Book Details
| Title: |
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Lovecraft Country |
| Author: |
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Matt Ruff |
| Times Read: |
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1 |
| Last Read: |
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12.04.16 |
Other Books Read By This Author (1)
- The Destroyer of Worlds
Notes History
| Date Read |
Note |
| 12.04.16 | This is a take on Lovecraftian horror turned on its ear by setting it in 1955 and featuring black protagonists. The author finds several ways to play around with the form, like having all the racist Jim Crow stuff is notably scarier than the monsters and magic and whatnot. Also, each chapter is pretty long and titled as a short story and follows a different member of this one main family and how they come into contact with this crazy stuff. The net effect feels like inter-related short stories where you have to glean the overall plot from side-arcs during each segment. I really liked this structure. In fact, I really liked the whole book. I thought it was a great take on Lovecraft, updated and contextualized and presented from a drastically different point of view. I thought it was great. |
