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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
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
Poetry:
-"O, Tempora! O, Mores!" - read 11/14/2021.
-"To Margaret" - read 11/14/2021.
-"To Octavia" - read 11/14/2021.
-"Tamberlane" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Song" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Dreams" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Spirits of the Dead" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Evening Star" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Imitation" - read 11/21/2021.
-"Stanzas" - read 11/21/2021.
-"A Dream" - read 11/21/2021.
-"The Happiest Day - the Happiest Hour" - read 11/21/2021.
-"The Lake: To ___" - read 11/22/2021.
-"Sonnet - To Science" - read 11/25/2021.
-"Al Aaraaf" - read 11/26/2021.
-"Mysterious Star!" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Romance" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Introduction" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To____('The bowers whereat')" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To the River ___" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To____" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Fairy Land" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Fairy-Land" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Alone" - read 12/11/2021.
-"'To Isaac Lea'" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Elizabeth" - read 12/11/2021.
-"From an Album" - read 12/11/2021.
-"'Lines on Joe Locke'" - read 12/11/2021.
-"To Helen" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Israfel" - read 12/11/2021.
-"The Sleeper" - read 12/11/2021.
-"The Valley of Unrest" - read 12/12/2021.
-"The City in the Sea" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Lenore" - read 12/11/2021.
-"To One in Paradise" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Hymn" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Enigma" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Serenade" - read 12/18/2021.
-"The Coliseum" - read 12/18/2021.
-"To F___s S. O___d" - read 12/18/2021.
-"To F___" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Bridal Ballad" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Sonnet - To Zante" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Haunted Palace" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Sonnet - Silence" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Conqueror Worm" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Dream-Land" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Eulalie - A Song" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Raven" - read 12/19/2021.
-"A Valentine" - read 12/19/2021.
-"'Deep in Earth'" - read 12/19/2021.
-"To Miss Louise Olivia-Hunter" - read 12/19/2021.
-"To M. L. S." - read 12/19/2021.
-"To ___ ___ ___" - read 12/25/2021.
-"Ulalume - A Ballad" - read 12/25/2021.
-"An Enigma" - read 12/25/2021.
-"The Bells"- read 12/25/2021.
-"To Helen" - read 12/26/2021.
-"A Dream within a Dream" - read 12/25/2021.
-"For Annie" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Eldorado" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Sonnet - To My Mother" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Annabel Lee" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Scenes from 'Politian'" - read 12/26/2021.
Stories:
-"Metzengerstein": 2 - read 1/17/2022.
-"The Duc de L'Omelette": 2 - read 11/14/2021. Didn't fully get.
-"A Tale of Jerusalem": 1.5 - read 2/20/2022.
-"Loss of Breath": 4 - read 11/21/2021. Well this one was wacky! Reminded me of a less serious "The Death of Olivier Becaille" by Emile Zola.
-"Bon-Bon": 2 - read 2/19/2022. Eh.
-"Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard": 1 - read 2/20/2022.
-"M.S. Found in a Bottle": 3 - read 2/20/2022.
-"The Assignation": 3 - read 2/19/2022.
-"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal"1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Lionizing": 3 - read 1/1/2022. Silly and light hearted story from Poe.
-"Shadow - A Parable": 1 - read 2/6/2022.
-"Silence - A Fable": 1 - read 2/6/2022.
-"Berenice": 3 - read 2/27/2022.
-"Morella": 3 - read 4/16/2022.
-"King Pest": 1 - read 1/22/2022. Boring; not interested.
-"Mystification"1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Ligeia": 3 - read 1/9/2022.
-"How to Write a Blackwood Article": 4 - read 2/26/2022. I get the feeling Poe is parodying publishers and what they tell writers to write so that it sells. Makes me wonder if Poe received the same suggestions and is not having it!
-"The Devil in the Belfry": 1 - read 2/26/2022.
-"The Man That Was Used Up": 3 - read 2/26/2022.
-"The Fall of the House of Usher": 3.5 - read 12/18/2021. The imagery of the first pages was good, and I liked the ending, but the middle was slow. Classic Poe with his obsession with people being buried alive/not really dead.
-"William Wilson": 5 - read 11/20/2021. Reminded me of "The Double" by Dostoevsky. He definitely took inspiration from Poe! There's also similarities to "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which makes me think Oscar Wilde was also inspired by Poe. Stories about doppelgängers are always unsettling to me.
