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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Complicated
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
"Cărăbușul de aur" a fost o lectură plăcută - foarte interesant cum descifrarea unui text a fost integrată într-o poveste drept nucleul unui fir narativ palpitant. Aceasta este singura poveste pe care o recomand din întreg volumul.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
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Metzengerstein
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Bérénice
Morella
Ligeia
La Chute de la maison Usher
William Wilson
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Le Portrait ovale
Le Masque de la mort rouge
Le Mystère de Marie Roget
Le Puits et le pendule
Le Cœur révélateur
Le Scarabée d’or
Le Chat noir
L’Enterrement prématuré
La Lettre volée
La Vérité sur le cas de M. Valdemar
Metzengerstein
Manuscrit trouvé dans une bouteille
Bérénice
Morella
Ligeia
La Chute de la maison Usher
William Wilson
Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue
Le Portrait ovale
Le Masque de la mort rouge
Le Mystère de Marie Roget
Le Puits et le pendule
Le Cœur révélateur
Le Scarabée d’or
Le Chat noir
L’Enterrement prématuré
La Lettre volée
La Vérité sur le cas de M. Valdemar
Not sure I can rate it any differently. I mean, it's Poe. Not everything was great. Some of it was awful, and I admit to having to listen to Eureka and the narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. They just were so long and not my thing. Still, Poe had some great stories and poems and his influence has been so great in the world of literature that you can't help but be in awe. I learned a lot about Poe as a person by reading his entire works. He's not what I thought. He's more complex than his most popular stories would suggest and you can see what really interested him.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I started reading this volume on Halloween night 2023; I finished it seven months later. This was my first time through the COMPLETE Poe and, frankly, the journey was occasionally dull. Sure, the highlights of The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven and others are rightfully well-known and quite good, particularly for their time--but who else has suffered through "Eureka: a Prose Poem" or "The Domain of Arnheim" or a dozen other dull-blade fictions gathered here? Poe occasionally requires fortitude and endurance. But there are plenty of rewards to be found here, too--a surprising faux Rocky Mountain explorer's journal ("Julius Rodman") and of course Poe's greatest work (you'll have to pry me with a crowbar from that opinion): "Arthur Gordon Pym." This latter has been one of my favorite 19th-century novels ever since I first read it in graduate school 30-ish years ago. It's thrilling, scary, and still makes my brain exploded on the final weird page of that short novel. "Pym" makes these 1,300 pages worth it.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A