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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
ive got a real soft spot for edgars classic macabre poetri and short stori, and they still slap and i love them. berenice forever is the best one. we love a womb tomb.
HOWEVER there were a good coupl of stories and his one novella that were racist as all hell. id never encountered them before and while ofc i assumed ed was racist bc duh i did NOT kno it was so ugli and blatant in so much of his work.
finalli, i also didnt kno he was funni???? like ok mr poe i see ur dry absurdist humor before absurdism even was a thing.
so mixed bag but the good stuff is still good and there were sum stories that were new to me that were also good. the bad stuff is v bad. i skipped the entire novella and a coupl of his stories bc it was just too gross
HOWEVER there were a good coupl of stories and his one novella that were racist as all hell. id never encountered them before and while ofc i assumed ed was racist bc duh i did NOT kno it was so ugli and blatant in so much of his work.
finalli, i also didnt kno he was funni???? like ok mr poe i see ur dry absurdist humor before absurdism even was a thing.
so mixed bag but the good stuff is still good and there were sum stories that were new to me that were also good. the bad stuff is v bad. i skipped the entire novella and a coupl of his stories bc it was just too gross
Lo que me gusta Edgar Allan Poe no tiene sentido, encima esta edición me encanta.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Although his greatest strength lies in horror, one can easily see in the works of Edgar Alan Poe, the inspiration for the works of Mark Twain, Jules Verne, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Of course The Tell-Tale Heart is amazing and I really liked The Masque of the Red Death too. The rest of the stories, however, I found quite disappointing. Especially the detective stories were really tedious. I enjoyed The Raven, but after that the tone of his poetry became old quite quickly.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
tense
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
3/ 5 – So that’s why everyone’s obsessed.
Reading Poe feels like meeting a celebrity you’ve technically known your whole life, but never actually spoken to. He’s one of those names that floats around so much he almost exists separately from his work. Like, I’ve “known” who Poe was forever, but this was my first time really sitting with his writing, and I get it now. I get it.
The vibes? Immaculate. Gothic, eerie, a little deranged. Every story feels like you’re sinking underwater in a velvet cloak. There’s a dreamlike quality to his writing that caught me off guard. I thought it would be dry and stiff (classic lit brainrot), but it was way more immersive than I expected.
That said, I do wish some of these stories had room to breathe. He clearly had the ideas and the atmosphere down, but I would’ve loved to see him tackle a full-length novel. I wanted more space to settle into the stories before they ended. some of them felt like really good appetizers with no entrée.
Still, the impact is undeniable. I feel like I unlocked a piece of literary lore, and I’m not mad about it.
Reading Poe feels like meeting a celebrity you’ve technically known your whole life, but never actually spoken to. He’s one of those names that floats around so much he almost exists separately from his work. Like, I’ve “known” who Poe was forever, but this was my first time really sitting with his writing, and I get it now. I get it.
The vibes? Immaculate. Gothic, eerie, a little deranged. Every story feels like you’re sinking underwater in a velvet cloak. There’s a dreamlike quality to his writing that caught me off guard. I thought it would be dry and stiff (classic lit brainrot), but it was way more immersive than I expected.
That said, I do wish some of these stories had room to breathe. He clearly had the ideas and the atmosphere down, but I would’ve loved to see him tackle a full-length novel. I wanted more space to settle into the stories before they ended. some of them felt like really good appetizers with no entrée.
Still, the impact is undeniable. I feel like I unlocked a piece of literary lore, and I’m not mad about it.