-"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion": 1.5 - read 11/14/2021. Forgettable but okay...a science fiction/post-apocalyptic story which is pretty cool for the time period. It was just very short with not a lot to it.
-"Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant's Dance": 2 - read 1/22/2022.
-"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling": 1 - read 1/22/2022. DNF. The dialect is frustrating.
-"Instinct vs Reason - A Black Cat"": 1 - read 1/22/2022.
-"The Business Man": 4 - read 1/1/2022. Poe is known for his dark and creepy stories, but every few are light hearted, ridiculous, and funny. This one follows a business man, as the title suggests, as he moves between different professions. At first he's respectable in an honest trade, and then he begins stealing and scamming people, and, as we say, "hustles."
-"The Philosophy of Furniture": 3 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Man of the Crowd": 1 - read 4/3/2022.
-"The Island of the Fay": 1 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue": 3 - read 10/3/2021. A murderous orangutan in France. Odd. I'm pretty sure I've read this before because the explanation was familiar.
-"A Descent into the Maelstrom": 1 - read 4/16/2021.
-"The Colloquy of Monos and Una": 1 - read 5/1/2021. DNF.
-"Never Bet the Devil Your Head": 3 - read 1/1/2022. Oscar Wilde definitely followed this philosophy, as evident by "Dorian Gray": "provided the morals of an author are pure, personally, it signifies nothing what are the morals of his books."
-"Eleonora": 3 - read 12/23/2021.
-"Three Sundays in a Week": 2.5 - read 12/26/2021. Eh, it was fine. Not creepy, not even really weird. Mostly chalked up to people coming from different time zones, making it 3 Sundays.
-"The Oval Portrait": 3 - read 9/19/2021.
-"The Masque of the Red Death": 4 - read 9/19/2021. Oddly timely considering that the MET Gala still happened while the COVID pandemic rages on...
"The Pit and the Pendulum": 3 - read 9/25/2021. I'm not sure I "got" this.
-"The Mystery of Marie Roget": 1 - read 1/22/2022. Based on the real murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in NYC in 18141. DNF. Found it boring, lots of tell don't show. I don't enjoy police procedurals/detective stories that much.
-"Morning on the Wissahiccon": 3 - read 11/20/2021. This was nice. I enjoyed the imagery. Little different for Poe - not creepy in the least.
-"The Tell-Tale Heart": 4 - read 9/18/2021. Love the Spongebob adaptation of this with the squeaky boots. Poe's original is good too.
-"The Gold Bug": 2 - read 1/17/2022. Eh. Bit too long.
-"The Black Cat": 4 - read 10/10/2021. This started differently than how I remember, but the ending was how I expected. I might be confusing two stories. I remember one where the wife is murdered and he puts the body in acid and the ring didn’t melt which is how he gets caught. But the cat jumping in the wall with the wife’s body was also how I remember. So maybe these are two different stories lol. Anyways, definitely creepy and gory.
-"Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences": 2 - read 4/3/2022.
-"Byron and Miss Chaworth": 2 - read 10/16/2021. Okay. I didn't understand every reference, not being very familiar with Byron's work or his affairs.
-"The Spectacles": 2.5 - read 2/27/2022. It was a'ight until the mistaken, but then turns out it was a joke and didn't happen, incest because the protagonist can't see worth shit...
-"The Oblong Box": 2.5 - read 2/27/2022. Eh. Fine.
-"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains": 3 - read 5/1/2021.
-"The Premature Burial":3 - read 1/2/2022. I have to respect that Poe was probably the first person to write about the fear of being buried alive (which was apparently a common fear in Victorian times), but I prefer Zola's "The Death of Olivier Becaille" more. Zola obviously took inspiration from this, though.
-"The Purloined Letter": 2 - read 5/31/2021.
-"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether": 2 - read 5/31/2021.
-"Mesmeric Revelation": 1 - read 5/31/2021. skimmed.
-"'Thou Art the Man'"3 - read 5/22/2022.
-"The Balloon-Hoax": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Angel of the Odd" - 2.5 - read 12/4/2021. Weird but not particularly dark.
-"The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Some Words with a Mummy": 2 - read 1/17/2022.
