/lit/ - Literature

>>11362522
yeah, whats up.

people who read lovecraft are so embarrassing

>dude it's stephen king but with anachronistic language that sounds sophisticated it's real literature right??

>>11362547
It's a pretty good spin on the Dunwich Horror. Better that I expected anyway.

>>11362522
Official description
>Best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe share a bond so intense that it borders on the mystical. But before Jon can declare his love for his soul mate, he is kidnapped, his plans for a normal life permanently dashed.

>Four years later, Chloe has finally given up hope of ever seeing Jon again. Then, a few months before graduation, Jon reappears. But he is different now: bigger, stronger, and with no memory of the time he was gone. Jon wants to pick up where he and Chloe left off . . . until the horrifying instant he realizes that he possesses strange powers that pose a grave threat to everyone he cares for. Afraid of hurting Chloe, Jon runs away, embarking on a journey for answers.

>Meanwhile, in Providence, Rhode Island, healthy college students and townies with no connection to one another are suddenly, inexplicably dropping dead. A troubled detective prone to unexplainable hunches, Charles “Eggs” DeBenedictus suspects there’s a serial killer at work. But when he starts asking questions, Eggs is plunged into a whodunit worthy of his most outlandish obsessions.

>In this dazzling new novel—and with an intense, mesmerizing voice—Caroline Kepnes makes keen and powerful observations about human connection and how love and identity can dangerously blur together.
I don’t get it, is this supposed to be a Lovecraftian story or not?

>>11362554
Have you read Poe?

>>11362522
I think you're looking for reddit.

>>11362565
It can't make up it's mind. At least, not in the first 200 pages.

>(official excerpt)
https://pastebin.com/1Z79YL0m
Jesus, this is some annoying prose

>>11362598
>I brung
droppped

>>11362598K
It really is, but I think it is worth pushing through the bullshit dialect to get to the real bullshit.

>>11362607
They explain the error as personal preference but it’s a little “lol quirky” for my tastes

>>11362614
Honestly, I just want good Lovecraftian shit, is it good or not?

>>11362626
I love it. The Lovecraftian stuff is perfect and the non-Lovecraftian stuff in interesting and entertaining.

>>11362639
Another book to the pile then

>>11362598
First paragraph was enough to convince me that reading this would be a complete waste of time.

>>11362569
Poe is shit too, total hack.

>>11362833
And opinion discarded

>>11362565
imagine being surrounded by beta cucks all your life and having to write this book as a rape fantasy of some big boy chad rescuing you.

>>11362836
He's right. Some of his non-fiction is interesting though.

>>11362598
>annoying prose
my mind automatically corrected that to "annoying noise", which is what it is
keep this disgusting roastie "writing" out of my /lit/ please

>>11362852
I can stand for my boy Lovecraft being called a hack but Poe is another matter, Poe could write legitimately anything he felt like writing and it would be at least an 8/10. That’s impressive given the many many stories he’s written.

>>11362859
>and it would be at least an 8/10
No it wouldn't

>>11362938
Don’t reply to me or my posts ever again

>>11362947
die frankteen

>>11362554
kys
king is apologist of mediocrity and americunt provincialism, love went beyond that, beyond everything in terms of horror.

>>11363275
don't call him "love" you sperg

>>11362626
Read The Providence by Alan Moore, not this garbage.