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agirlandherlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
My Youtube chat about my love of Poe can be found here: https://youtu.be/UuggFRQIBOU (available from 13th July 2021)
This is a difficult read to get into, but it is worth it for the descent into tragedy and haunting and fright as you watch the male in the story slowly lose his mind as he see's what cannot be. Grief, the loss of 2 wives, the loss of a woman most treasured and a horror of hallucination or haunting to end with. You must must must read it. Or listen to it :)
This is a difficult read to get into, but it is worth it for the descent into tragedy and haunting and fright as you watch the male in the story slowly lose his mind as he see's what cannot be. Grief, the loss of 2 wives, the loss of a woman most treasured and a horror of hallucination or haunting to end with. You must must must read it. Or listen to it :)
gretaxo's review against another edition
4.5
“It was the radiance of an opium-dream—an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the phantasies which hovered vision about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos”
"I regarded the sweet mouth. Here was indeed the triumph of all things heavenly-the magnificent turn of the short upper lip the soft, voluptuous slumber of the under-the dimples which sported, and the color which spoke-the teeth glancing back, with a brilliancy almost startling, every ray of the holy light which fell upon them in her serene and placid, yet most exultingly radiant of all smiles."
"word of no meaning! behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual."
"There is no point, among the many incomprehensible anomalies of the science of mind, more thrillingly exciting than the fact never, I believe, noticed in the schools that, in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
"-felt it approaching-yet not quite be mine-and so at length entirely depart!"
"I have been filled with it by certain sounds from stringed instruments, and not unfrequently by passages from books."
"But in death only, was I fully impressed with the strength of her affection."
"It is this wild longing it is this eager vehemence of desire for life but for life that I have no power to portray—no utterance capable of expressing."
"to Ligeia, the beloved, the august, the beautiful, the entombed."
"Now, then, did my spirit fully and freely burn with more than all the fires of her own. In the excitement of my opium dreams (for I was habitually fettered in the shackles of the drug) I would call aloud upon her name, during the silence of the night, or among the sheltered recesses of the glens by day, as if, through the wild eagerness, the solemn passion, the consuming ardor of my longing for the departed, I could restore her to the pathway she had abandoned ah, could it be forever? —upon the earth."
"I regarded the sweet mouth. Here was indeed the triumph of all things heavenly-the magnificent turn of the short upper lip the soft, voluptuous slumber of the under-the dimples which sported, and the color which spoke-the teeth glancing back, with a brilliancy almost startling, every ray of the holy light which fell upon them in her serene and placid, yet most exultingly radiant of all smiles."
"word of no meaning! behind whose vast latitude of mere sound we intrench our ignorance of so much of the spiritual."
"There is no point, among the many incomprehensible anomalies of the science of mind, more thrillingly exciting than the fact never, I believe, noticed in the schools that, in our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
"-felt it approaching-yet not quite be mine-and so at length entirely depart!"
"I have been filled with it by certain sounds from stringed instruments, and not unfrequently by passages from books."
"But in death only, was I fully impressed with the strength of her affection."
"It is this wild longing it is this eager vehemence of desire for life but for life that I have no power to portray—no utterance capable of expressing."
"to Ligeia, the beloved, the august, the beautiful, the entombed."
"Now, then, did my spirit fully and freely burn with more than all the fires of her own. In the excitement of my opium dreams (for I was habitually fettered in the shackles of the drug) I would call aloud upon her name, during the silence of the night, or among the sheltered recesses of the glens by day, as if, through the wild eagerness, the solemn passion, the consuming ardor of my longing for the departed, I could restore her to the pathway she had abandoned ah, could it be forever? —upon the earth."
masida214's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
sumpies's review against another edition
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75