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Okay, so I have the complete unabridged works of Edgar Allan Poe out from the library and I need to choose a few to read for Lit.

Anybody have any favorites? I would usually leaf through, but there are 1178 pages.

My favourite is X-ing a Paragraph, mostly because its so tongue-in-cheek and humorous as opposed to other works by Poe. Another favourite story is The Pit and the Pendulum, an excellent work that is suspensful if you can get into it.

My personal favorites are The Pit and the Pendulum (creepy story about...the Spanish Inquisition I think), The Cask of Amontillado (great insane revenge tale), and The Masque of the Red Death (the imagery in this one is just beautiful).

My all-time favorite is The Cask of Amontillado. I also like The Fall of the House of Usher because it has good amounts of symbolism.

The Purloined Letter
The Tell Tale Heart

I did a presentation on The Cask of Amontillado. Got an A on it. It's a good story. Nice, short, but lots of different ways of reading it. I seriously think the first paragraph is the scariest, though.

mitsuki lover wrote:The Purloined Letter
The Tell Tale Heart

I second both of ml's recommendations.

I agree with The Tell-Tale Heart. You can practically feel yourself going insane while reading it...

Strange, it seems I'm the only person who has actually read X-ing a Paragraph.

bigsleepj wrote:Strange, it seems I'm the only person who has actually read X-ing a Paragraph.

You must be. I hadn't even heard of it until you mentioned it.

I have only a small book of Poes work but my favorite in that was "The Gold Bug". I take it its not one of Poes more popular works? Anyway, I've never thought Poes stuff was particularly scary or anything (except maybe the Fall of the House Usher, my second favorite of what I've read of Poes) and the Gold Bug isn't really scary either but it was interesting.

Cask of Amantolado or whatever I found a bit boring and Tell Tale Heart was a disappointment. I do like the stories and all just... my mom had like hyped them all up when I was younger about how freaky/scary they were and when I finally got my hands on them it was like... this is it?

I would like to get this complete unabridged book though. I'll have to look for one next time I'm at Borders.

Scarecrow wrote:I would like to get this complete unabridged book though. I'll have to look for one next time I'm at Borders.

Borders has a textbook-sized tome for about $8 in the bargain section.

"FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, MONTRESOR!"
"Yes. For the love of God."
*places the last stone*

That will forever be the greatest scene in any book in the universe.

my mom had like hyped them all up when I was younger about how freaky/scary they were and when I finally got my hands on them it was like... this is it?

(Lisa finishes reading The Raven.)
Bart: Lisa, that wasn't scary, not even for a poem.
Lisa: Well, it was written in 1845. Maybe people were easier to scare back then.
Bart: Oh, yeah. Like when you look at Friday the 13th, part one. It's pretty tame by today's standards.

Did someone mention The Raven?

SirThinks2Much wrote:You must be. I hadn't even heard of it until you mentioned it.

Admittedly I mentioned it simply because it isn't well known, and that it has a bizarre, loopy style of humour that I tend enjoy. And it is unlike anything he usually writes, which makes it fairly unique. Still it is maybe too silly to take seriously which is why its not fairly well known.

X-Ing a Paragraph

I'm going to fifty-second The Cask of Amontillado and second X-ing a Paragraph.

And yes, Nate, that is the coolest scene in a story ever. That story almost made me sick the first time I read it....so, I read it again.

Hooray for Kkunius Maximus!

the Raven, the Masque of the red death, and the City by the sea(not sure of the exact name for this one but it was close to this)

The end of Cask, huh? I say the beginning was scarier!

" wrote:The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat.

Montresor's a wicked evil pompous murderer... and I, apparently, am his best friend?!?!?!?

Animus Seed wrote:The end of Cask, huh? I say the beginning was scarier!
Montresor's a wicked evil pompous murderer... and I, apparently, am his best friend?!?!?!?

Quite scary. Yet kind of cool.
He does have an awesome coat of arms and motto: "Nemo me impune lacessit"--"No One Insults Me With Impunity"

This line, however, gave me gigglefests:

[quote]"Enough," he said]

...but then I like gallows humor.

Hopfrog and the Cask of Amontilliado (I probably butchered that word) were both pretty interesting, IMO. Devil in the Belfry (or was it Demon) was mildly interesting as well.

here's my top 3 poe stories (not in any particular order)

fall of the house of usher

cask of amontillado

the gold-bug (ok, yeah, partly 'cus it takes place like 30 minutes from where i live, but also because out of all of poe's works, it's not that morbid, it's a story about a treasure hunt , and yes, it is my fav out of the 3)

Yes, I forgot the Godl Bug, that was another good one.

samuraidragon wrote:Okay, so I have the complete unabridged works of Edgar Allan Poe out from the library and I need to choose a few to read for Lit.

Anybody have any favorites? I would usually leaf through, but there are 1178 pages.

You came to the right place! I love Poe... um as a writer I mean... I used to have a really weird crush on him when I was 12... but uh... I have since got over it.

Fav Poems:

The Raven

Lenore

Anabelle Lee

Stories (it's been a long time since I read Poe and I can't remember the exact titles of a lot of these):

Cask of Amantilado (I know I spelled that wrong... >.>;;)

Pluto (The one with the black cat called Pluto...)

Pit and the Pendulum

"The Cask of Amontillado" is my favorite, its just super awesome. Incase you're not familiar with Spanish/Italian the "LL" in Amontillado is pronounce as a "y". Something like, uh-mon-tee-yado.
"The Tell-Tale Heart" was good, if only because the main character was crazy.
"The Black Cat" was ok, I thought it was sort of boring.
"The Gold Bug" was excellent, but it does drag on at parts.
"The Pit and the Pendulum" was good, it was also my first Poe story.
"The Oblong Box", I can't seem to remember if I read it or not...

He wrote some good poems as well. The Raven, and Annabel Lee are the only ones I've read, but that's only because I dislike poetry.

My top 4 favorties are as follows (in order from most liked to least):

Pit and the Pendulum
Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Cask of Amontillado

"Some Words With a Mummy" is interesting. Try it.

.rai//

I like the Tell-Tale Heart. It really does represent insanity and psychosis to a T.

Murders In The Rue Morgue.The culprit was rather a surprise.