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mobrat 's review for:
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
by Edgar Allan Poe
2.5 stars.
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Having read a few short stories of Poe before jumping into this, I had to say I was excited and had high expectations, and in the first few chapters they were more or less met. But then reading onward was so frustrating that I on several occasions considered putting the book back on the shelf. The story so many times takes a backseat to useless information and maritime babble in paragraphs of hellish length, it feels as though it forgets that there is a story to be told. Are the technicalities of stowage and the nesting of penguins and albatrosses really so important to Gordon Pym's narrative? I myself found the answer to be a hard "no".
I can not recommend this novel unless you have a deep thirst for reading Poe, in which event I would recommend focusing on his short stories instead.
Latitude longitude.
Having read a few short stories of Poe before jumping into this, I had to say I was excited and had high expectations, and in the first few chapters they were more or less met. But then reading onward was so frustrating that I on several occasions considered putting the book back on the shelf. The story so many times takes a backseat to useless information and maritime babble in paragraphs of hellish length, it feels as though it forgets that there is a story to be told. Are the technicalities of stowage and the nesting of penguins and albatrosses really so important to Gordon Pym's narrative? I myself found the answer to be a hard "no".
I can not recommend this novel unless you have a deep thirst for reading Poe, in which event I would recommend focusing on his short stories instead.