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Topic: Like A.C. Doyle? Like H.P. Lovecraft?
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 10-27-2005 01:37:01 AM
Well, if you do, then you must pick up Shadows Over Baker Street, an anthology of alternate-reality Sherlock Holmes tales with a Lovecraftian twist. "A Study in Emerald," by Neil Gaiman, is the intro story and worth the full price of the book, IMNSHO.

Buy it!

Edit: deleted optional comma for ease of reading.

Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 10-27-2005 at 01:42 AM.

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Mr. Parcelan
posted 10-27-2005 01:54:55 AM
I went ahead and ordered it on your recommendation, but if this lead doesn't pan out, IT'S YOUR BADGE.
Bloodsage
Heart Attack
posted 10-27-2005 01:57:50 AM
You are the man.

I'm about half-way through it, and it's pretty good. Honestly, Gaiman's story is one of the best I've read. It's 100% true to form for both Doyle and Lovecraft. . .and a few minutes after reading it, you're going to drop what you're doing and say, "Ooooh. . . ."

To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

--Satan, quoted by John Milton

Mr. Parcelan
posted 10-27-2005 02:00:25 AM
I'm pretty much buying it because I've been starved for any sort of good fiction. For the record, anything by John Marco isn't all that great.

Stuff by Jack Whyte is pretty slick, though.

Alaan
posted 10-27-2005 02:23:02 AM
Relatedly, "Shoggoth's Old Peculiar" is a pretty great short story by Gaiman in his book Smoke and Mirrors.


"Well," confided the taller one. "Any day now, Great Cthulhu(currently impermanently deceased), who is our boss, will wake up in his undersea living-sort-of quarters."

"And then," said the shorter one, "he will stretch and yawn and get dressed--"

"Probably go to the toilet, I wouldn't be at all surprised."

"Maybe read the papers."

"--And having done all that, he will come out of the depths and consume the world utternly."

Ben found this unspeakable funny. "Like a ploughman's," he said.

"Exactly."

Alaan fucked around with this message on 10-27-2005 at 02:23 AM.

MorbId
Pancake
posted 10-27-2005 02:35:46 AM
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar is fantastic. "I, Cthulhu" is also pretty amusing. That one's on Neil Gaiman's website.
LeMiere
posted 10-27-2005 04:00:31 AM
It'll be on my birthday wishlist. Sounds rather exciting.
Gunslinger Moogle
No longer a gimmick
posted 10-27-2005 12:16:05 PM
quote:
MorbId said this, then charged the door while shouting "CHONGO LONGO!":
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar is fantastic. "I, Cthulhu" is also pretty amusing. That one's on Neil Gaiman's website.

Last I checked, so was "A Study in Emerald." Had to read it a second time before I got it....not knowing much about Holmes didn't help matters.




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posted 10-27-2005 12:42:04 PM
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posted 10-28-2005 07:53:34 PM
Once i've read Chromophobia, Henri Cartier Bresson's biography and the stuff i'm supposed to read for my degree then i'll be right on it. It sounds fascinating.
Lyinar Ka`Bael
Are you looking at my pine tree again?
posted 10-28-2005 09:24:49 PM
That sounds really good


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Ozimander
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posted 10-30-2005 01:41:18 PM
I picked it up a while ago. It's pretty good.

And Bloodsage is right, the Gaiman story is definitely worth the price of admission.

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