My continual campaign to waste tax-payers money hit it's nadir this week. I decided a particularly useless waste of time and money this week would be to read some HP Lovecraft books.
I used to read them when I was 18 or so.
I used to find them boring and monotonous then, but felt compelled to read all his works.
So, 20 years later I decided to re-read them. To see if my literary appreciation has developed over the decades.
I now find only some of them utterly tedious. I did particularly enjoy 'The Thing on the doorstep' and I enjoyed parts of 'Dagon', right up until the monster makes an appearance. Monsters are just not scary. They don't work on Doctor Who and they don't work in films. With Lovecraft, one plods through pages of description that really are somewhat pretentious and surprise its a monster at the end.
Honestly..
Rehearsal last night was interesting...Turkle was once again under the influence, singing on stage at one point!
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