Neonomicon by Alan Moore, et al.

I read a couple of good reviews of this book -- plus I like Lovecraft and it's written by Alan Moore -- so I requested that the library purchase it. I apologize. I wasn't surprised by the sex and violence because, again, it's Alan Moore. I was surprised that I didn't care about the characters. At first, I disliked them. By the end, I couldn't even summon up that much feeling for them. They are universally racist and misogynistic. (Maybe that's supposed to be a comment about Lovecraft himself. Maybe Moore was trying to capture that feel from the original stories. I don't know. I do know that I found it off-putting.) We know little about any of the characters, except that the female FBI agent is a recovering sex addict. Lest you forget, poor reader, it's mentioned every couple of pages. The book's premise, that Lovecraft was writing about real aliens and a real threat with cults that have survived to modern times, is interesting. It could have been great. Unfortunately, it wasn't even good.