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This should be good!

This one was a snoozer for me hopefully you guys get more out of it. Lovecraft in general is to slow for my tastes.

I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!

Latasha wrote: "I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!"

I sincerely hope everything falls in place for him to make the movie. That would be awesome!

M.E. wrote: "Latasha wrote: "I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!"

I sincerely hope everything falls in place for h..."

We could have a group movie night!

As much as I love Lovecraft Mythos, I am not a huge fan of the source material. This one was particularly dull. There is a lot of great information though.

The audiobook is available on Hoopla so I'll give it a-go. Yeah, I've never read Lovecraft. Wow!

Latasha wrote: "I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!"

Studios are never going to give him the money he wants for MoM, so you may as well go ahead and read it and enjoy.

Alan wrote: "Latasha wrote: "I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!"

Studios are never going to give him the money he..."

nope. i refuse to give up. i heard it was cause he wanted an R rating. either way, i would love for him to get to make this movie.

I've never done a Lovecraft audiobook. I see there are a couple versions. Is anyone else listening to the one narrated by Caden Vaughn?

Lance wrote: "I've never done a Lovecraft audiobook. I see there are a couple versions. Is anyone else listening to the one narrated by Caden Vaughn?"

I haven't, but I recommend the one narrated by Edward Herrmann.

M.E. wrote: "Lance wrote: "I've never done a Lovecraft audiobook. I see there are a couple versions. Is anyone else listening to the one narrated by Caden Vaughn?"

I haven't, but I recommend the one narrated b..."

Thanks! I'll have to find it.

I can't find the Herrmann one so I'll be listening to the Caden Vaughn version too.

It may be one of those "only available in the US" copyright issue things. In the US Audible.com it's the most popular version I saw. I can't find the one by Caden Vaughn. Let me know what you guys think of that version. I'm curious.

M.E. wrote: "It may be one of those "only available in the US" copyright issue things. In the US Audible.com it's the most popular version I saw. I can't find the one by Caden Vaughn. Let me know what you guys ..."

The Vaughn version's free on YouTube - I'm booking it in for myself on Wednesday and Thursday this week when the flying monkeys are at school and the house is nice and peaceful....

Melanie wrote: "M.E. wrote: "It may be one of those "only available in the US" copyright issue things. In the US Audible.com it's the most popular version I saw. I can't find the one by Caden Vaughn. Let me know w..."

Oh yeah, Vaughn sounds decent. The Horror Babble version on Youtube sounds like it might be good too.

M.E. wrote: "Melanie wrote: "M.E. wrote: "It may be one of those "only available in the US" copyright issue things. In the US Audible.com it's the most popular version I saw. I can't find the one by Caden Vaugh..."

Oh I loooove HorrorBabble. I've listened to many classics on his channel.

Lance wrote: "I've never done a Lovecraft audiobook. I see there are a couple versions. Is anyone else listening to the one narrated by Caden Vaughn?"

Yep. I am.

Jessica wrote: "I did like this story, but I have to agree with others that it can be slow and dull. He's good at describing things but I can't help but feel that Lovecraft is dry at times. I think he's just bette..."

I hadn't revisited At the Mountains of Madness since I was a kid (maybe thirteen?), and although the intricate details of the story now escape me, I still remember how the book made me feel.

I'm currently about 45% into the Caden Vaughn reading, and I don't think my mindset has changed that much down the years.

I love the premise, and for lengthy periods the story has had me hooked. Now, though, i feel like it's running low on gas and something memorable needs to happen.

My first Lovecraft, and the narrator on the copy I've got from Overdrive is William Roberts. He seems pretty perfect for the role.

I had fun googling depictions of the creatures tonight. I had an image in my mind, but it was fun to see what others thought, and drew.

Angelina wrote: "My first Lovecraft, and the narrator on the copy I've got from Overdrive is William Roberts. He seems pretty perfect for the role.

