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Originally Posted by Simlasa
I've seen lots of people say this and I still think it's a load of crap.
Soldiers come home all the time mentally unhinged because of what they've experienced at war. They see things that are completely outside of normal experience and I really doubt watching several hours of war movies before setting out would have spared them.
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I think there is a big difference between seeing your buddies riped in two by machinegune fire and seeing froggy going through your garbage. Part of the problem with Lovecraft was that he had a hard time living in the modern world of the 1920s and things that bothered him, naturally bother his characters. To Lovecraft, the architecture of, oh, New York City, is sanity threatneing, "The vast spires rose to such unnatural heights that a mere glimpse sent my head realling from Vertigo." Heck, Lovecraft might flip out if he came home and found a soldier going through his garbage. He was a unstable, xenophobic recluse.
Yeah, seeing a Deep One might shake someone up, but it is hardly the reality warping experience that it is to Lovecraft.
Now seeing a Deep One tossing a half eaten body into the garbage is a bit more shocking. Yet itnecessary a prelude for a trip to the funny farm. Not unless no one else sees the Deep One.
I'm a bit on thee squeemish side, and yet managed to wrok in a hospital inclduing reguarly working in the trauma ceter, OR, and makinking the occasion trips to the Morgue.
Yes, you do get accustomed to it. And yes while some soldiers do come home mentially unhinged, so do some teachers, pilicemen and truck drivers. The vast majority however, aren't in need of intensie pyschotherapy.
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Originally Posted by Zane
I kinda doubt there's gonna be a lot of JK Rowling stuff on the shelves 80 years from now.
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I kinda doubt there would be much Locvecraft stuff on the shelves now without CoC. Or that a lot of authors in the horror field considered him a major influence.
As for worst fantasy books written. Well it is mostly subjective. We might be able to be objective on technical points, but as far as style, and story themes go, it is all subjective.