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I love reading Lovecraft but the last time I read a collection of his stories I started having very strange dreams and thoughts. The stories really get into your head without you knowing it. Brilliant but in small doses. Of course anything with Cthulhu is a must read."The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft", stories by Howard Phillip Lovecraft, annotations by Leslie S. Klinger.
Ugh. Typical crap from certain types of writers nowadays.Today, finished reading Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis, and wrote this review in Amazon:
Lewis writes well and is at his best in showing Elmer Gantry having a false faith, and consciously ruining the lives of the others. The novel's reputation for controversy seems to be centered on the character of Gantry. Somehow it seems by exposing the duplicity of one minister, Lewis implicated theologically conservative Protestants in general. When actually reading the novel though, it's clear that Lewis attempts to undermine Christianity in general, which is probably why the novel sparked such controversy in its day. The character of Frank Shallard is portrayed as a heroic martyr with his denials of Christ's deity, his uncertainty about an afterlife, and various other denials and questionings of Christianity. In the end, the novel is less about hypocritical fundamentalism than about an argument in favor of a secular, anti-supernatural version of Christianity based on vague sentiments of love. This is precisely the type of Christianity today's secular elite sanctions.
That's a great book!Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King should arrive today, so I plan on starting it tonight.
I'm about halfway through it. I read several books at a time. The first two stories were really good. I'm struggling to get through the third one. I have abandoned it for a while.I finished the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and am reading The Bachman Books by Stephen King.
Just finished The Hobbit. Not sure if I'm up to reading Lord of the Rings just yet, but would like to read the Samarillion.
Other books I recently finished are The Kontiki Expedition by Thor Heyerdahl and Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K Jerome.
Gillian
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