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Seconding EB's recommendation for WHH's House on the Borderland for this kind of nonsense and also throwing in Arthur Machen - try The Great God Pan. M.R James wrote a lot of great stuff about stuffed-shirt academics digging up scary artifacts and regretting it when eldritch horrors come for them.
It's not quite 'Lovecraft style', but I think you might enjoy Alan Garner's stuff. His most recent book is Treacle Walker - it's short and pacey and I think if you gave it a go, you'd see why I thought of it all the same - it takes the Welsh countryside and defamiliarises it into something frightening. Starve Acre by Andrew Michael Hurley might interest you too.
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I have now finished the penultimate year of my english literature degree and fuck me I never want to pick another book up ever again. Smash the printing presses! Burn the trees! Melt all the rare earth elements that would otherwise be used in the manufacture of ebooks! Absolute shite. I usually switch to graphic novels if I can't do text reading and even that is beyond me right now.
I did manage to struggle through What Survives by M. Amelia Eikli recently, which I enoyed. It's very "debut novel", but she's got a fantastic line in grief and bereavement that I've not seen tackled all that well in most post-apoc. A lot of the genre just glosses over the emotional effects, goes straight for the roaming cannibals and whatnot, but Eikli completely avoids all that and just focuses on this one character losing everyone. It's gut-wrenching, gorgeously-written grief.
Well done for making it through Ulysses, @markyp ! What ill-advised doorstop are you tackling next?
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Had to scroll way too many pages for someone to post this gag.
I'll listen to the scientists on nutrition before I listen to Pete Townshend, I think 💅
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Oh, fair enough. I will take myself off to the Judging Other People's Marriages thread and judge someone else then :D
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... if your wife is so determined that she wants such a niche driving instructor, why isn't she the one doing all the work to find one?
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I always get that wrong too!
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I'm definitely getting to the age where all my heroes are toppling one by one. Can't believe he pulled off that bait-and-switch releasing Jericho Sirens just a few years ago, and then snatching! His! Very! Existence! From us!
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Get them a la-z-boy lounger and a hot tub, maybe some nice tickets to a West End show
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Perhaps some kind of massage device
I completely misinterpreted this and thought you were making a recommendation for something Sparky could buy for his foxes :D
He knows perfectly well what "penultimate" means, he's just trying to publicly catch me out on wrongsaying big words, so I don't get Ideas Above My Station.
Joke's on him, though! I've had Ideas Above My Station since I was a toddler!