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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed in on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing. The Dream-Quest combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankind's ability to dream.… (meer)
Series Info/Source: This is a stand alone book. I bought this on audiobook from Google Play.
Thoughts: I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator on the version I listened to (by Peter Coates) wasn't great. His narration voice is fine but he read this very fast with very little inflection in his voice and it was a bit had to follow. I normally speed audiobooks up a bit when I listen to them and I had to slow this one down.
Part of my difficulty in following this could have been the writing style. Lovecraft is very dense with a lot of adjectives and descriptions and you do have to really concentrate on what you are reading. Since I mainly listened to this on audiobook while driving, I wasn't able to concentrate the whole time and felt like I missed some of the subtly and messages in this strange little novella.
I do think this is probably one of Lovecraft's more accessible stories. I have listened to some other ones and this one was a fairly straightforward adventure tale. You just have a lot of odd god and place names thrown at you throughout and this was hard to follow on audiobook. Lovecraft is weird and intriguing but also a bit slow and dense. I did enjoy some of the insights and irony of the end of the story.
My Summary (3.5/5): Overall I am glad I read this but might re-read it at some point because I kept feeling like I was missing stuff. The narrator read this quickly and with very little inflection in his voice, and that paired with the dense descriptions and complex god and place names, made this hard to follow on audiobook. ( )
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Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times he was snatched away while he paused on the high terrace above it.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
And vast infinities away, past the Gate of Deeper Slumber and the enchanted wood and the garden lands and the Cerenarian Sea and the twilight reaches of Inquanok, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep strode brooding into the onyx castle atop unknown Kadath in the cold waste, and taunted insolently the mild gods of earth whom he had snatched abruptly from their scented revels in the marvellous sunset city.
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a horror novel by H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed in on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that comprise his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing. The Dream-Quest combines elements of horror and fantasy into an epic tale that illustrates the scope and wonder of humankind's ability to dream.
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Thoughts: I listened to this on audiobook and the narrator on the version I listened to (by Peter Coates) wasn't great. His narration voice is fine but he read this very fast with very little inflection in his voice and it was a bit had to follow. I normally speed audiobooks up a bit when I listen to them and I had to slow this one down.
Part of my difficulty in following this could have been the writing style. Lovecraft is very dense with a lot of adjectives and descriptions and you do have to really concentrate on what you are reading. Since I mainly listened to this on audiobook while driving, I wasn't able to concentrate the whole time and felt like I missed some of the subtly and messages in this strange little novella.
I do think this is probably one of Lovecraft's more accessible stories. I have listened to some other ones and this one was a fairly straightforward adventure tale. You just have a lot of odd god and place names thrown at you throughout and this was hard to follow on audiobook. Lovecraft is weird and intriguing but also a bit slow and dense. I did enjoy some of the insights and irony of the end of the story.
My Summary (3.5/5): Overall I am glad I read this but might re-read it at some point because I kept feeling like I was missing stuff. The narrator read this quickly and with very little inflection in his voice, and that paired with the dense descriptions and complex god and place names, made this hard to follow on audiobook. (