I had fun googling depictions of the creatures tonight. I had an ..."

I really like the different interpretations artists come up with as well.

I've been geeking out over a National Geographic 1932 map of Antarctica I found online and been plotting out the course of the expedition and roughly where the mountains are. I have a thing for maps.

If anyone else is interested it's you can download the full resolution one from this page: http://mountainsofmadness.org/keeper-...

The 1931 map link on the same page is also really interesting and has more detail on Ross Island and Mounts Erebus and Terror.

Thanks, M.E.

This was my first time reading H.P. as well. >.> I don't know why it's taken me this long... I love creature horror and I love 30's era pulps, so I don't know why I was dragging my feet on him...

Anyways... I love the premise. So much fun. To me, sometimes H.P. gets too hung up on details we don't necessarily need...? Like, he went way to deep with all the science terms of what they were looking for in the beginning to where it basically just started sounding like a college lecture from a science professor. The characters were a bunch of college academics, so I guess it was fitting, but at the same time... that doesn't make for the most exciting reading 100% of the time. >.> Other times, I was a little miffed that he had a serious LACK of details. And yeah, I get that things were so horrible they were indescribable and it leaves it up to your own imagination, blah blah yeah yeah, but, I would have liked a little bit more details towards the end. If you could over load us with details in the beginning, you can give use a bunch at the end too.

I was surprised that (view spoiler)[ that the Old Ones were not the bad guys and that it was the Others that were so dangerous. (hide spoiler)] I was really really curious to know more about the Others. They were pretty creepy. I just kept thinking of something squishy like The Blob. D:

Also.... I'm dying to know what is up at the top of the one mountain area that the Old Ones where scared to go up, the mountain top that was always covered by fog. WTF was up that mountain?? :O

Latasha wrote: "I refuse to read or listen to this story until my love, Guillermo Del Toro makes the movie version of it HE wants. Y’all have fun!"

I still remember the first time I read Mountains I thought to myself 'damn, this would make a great del Toro movie," and about a weak later he actually announced that Mountains will be his next project. I was so excited just to have it all come crumbling down a few months later :(

Latasha wrote: "nope. i refuse to give up. i heard it was cause he wanted an R rating. either way, i would love for him to get to make this movie. "

He wanted 120 million for the film but the studio would only give him 40 if it was going to be R rated. If he wanted the full 120 they wanted him to commit to making it PG13. So it was either PG13 or a third of the budget and that's why he walked away from the project.

I think our best bet at the moment is hoping Netflix will give him the money if his stop-motion take on Pinocchio is a success. But even then WB could just continue sitting on the rights.

It breaks my heart too.

Ami wrote: "This was my first time reading H.P. as well. >.> I don't know why it's taken me this long... I love creature horror and I love 30's era pulps, so I don't know why I was dragging my feet on him...

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Yes, get used the long-winded waffling! Many of his stories are like that and can make them a wee bit very tedious at times. Better ones IMHO are The Statement of Randolph Carter, and one of my all time faves A Shadow Over Innsmouth. It has more action, less waffle.

Hm, I'm about to start with the MoM audiobook. Last time I read it I really liked it. Let's see what ~9 years have done to my capacity to withstand 'long-winded waffling'! :P

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I still like it. Maybe not as enamoured with the book as the first time around but still gets me hooked.

For me what lets Lovecraft get away with the dry science talk and bookkeeping is the stark contrast that arises when Dyer is faced with the horrors of the mountains. Someone so meticulous and detailed in his account and of well-educated knowledge still lacks the words to properly describe what he experienced. It effectively emphasizes the complete and utter strangeness and alien nature of what he encountered.

Listened to the Jon Bennett narration. Strangely, I feel like around Chapter 11 either he had a cold or someone else took over entirely. I loved his voice before the "cold" took over--the story, not so much. The audiobook is what carried me through to the end; otherwise, I don't know if I would have finished it.