>Try to read patrician /lit/ to make me smarter >End up

honestly i find lovecraft harder to read than most 'patrician' /lit/
i like him, but it's awkwardly written and clumsy and i force my way through despite his flaws because i like the things he describes and the atmosphere
whereas with nabokov, pynchon, woolf, the greeks, dfw or whatever, their prose flows like oil

>>8937655
not plebby at all tbqfh. Lovecraft wastes a lot of paper because he's a pedantic writer, but I have a lot of fun with the imagery and worlds he creates. I'd say he's probably the most patrician horror novelist aside from maybe Shelley or Barker.

>>8937664
In my opinion Lovecraft was the effect of the atmosphere he lived that made his stories amazing while he himself was only a moderate writer.
Both his parents suffering greatly under it and he himself living with similar problems all his life but never to the extent of his parents gave him enough experience to write great stories.

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>>8937655
>Am I a pleb?
No

>>8938184
jesus christ

>>8938189
What?

>>8937655

Name a more boring author

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>>8937655
Read Kafka's short stories and Edgar Allen Poe's. Do this and you'll stop being a pleb.

>>8938247
Your diary desu

>>8937655
>Am I a pleb?

No, Lovecraft is canon now.