The Night Land
Hi,
I got bored with the Amrak series and never actually finished it -
but despite that they not that bad. The hardest SF book I even seen is
"The Nigth Land" by William Hope Hodgeson (I think I spelt the author name
correectly),
William Hope Hodgson. (First published in Britain 1912.)I got bored with the Amrak series and never actually finished it -
but despite that they not that bad. The hardest SF book I even seen is
"The Nigth Land" by William Hope Hodgeson (I think I spelt the author name
correectly),
I will often anyone who can read this a prize; 2 weeks in a
mental hosipital of their choice.
We own a copy of this monstrosity, if anyone would like to take up themental hosipital of their choice.
challenge. I gave up about a quarter-way through, then flicked forward for
reported speech. There isn't any.
For example:
: And afterward I lay down to my slumber, for I was greatly wearied. And I
: had chosen a place against a great rock, which was so that no creature
: might come upon me from behind. And I came easy upon sleep; for yet I did
: fix to me that I slumber only with the body; dor I did know, by the
: shining of the eyes in the darksome woods, that strange creatures abode in
: the mighty forests.
: And ere I was gone over to sleep, I thought upon Naani, as I had done much
: all that day, as though her spirit did hover near unto mine, and did
: strive pitiful to speak with me. And this I set out to you, that you
: shall know how it did seem unto this I set out to you, that you shall know
: how it did seem unto me in my thoughts and fancyings. And as I lay there,
: I put a blessing upon her, and a determination in my heart that I make a
: more desperate speed of my going, if that might be; so that I come the
: sooner to that streange and unknown place in the dead world where did
: stand the lesser Refuge. And I was then asleep in a moment.
And so on for another 200,000 words. Dull, dull, dull. Perhaps good if you
are a Vampire fan - it has the right level of teenage angst and dreary,
deadly boredom - otherwise avoid. Read Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley instead.
HP Lovecraft described it as "one of the most potent pieces of macabre
imagination ever written" - which tells you something about Lovecraft. The
man was maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad..!
Simon
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