The book starts with present day Theo in a hotel, where he begins recounting some memories that lead up to how he got in his current predicament. However to me personally, it was a tedious read and I didn’t care for the characters or plot either. I first read this book because of the many raving reviews it had it even has a 3.88 average star-rating on Goodreads. There are many parts which I did not like as well as many aspects of this book that weren’t enjoyable to me. I’m seriously debating between a 2 ½ and a 3 star rating. However, in the end, I don’t feel that it deserved my reading it and the ride that it took me through wasn’t enjoyable. I almost put the book down at least twice and DNF’d it, but decided to continue as I wanted to see how it ended. The Goldfinch was slowly starting to weigh me down with every flip of the page I gave it on my Kindle.
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Thankfully, ‘Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth’ doesn’t give me that feeling but it does leave me with the sense that there was something lacking, that the stories within were relying on Lovecraft’s work to give the stories credibility, rather than the stories standing on their own. Sprague de Camp ‘Conan the Liberator’-type way a great author in his own right who seemed to totally miss the mark of what makes Conan great. I get the feeling that I’m going to be horribly disappointed in a L. I always get nervous whenever I read stories influenced or inspired by one of the greats – I get even more nervous when the work is directly related to the original work of the author. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” in which a young man goes to an isolated, desolate fishing village in Massachusetts, and finds that the entire village has interbred with strange creatures that live beneath the sea, and worship ancient gods.' 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