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Old 04-09-2017   #14
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Re: The Ligotti Penguin Classics book - views from fans
It's funny how I gnash my teeth like a fanboy reading some of these reviews. The negative responses have these common complaints:

-opaque prose, academic prose, cold prose, dense, long
-boring
-not scary
-too much like Lovecraft, unoriginal
-I don't even like horror, I've only read one Lovecraft story and some Poe back in high school
-where's the ending?
-I like King more

The complaint about prose is unexpected to me. I always think it has a poetic flow and the words evoke the febrile decay of fall. The coldness one also doesn't make sense.
"Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. In other words, how do you fill out an empty life? With women, books, or worldly ambitions? No matter what you do, the starting point is boredom, and the end self-destruction. The emblem of our fate: the sky teeming with worms. Baudelaire taught me that life is the ecstasy of worms in the sun, and happiness the dance of worms."
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