Hi guys
I never really liked reading, maybe because I hadn't find something that I was interested in. The last year I started reading books because a friend recomended it to me. I read The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, both from Dan Brown (actually I read them in the wrong order lol). They were fine, but not really THAT fine. But a few months ago, I saw an image about Cthulhu. I had heard the name and things about it, but never found something clear ( I remember that my grandparents had a dog called Cthulhu haha). So I searched and found that the origin was in the books of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, starting by The Call of Cthulhu. Obviously I started reading it, and then other novels and short novels from the same author related to this fictional mythology. Cthulhu is a deity from a race from space called the Great Old Ones. They lived long ago and were very huge. The remnants of this culture are supposedly sank in the ocean. The descriptions of lovecraft are really awesome and shocking. He talks about green stone structures, putrefactive smells and people going crazy and hearing voices in unknown languages that talk about the great Cthulhu and the city of R'lyeh, something like "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn". The interesting fact is that Lovecraft wrote more than fiction. He said that there are things in this world (and in the universe) that we don´t know, and someday, when we find it, all the truth will be revealed, giving a "chance" to connect this fiction to reality. In the beggining, I wasn´t really sure about reading books written more than 70 years ago, but now I can say they are a lot better than many other books written in this century.
Sounds interesting!!
ReplyDeleteI've never read Lovecraft but he sounds like a great storyteller. Lots of Chileans seem to like him & Edgar Allan Poe (who I haven't read either)
ReplyDeleteSound very interesting. A lot of recent books aren't as interesting as the old ones, so I get your point
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