| Fenril |
| (Rotting Corpse) |
| 11/19/04 10:17 PM |
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Re: What are you reading?
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"The Necronomicon" written by Abdul Alhazred and used by H.P. Lovecraft.
Anf if I read it would be a short story from H.P. Lovecraft.
I would recomment the "Call of Cthulhu" or "The Alchemist".
I thought Abdul Alhazred was HP Lovecraft's penname when he was five?
Both The Necronomicon and its writer, Abdul, are literary inventions from Lovecraft, including the essay were he reveals the story of the Necronomicon (he's writing a fictional essasy, in the vein of Borges and other fantasy writers). All books claiming to be the Necronomicon were written after Lovecraft's dead, trough it's not clear who wrote most of them (the writers from Lovecraft's circle, perhaps?)
I'm currently reading Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh, and Paradise Lost, by John Milton. The latter concerns the adventures of Satan before the creation of mankind and Eve's discovery of reason (which then leads to damnation). Very good... Trainspotting is also good, but somehow not as fun (or as funny) as the movie.