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forwardslash  ·  3152 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: August 10th: What are you reading this week?

My wife and I still have about 2 hours to go in the Armada audiobook, also randomly listening to H.P. Lovecraft stories. I had heard that some of his stories were racist, but damn, I didn't realize how racist; really jarring.





rinx  ·  3152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I had no idea he was racist! Any stories particularly bad? I haven't read much Lovecraft

forwardslash  ·  3152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is one in particular which I just couldn't finish, The Rats in the Walls, where there is a cat named N****er man and is mentioned so much. Some revisions have it renamed to Black Tom, but the audio book I have didn't. All in all there are still a number of great stories, you just have to sigh and shake your head when the only non-white characters are useful idiots who dig up corpses for the more enlightened white characters.

rinx  ·  3152 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've never liked Lovecraft but will give that a skim; sounds educational. My problem is I don't think he's aged well, the occult just isn't scary to me anymore. I recently read Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer, if you haven't read it you might like it! Similar building horror but a more modern take.