-"The Power of Words": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
"The Imp of the Perverse": 2.5 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Sphinx": 1 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Cask of Amontillado": 4 - read 10/30/2021. I read this in 9th grade, but I clearly did not fully understand it. I remember the guy getting walled up, but that was all. I love the first paragraph; so far it's my favorite opener: "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
-"The Domain of Arnheim": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Mellonta Tauta": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Landor's Cottage": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Hop-Frog": 3.5 - read 10/23/2021. Pretty dark. Court jester is tired of being picked on by the king so he humiliates him and his councilors and burns them alive. Fun.
-"Von Kempelen and His Discovery": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"'X-ing a Paragrab'": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Eureka - A Prose Poem": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"O, Tempora! O, Mores!" - read 11/14/2021.
-"To Margaret" - read 11/14/2021.
-"To Octavia" - read 11/14/2021.
-"Tamberlane" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Song" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Dreams" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Spirits of the Dead" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Evening Star" - read 11/20/2021.
-"Imitation" - read 11/21/2021.
-"Stanzas" - read 11/21/2021.
-"A Dream" - read 11/21/2021.
-"The Happiest Day - the Happiest Hour" - read 11/21/2021.
-"The Lake: To ___" - read 11/22/2021.
-"Sonnet - To Science" - read 11/25/2021.
-"Al Aaraaf" - read 11/26/2021.
-"Mysterious Star!" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Romance" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Introduction" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To____('The bowers whereat')" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To the River ___" - read 12/4/2021.
-"To____" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Fairy Land" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Fairy-Land" - read 12/4/2021.
-"Alone" - read 12/11/2021.
-"'To Isaac Lea'" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Elizabeth" - read 12/11/2021.
-"From an Album" - read 12/11/2021.
-"'Lines on Joe Locke'" - read 12/11/2021.
-"To Helen" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Israfel" - read 12/11/2021.
-"The Sleeper" - read 12/11/2021.
-"The Valley of Unrest" - read 12/12/2021.
-"The City in the Sea" - read 12/11/2021.
-"Lenore" - read 12/11/2021.
-"To One in Paradise" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Hymn" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Enigma" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Serenade" - read 12/18/2021.
-"The Coliseum" - read 12/18/2021.
-"To F___s S. O___d" - read 12/18/2021.
-"To F___" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Bridal Ballad" - read 12/18/2021.
-"Sonnet - To Zante" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Haunted Palace" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Sonnet - Silence" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Conqueror Worm" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Dream-Land" - read 12/19/2021.
-"Eulalie - A Song" - read 12/19/2021.
-"The Raven" - read 12/19/2021.
-"A Valentine" - read 12/19/2021.
-"'Deep in Earth'" - read 12/19/2021.
-"To Miss Louise Olivia-Hunter" - read 12/19/2021.
-"To M. L. S." - read 12/19/2021.
-"To ___ ___ ___" - read 12/25/2021.
-"Ulalume - A Ballad" - read 12/25/2021.
-"An Enigma" - read 12/25/2021.
-"The Bells"- read 12/25/2021.
-"To Helen" - read 12/26/2021.
-"A Dream within a Dream" - read 12/25/2021.
-"For Annie" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Eldorado" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Sonnet - To My Mother" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Annabel Lee" - read 12/26/2021.
-"Scenes from 'Politian'" - read 12/26/2021.
Stories:
-"Metzengerstein": 2 - read 1/17/2022.
-"The Duc de L'Omelette": 2 - read 11/14/2021. Didn't fully get.
-"A Tale of Jerusalem": 1.5 - read 2/20/2022.
-"Loss of Breath": 4 - read 11/21/2021. Well this one was wacky! Reminded me of a less serious "The Death of Olivier Becaille" by Emile Zola.
-"Bon-Bon": 2 - read 2/19/2022. Eh.
-"Four Beasts in One - The Homo-Cameleopard": 1 - read 2/20/2022.
-"M.S. Found in a Bottle": 3 - read 2/20/2022.
-"The Assignation": 3 - read 2/19/2022.
-"The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal"1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Lionizing": 3 - read 1/1/2022. Silly and light hearted story from Poe.
-"Shadow - A Parable": 1 - read 2/6/2022.
-"Silence - A Fable": 1 - read 2/6/2022.
-"Berenice": 3 - read 2/27/2022.
-"Morella": 3 - read 4/16/2022.
