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10-27-2006, 05:33 PM
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Should read some of his work before Halloween.
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10-27-2006, 07:24 PM
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I was reading it online. Does anyone want the site? I think I can post it here! Its wonderful
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10-28-2006, 02:13 AM
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I love Poe's stuff, I have all his material. Personally I like Lovecraft better though and would recommend him to anyone who likes Poe. He was inspired by Poe himself and alot of his early stuff is modelled after Poe's work. He tends to be more centered on vague, antiquiated horror than mystery and it will leave more of a chill than Poe's work. But there is no arguing that both were awesome writers and absolute masters at what they did, besides, without Poe there is a good chance we wouldn't have Lovecraft's work (and if he did take up writing anyhow it may have been vastly different).
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10-28-2006, 03:40 AM
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Just read a book on Lovecraft.
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10-28-2006, 03:46 AM
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Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe was once a cadet at West Point? He did not fit in at all and found the entire experience there pretty terrible, so he quit after the first couple years. It's rumored that he went streaking during a formation once. Not sure if that's just urban legend or the truth. I heard also that a professor at West Point told him he should look into writing, because he was very good at it, albeit he wasn't good at much else there at the academy from what they say...
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10-28-2006, 07:29 AM
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Lol, Ryder.
Dragonscales, Lovecraft writes the worst dialogue I've ever seen. It pisses me off that his books are so good.
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10-28-2006, 07:50 AM
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I don't think Poe ever went to westpoint, I just saw a pretty nifty history channel documentary about him yesterday and didn't hear it mentioned. What EAP did have was probably the best real-life example of misery being so horrible that it goes from sad to funny for the viewers/readers. Another interesting fact is that the French tend to believe Poe is the #1 english writer of all time, even over Shakespeare. It's like he got everything he ever wanted... after he died.
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10-28-2006, 09:33 AM
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Yes he went to West Point. My bf talks about Lovecraft all the time. He tells me if I like Poe, I will like Lovecraft. I still have no idea where to find his work.
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10-28-2006, 02:01 PM
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The one thing I really didn't like about Lovecraft was that he is a rasict.
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10-28-2006, 02:03 PM
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Call him Edgar Allen Yes!
That sounded a little effeminate didn't it?
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10-28-2006, 02:03 PM
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He is? Weren't most of the writers back then rasict? And someone tell me what a Berth is?
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10-28-2006, 02:04 PM
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A berth is a bed.
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10-28-2006, 02:28 PM
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ohhh! well ok.. Thanks Shawn!
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10-28-2006, 10:22 PM
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Poe was also an artist and for a while people who knew him placed bets at which he'd end up doing. I heard that he painted his walls at West Point in a weekend and that shortly afterwards he quit attending there.
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10-29-2006, 06:30 AM
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i have no idea who this
EDGAR ALLEN POE (spelling?)
guy is.
who is he? what does he write? why do i think i have heard of him?
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