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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 12:38 am 
 

I know I failed mine when I came back to At the Mountains of Madness as an adult a few months ago.

I rate it as Lovecraft's worst work.

As a kid, I assumed that the writer must know so much more than me that my mind was just too small to contemplate the awesome horror.

As an adult, I recognize a writer who is trying to scare me with his vocabulary rather than with his story.

(Not the point of your post, I realize.)  :salut:


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:37 am 
 

1975 Quest of the Magic Ring (for you Tolkien boardgame fans)

Good description, sad about the box split.

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:09 am 
 

FormCritic wrote:I know I failed mine when I came back to At the Mountains of Madness as an adult a few months ago.

I rate it as Lovecraft's worst work.

As a kid, I assumed that the writer must know so much more than me that my mind was just too small to contemplate the awesome horror.

As an adult, I recognize a writer who is trying to scare me with his vocabulary rather than with his story.

(Not the point of your post, I realize.)  :salut:


ATMOM is all about mood, description and atmosphere...nothing really happens, and the story ends with the narrator hauling ass out of there!!!

But I would have to rate Whisperer in Darkness as the "classic" Lovecraft I really can't stand. Stupidest narrator in the entirety of horror fiction. And a payoff that I guessed way before the supposed academic Wilmarth did.

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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:50 am 
 

Black Seal 1, 2 & 3

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Seller has some other interesting stuff.  :D


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 2:13 pm 
 

These are coming up a lot more often (compared to nearly never) since pdfs became available.


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:52 pm 
 

red_bus wrote:Seller has some other interesting stuff.  :D


No he doesn't ;)


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:36 pm 
 

red_bus wrote:Seller has some other interesting stuff.  :D


These are not the droids you are looking for...   :)

Move along. Move along.  :)

  


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Post Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 9:37 pm 
 

grodog wrote:
red_bus wrote:Seller has some other interesting stuff.  :D


No he doesn't ;)


Hey grodog,

Oh dear, I hope we're not going to be outbidding each other...  8O

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 10:37 am 
 

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grodog wrote:
No he doesn't ;)


Hey grodog,

Oh dear, I hope we're not going to be outbidding each other...  8O


That depends on whether  you want Sosostris or not  :wink:


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:56 pm 
 

grodog wrote:
That depends on whether  you want Sosostris or not  :wink:


I am unsure what it is, but my problem is that if you guys want it I should probably want it too. This is how I foresee myself going broke :)

In all seriousness, the best part of this forum is finding out about new things that I had never known existed.

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 2:21 pm 
 

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I am unsure what it is, but my problem is that if you guys want it I should probably want it too. This is how I foresee myself going broke :)


Nogrod did you hear that EVERYONE on the Acaeum just bought a CASE of 50 Starbases? Truth. Lucky I got a couple of these tucked away, but for the right price...

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 3:36 pm 
 

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Nogrod did you hear that EVERYONE on the Acaeum just bought a CASE of 50 Starbases? Truth. Lucky I got a couple of these tucked away, but for the right price...

Mike B.


Wow, what a good deal. How many Starbases in a case? 2000? 3000?

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Post Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 2:28 pm 
 

Nogrod wrote:
grodog wrote:That depends on whether  you want Sosostris or not  :wink:


I am unsure what it is, but my problem is that if you guys want it I should probably want it too. This is how I foresee myself going broke :)


LOL.  Surely, down that path lieth madness!

FYI, Sosostris is a chapbook containing a single short story written by John Tynes, and inspired by Robert Chambers' treatment of the King in Yellow.  

Nogrod wrote:In all seriousness, the best part of this forum is finding out about new things that I had never known existed.


Absolutely!  :D


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Post Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 5:52 pm 
 

Underworld Publishing Gladestrom $25 BIN @  
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Post Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:14 am 
 

FormCritic wrote:I know I failed mine when I came back to At the Mountains of Madness as an adult a few months ago.

I rate it as Lovecraft's worst work.

As a kid, I assumed that the writer must know so much more than me that my mind was just too small to contemplate the awesome horror.

As an adult, I recognize a writer who is trying to scare me with his vocabulary rather than with his story.

(Not the point of your post, I realize.)  :salut:


Wow, At The Mountains of Madness is one of Lovecraft's best works. It isn't a small mind that fails to appreciate Lovecraft's work, just one that operates in a different way than they bulk of his readers. It also isn't Lovecraft's vocabulary in the same way it isn't the type of paint used by Monet, it is the way that vocabulary (and that paint) is used by the artist. Lovecraft isn't trying to scare anyone with vocabulary, he uses imagination which exists in different quantities and qualities in us all. Sad that such a rich story fails to touch anyones imagination.


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Post Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 8:12 am 
 

Delta Green - Eyes Only. Lowish BIN in the UK. These have been coming down in price, in fact I think they have recently been selling for less than this (which maybe a year or so ago would have been reasonably good puurchase).

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:26 am 
 

red_bus wrote:Delta Green - Eyes Only. Lowish BIN in the UK. These have been coming down in price, in fact I think they have recently been selling for less than this (which maybe a year or so ago would have been reasonably good puurchase).

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That's a very good price. If I didn't have one I would snap it up. I wonder what is driving the prices of Delta Green items downwards?

  

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Post Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 12:09 pm 
 

Hi,

theyre being republished at the end of the year, arent they?

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