-"King Pest": 1 - read 1/22/2022. Boring; not interested.
-"Mystification"1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Ligeia": 3 - read 1/9/2022.
-"How to Write a Blackwood Article": 4 - read 2/26/2022. I get the feeling Poe is parodying publishers and what they tell writers to write so that it sells. Makes me wonder if Poe received the same suggestions and is not having it!
-"The Devil in the Belfry": 1 - read 2/26/2022.
-"The Man That Was Used Up": 3 - read 2/26/2022.
-"The Fall of the House of Usher": 3.5 - read 12/18/2021. The imagery of the first pages was good, and I liked the ending, but the middle was slow. Classic Poe with his obsession with people being buried alive/not really dead.
-"William Wilson": 5 - read 11/20/2021. Reminded me of "The Double" by Dostoevsky. He definitely took inspiration from Poe! There's also similarities to "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which makes me think Oscar Wilde was also inspired by Poe. Stories about doppelgängers are always unsettling to me.
-"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion": 1.5 - read 11/14/2021. Forgettable but okay...a science fiction/post-apocalyptic story which is pretty cool for the time period. It was just very short with not a lot to it.
-"Some Account of Stonehenge, the Giant's Dance": 2 - read 1/22/2022.
-"Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling": 1 - read 1/22/2022. DNF. The dialect is frustrating.
-"Instinct vs Reason - A Black Cat"": 1 - read 1/22/2022.
-"The Business Man": 4 - read 1/1/2022. Poe is known for his dark and creepy stories, but every few are light hearted, ridiculous, and funny. This one follows a business man, as the title suggests, as he moves between different professions. At first he's respectable in an honest trade, and then he begins stealing and scamming people, and, as we say, "hustles."
-"The Philosophy of Furniture": 3 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Man of the Crowd": 1 - read 4/3/2022.
-"The Island of the Fay": 1 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Murders in the Rue Morgue": 3 - read 10/3/2021. A murderous orangutan in France. Odd. I'm pretty sure I've read this before because the explanation was familiar.
-"A Descent into the Maelstrom": 1 - read 4/16/2021.
-"The Colloquy of Monos and Una": 1 - read 5/1/2021. DNF.
-"Never Bet the Devil Your Head": 3 - read 1/1/2022. Oscar Wilde definitely followed this philosophy, as evident by "Dorian Gray": "provided the morals of an author are pure, personally, it signifies nothing what are the morals of his books."
-"Eleonora": 3 - read 12/23/2021.
-"Three Sundays in a Week": 2.5 - read 12/26/2021. Eh, it was fine. Not creepy, not even really weird. Mostly chalked up to people coming from different time zones, making it 3 Sundays.
-"The Oval Portrait": 3 - read 9/19/2021.
-"The Masque of the Red Death": 4 - read 9/19/2021. Oddly timely considering that the MET Gala still happened while the COVID pandemic rages on...
"The Pit and the Pendulum": 3 - read 9/25/2021. I'm not sure I "got" this.
-"The Mystery of Marie Roget": 1 - read 1/22/2022. Based on the real murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers in NYC in 18141. DNF. Found it boring, lots of tell don't show. I don't enjoy police procedurals/detective stories that much.
-"Morning on the Wissahiccon": 3 - read 11/20/2021. This was nice. I enjoyed the imagery. Little different for Poe - not creepy in the least.
-"The Tell-Tale Heart": 4 - read 9/18/2021. Love the Spongebob adaptation of this with the squeaky boots. Poe's original is good too.
-"The Gold Bug": 2 - read 1/17/2022. Eh. Bit too long.
-"The Black Cat": 4 - read 10/10/2021. This started differently than how I remember, but the ending was how I expected. I might be confusing two stories. I remember one where the wife is murdered and he puts the body in acid and the ring didn’t melt which is how he gets caught. But the cat jumping in the wall with the wife’s body was also how I remember. So maybe these are two different stories lol. Anyways, definitely creepy and gory.
-"Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences": 2 - read 4/3/2022.
-"Byron and Miss Chaworth": 2 - read 10/16/2021. Okay. I didn't understand every reference, not being very familiar with Byron's work or his affairs.
-"The Spectacles": 2.5 - read 2/27/2022. It was a'ight until the mistaken, but then turns out it was a joke and didn't happen, incest because the protagonist can't see worth shit...
