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from heidip

I must say--this one is a strange one. When I first started reading it, I was thinking how beautiful Edgar Allan Poe's writing style was. But, the story is a slog at times. Sorry. It took me a month to read this short tale. The middle drags with too many longitude and latitude references and desc...

from Carl_Alves

In the only full length novel that Edgar Allan Poe ever wrote, he tells a tale set at sea of Arthur Gordon Pym. He sails around the globe, and during his misadventures at sea, he experiences a mutiny on board, a terrible storm resulting in a shipwreck, and a run-in with a tribe of cannibals. In o...

from greeniezona

Okay, I read this book for mostly two reasons: 1) I bought the book Pym by Mat Johnson, and figured I should read the book it is referencing first, and 2) Melville House published it in their novella series and you know I'm a sucker for Melville House. Of course, in what should probably be embar...

from schmechi

Ich hätte mir mehr erhoftt, ist E. A. Poes einziger längerer Roman und das Thema an sich hat mich immer schon gefesselt... Das Buch war zwar spannend, aber letztlich derart mit Seefahrtsausdrücken durchsetzt, dass man es ohne erläuternde Fussnoten (die Diogenes in der vorliegenden Ausgabe blöderw...

from john257hopper

This was Poe's only full length novel, and its episodic nature and very abrupt ending seems to indicate he was probably right to focus on short stories, of which he is in my view one of the prime exponents. This is a long-winded story of shipwrecks, storms, cannibalism, burial alive (of course), ...