My Favorite Reads - October 28


I have decided which October will be a final month which we underline books in a My Favorite Reads series of posts any Thursday. It has been a wonderful opportunity to speak about aged favorites from my pre-blogging days, though we knew eventually we would run out of aged favorites to speak about, as well as it looks similar to which time is near.

Each week we underline a single of my a one preferred reads from a past. Since we haven't review these books in a prolonged time we in all embody a publisher's blurb as well as my reasons for featuring a book as a favorite, together with any special memories we might have of a book.

If you would similar to to participate, greatfully leave a integrate to your post in a comments.


This Week we Chose:


Complete Stories as well as Poems of Edgar Allan Poe




About Edgar Allan Poe (Wikipedia):

Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor as well as well review critic, deliberate partial of a American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of poser as well as a macabre, Poe was a single of a earliest American practitioners of a reduced story as well as is deliberate a contriver of a detective-fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to a emerging genre of scholarship fiction. He was a initial viewable American writer to try to consequence a vital through writing alone, resulting in a financially formidable life as well as career.


Why we Chose This Book:

This is a single of those rare occasions when a book which we chose is essentially not a single we have read! . What w e meant to say is which we have review many of Poe's tales, though I'm roughly sure which we haven't review all of them (and we haven't review this sold volume, though we thought it looked comprehensive as well as we similar to that).

I don't routinely similar to frightful stories or hideous tales, though there is something so enthralling about Poe's stories. They have been intellectually thrilling but essentially scaring a pants off of me similar to some of a complicated horror books (Stephen King's for example).

I thought Poe's stories would be a viewable preference for this week too since it's roughly Halloween. we have to discuss which we wasn't utterly sure which book we was going to choose for this, my final a one preferred reads post, until we saw a post about Poe over at Just Book Reading a integrate of weeks ago. we couldn't hold which we hadn't enclosed any of Poe's functions in my a one preferred reads yet, as well as we wanted to redress that.

The tales which mount out a many in my mental recall have been The Tell-Tale Heart (my favorite), The Cask of Amantillado, The Fall of a House of Usher, as well as The Pit as well as a Pendulum. we would be remiss if we didn't also discuss his poem The Raven. This is my a one preferred rendition of The Raven as narrated by James Earl Jones from The Simpsons:



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