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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
For what it's worth, I actually really liked "Awake..." (original novella) too, and I think that I recommended it to Robert in some other thread. It flows like a Greek tragedy, and stylistically it is much closer to Gene Wolfe than to Hodgson (which is a good thing).
It's a shame that Wright is the way he is, since he's probably the only genuine talent among the sad/rabid puppy crowd. | |||||||||||
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
The Avalon Brantley is brilliant and compulsory reading for any Hodgson fan.
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
I definitely plan to check her novel out. Wish that rest of her work was more easily available, but I suppose there is no sense in hoping for something like that given her tragic passing.
BTW, nobody answered my earlier inquiry about John B. Ford's Hodgsonian stories. Some of them can be found online, like this one: http://talestoterrify.com/tales-to-t...d-rick-kennet/ | |||||||||||
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
Hidden X wrote: "For what it's worth, I actually really liked "Awake..." (original novella) too, and I think that I recommended it to Robert in some other thread. It flows like a Greek tragedy, and stylistically it is much closer to Gene Wolfe than to Hodgson (which is a good thing)."
That is an excellent comparison, it does have a Wolfe-esque quality (even down to the unreliable narrator)! | |||||||||||
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
Hidden X wrote, "BTW, nobody answered my earlier inquiry about John B. Ford's Hodgsonian stories. Some of them can be found online, like this one:
http://talestoterrify.com/tales-to-t...d-rick-kennet/" Ford's Hodgsonian stories are excellent. "The Haunted Ocean" is a particularly terrifying Sargasso Sea sequence. | |||||||||||
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Nemonymous wrote, "The Avalon Brantley is brilliant and compulsory reading for any Hodgson fan."
I've just started this work and am already deeply immersed in a wonderful writing style. Can't wait to see where this goes! | |||||||||||
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05-31-2017 | #7 |
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Been eyeing it for a while. Looks like something I might enjoy.
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
So, erm... looks like Wright felt like doing some Ligotti-bashing.
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Re: The William Hope Hodgson thread
I'm sure the author has insightful things to say about a wide variety of topics, but this kind of shallow scholasticism is to be avoided, and it hardly refutes the basic worldview espoused by Ligotti. EDIT: Not only that, Ligotti made it quite clear that even the act of writing fatalistic, pessimistic literature is an act of affirmation. If we hold that against him, then we must accuse Christians of contradicting themselves whenever they sin. Of course, both contradict themselves. But these are contradictions pertaining to existence, not contradictions happening in the mind. The blog post itself was inspired by a comment made by someone there who openly as well as humbly admits that they have not read CATHR in toto. | |||||||||||
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~ Clark Ashton Smith, "The Devotee of Evil" |
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06-01-2017 | #10 |
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I'm not sure I agree with all of Ligotti's conclusions, but every refutation I have read, even from people I admire, has appeared to be intellectually lazy and glib compared to how meticulously crafted Ligotti's argument is. I don't have any issue with John C. Wright or Laird Barron, but they don't do themselves any favours by trying to appear smarter than Ligotti. This goes for every criticism of Ligotti's belief system I have read. |
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