-"The Oblong Box": 2.5 - read 2/27/2022. Eh. Fine.
-"A Tale of the Ragged Mountains": 3 - read 5/1/2021.
-"The Premature Burial":3 - read 1/2/2022. I have to respect that Poe was probably the first person to write about the fear of being buried alive (which was apparently a common fear in Victorian times), but I prefer Zola's "The Death of Olivier Becaille" more. Zola obviously took inspiration from this, though.
-"The Purloined Letter": 2 - read 5/31/2021.
-"The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether": 2 - read 5/31/2021.
-"Mesmeric Revelation": 1 - read 5/31/2021. skimmed.
-"'Thou Art the Man'"3 - read 5/22/2022.
-"The Balloon-Hoax": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Angel of the Odd" - 2.5 - read 12/4/2021. Weird but not particularly dark.
-"The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Some Words with a Mummy": 2 - read 1/17/2022.
-"The Power of Words": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
"The Imp of the Perverse": 2.5 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Sphinx": 1 - read 2/27/2022.
-"The Cask of Amontillado": 4 - read 10/30/2021. I read this in 9th grade, but I clearly did not fully understand it. I remember the guy getting walled up, but that was all. I love the first paragraph; so far it's my favorite opener: "The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitively settled—but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved, precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish, but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
-"The Domain of Arnheim": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Mellonta Tauta": 2 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Landor's Cottage": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Hop-Frog": 3.5 - read 10/23/2021. Pretty dark. Court jester is tired of being picked on by the king so he humiliates him and his councilors and burns them alive. Fun.
-"Von Kempelen and His Discovery": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"'X-ing a Paragrab'": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"Eureka - A Prose Poem": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
-"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket": 1 - read 6/25/2022.
Осень - идеальное время перечитать Эдгара По.
And, omg, it's narrated by legendary Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone!
And, omg, it's narrated by legendary Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone!
Oh, Poe. While everyone thinks of his "The Pit & the Pendulum" or "The Raven" or "The Tell-Tale Heart," I think of "X-ing a Paragrab" or "How to Write a Blackwood Article" or its ensuing "A Predicament" as my favorites. Though King-of-Run-on-Sentences Poe may be, there's a lovely, clever tone of playfulness in his work that I enjoy. His wit is cutting and often sides with the little guy (literally so in "Hop-Frog"). Or, he offers commentary on social structures and often uses the affluent and socially superior as his victims of horror. I don't often reach for short stories from my shelves, but these are timelessly some of my favorites.
I am rating this specific audio CD. Of course Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone were excellent narrators.
However, the CD is super weird because the titles of the pieces weren't spoken before the poems/stories. Sometimes it took me a bit to realize we'd transitioned to something new. Also, playing this on my car CD player, it was very very soft. Very hard to hear at times even with the audio turned all the way up.
I'd forgotten about that lovely story in which the narrator is cruel to and hangs his cat. Hopefully I'll forget about it again.
However, the CD is super weird because the titles of the pieces weren't spoken before the poems/stories. Sometimes it took me a bit to realize we'd transitioned to something new. Also, playing this on my car CD player, it was very very soft. Very hard to hear at times even with the audio turned all the way up.
I'd forgotten about that lovely story in which the narrator is cruel to and hangs his cat. Hopefully I'll forget about it again.
-1 Star: Dated language
His tales will keep you up at night. His poems will break your heart. A body of work that continues to inspire modern adaptions and reimaginings. Stephen King quotes Poe in The Shining, with good reason. His level of influence is staggering, his talent and intellect, even more so. Some of the introspection or exposition might feel wordy at times. I'll admit some of it is difficult to absorb due to the periods semantics. Some of it verges on perverse and outright cruel, but Poe took risks no one else had yet. Poe taught American writers to walk so the horror genre could run, across all mediums.
His tales will keep you up at night. His poems will break your heart. A body of work that continues to inspire modern adaptions and reimaginings. Stephen King quotes Poe in The Shining, with good reason. His level of influence is staggering, his talent and intellect, even more so. Some of the introspection or exposition might feel wordy at times. I'll admit some of it is difficult to absorb due to the periods semantics. Some of it verges on perverse and outright cruel, but Poe took risks no one else had yet. Poe taught American writers to walk so the horror genre could run, across all mediums.
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense