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zsuzssanna's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
3.25
Oszinten meglepett hogy hova fut ki a cselekmeny de nem jo értelemben. Sokkal jobban indult annál mint ami lett belőle
sayshara's review against another edition
Started good, but was dragging in the middle. Then I went out of town and didn't read it for several days. Now I can't get back into it.
laurenbrace's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
alexcirce's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.5
liambetts's review against another edition
3.0
Strange. Cool to see how Life of Pi was influenced by this (Richard Parker, Tiger).
ja_mehess's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
seleniangent's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.5
richardleis's review
3.0
I'm not really sure what to make of Edgar Allan Poe's only novel. It has brilliant and adventurous moments, but it also has racist, tedious, boring, deranged, and graphic and gory passages, resulting in an unholy creation with a baffling and abrupt ending (or is it an allegorical ending?) What works is how Poe can't help but to infuse the novel with a sense of the uncanny. What doesn't work are obvious narrative mistakes (uh, Poe, you can't kill that character off after earlier in the story saying he was alive years later) and sudden passages of exposition that read like an early 19th Century Wikipedia.
Nevertheless, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as baffling as it is, remains a fascinating work.
Nevertheless, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as baffling as it is, remains a fascinating work.
richardleis's review against another edition
3.0
Useful context and footnotes for a very strange and not entirely successful novel.