David Cebryk’s Reviews > The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft > Status Update

Finished reading At the Mountains of Madness… which includes some of the grandest and most detailed descriptions of Lovecraft’s mythos. I can’t say that I enjoyed this story however. At least five of the central chapters go on and on in languid, superfluous language that just comes across as dry and dull. Some of the protagonist’s descriptions are simply boring and repetitive.

Now reading: In the Mountains of Madness (1931), in which Lovecraft’s descriptions of amorphous, unidentifiable creatures gives the reader an image of curiously ancient beings beyond Precambrian understanding.