A review by armadillofour
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe

3.0

Makes a better story than a novel, if you know what I mean. I am more-or-less fully inoculated to the writing style of the mid-19th century masters, but this book is an absolute slog. Every paragraph is overwritten, so much more complicated than it needs to be. It's just an unpleasant burst of wordiness.

But man, what a tale! Ghost ships! Cannibals! Bizarre angelic figures! Racism! It's a novel that's so much fun to recap for someone else.