10-25-2018, 01:23 AM
I always hear that Lovecraft is a horrible writer. But I think it is that style that makes him a solid, serious writer. I don't laugh or mock when I read Lovecraft. I like reading literary criticism, absorb it all, digest it, circulate it. Then reject it. Those rules and opinions and standards are only barely conscious when I read. And I believe everything I read as I'm reading it, with critical thought coming later. I think that's a good way to make it through a book. It is for me.