be anything special. Just a big "meh".

I haven't seen the movie but the book is very bueno, been a while since I read it though.

edit: negritude 4 life

Catch-22's movie adaptation was surprisingly good. TALK ABOUT A CATCH-22 ON THAT ONE RIGHT LOL

Frater Perdurabo wrote:

S4ur0n27 wrote:nearly finished kurt vonnegut's slaughterhouse-five, and then i'll prob read swift's gulliver travels

I watched the movie of Slaughterhouse 5, and thought that it was pretty weak. Is it better if you've read the book?

I mean, the whole movie is just a boring drift with no apparent beginning, end or direction, which I presume was the point that the guy was trying to make with him being dislocated in time and seeing life just as a "set of experiences" to which you eventually become indifferent, however I did not find the movie to be anything special. Just a big "meh".

Haven't seen the movie, and from your comments you might not like the book either.

I still think it's pretty good.

Slaughterhouse Five is pretty legit although I personally think Mother Night is Vonnegut's illest to the dolla dolla billest