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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
Gave up on The King in Yellow about halfway through. The first few stories were really good but then it went downhill. All style over substance.
I need a good Sci-Fi. Any suggestions?
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I really had to stick with
The King In Yellow too, and I can see why Lovecraft had this to say about him, "Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans-equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them". It's kind of cool to have a piece of horror antiquity from 1895 and while the concept of the King in Yellow is a very intriguing one, I just couldn't get into many of his stories. I wonder if it's Public Domain yet, because I could see how a lot of horror authors could take the idea and make something interesting out of it like people have done with Sherlock Holmes.
As for good Sci-Fi I'd recommend
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti
Basically if you are curious why season 2 of
True Detective sucked so much it was because Pizzolato wasn't shameless ripping this off. All that pessimist philosophy that Rust Cohle spouted in the first few episodes came from this book. A lot of it so far has been a look at an obscure Norwegian philosopher called Peter Wessel Zapffe and has been a pretty fascinating read. Probably not something to read if you're feeling suicidal though.