I am enjoying Joshi's
I Am Providence, which is perhaps the most
detailed biography of Lovecraft you could ever hope to come across, but I
wish he would resist just now and then from giving his evaluation on
every story, travelogue, poem, etc that Lovecraft wrote. And on many
stories that other people wrote as well. I like a biography to be
factual, not littered with critical comments unless there is some
genuine reason for it. I have my own opinion on the merits or otherwise
of these stories and I really don't need to have them all compared to
how closely they fit in with Joshi's preference for cosmicism. My only
gripe so far, mind. Other than this it's a great book and I have learned
a lot from it.
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