Reviews

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

zozosbooks's review against another edition

2.0

Boring as hell! Must have been good for its time….. but even then there’s literally no plot or character development or emotions. How can so many words say so little?

duke_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

3.0

jarofbees's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious slow-paced

2.0

Tekeli-li! What nameless preternatural aeon could compel me to enjoy this dense overwrought itty bitty tome? If only it had been shorter, or edited.

This book dragggggged, with a capital D. There were moments that captured my attention and intrigued me and it was this hope alone that got me through. 

But wait! Here comes our narrator to tell me something important. “Hey bro, you heard about these rocks? Sometimes they’re carved, sometimes they’re icy, sometimes they’re carved and icy, also sometimes they’re icy but not as icy and snow covered as they were before, also don’t even get me started on the carved icy snow covered rocks because…”, literally stop! I don’t care.

It felt like this book wanted to frustrate me to make a point, and I took that personally.

mkragelj's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

3.0

Kind of a tell-don’t-show horror with too many $15 words but it was enjoyable enough

macker305's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

kindlereads's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Nice spooky story. We discover what is happening as they are discovering it. 

clody89's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

webslingingadam's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Incredibly vivid and imaginative but not necessarily scary and in fact is a bit silly when you think about it. There are these great old ones who seem like monstrous starfish type creatures from space who are animal and vegetable, and they built a giant elaborate city where they carved art and made statues about their entire history including weather updates and the time their slave species rose up against them and were fought back into subjugation and of course Lovecraft being Lovecraft he is clearly on the side of the wise heroic slavers not the enslaved race who are truly monstrous. Oh and multiple penguin based jump scares. 

ria_sedai's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

3.5

weejman33's review against another edition

3.0

I would rather have a faithful adaptation than the shithouse film that is Prometheus.