Book rewiev - A Descent into the Maelstrom
Edgar Allan Poe is king of the horror writing
Frightening, staggering and masterfully written, I thoroughly enjoyed A Descent into the Maelstrom and the Other Short Stories in Edgar Allan Poe’s book. The book is filled up with fourteen short stories and each of them is written in its own way, but with self-same dismal tone.
The book opens with one of the best stories that Edgar Allan Poe had ever written, The Black Cat. This story immediately evokes you mixed, difficult and mysterious feeling, especially, when author is writing about the murderers inner space and life, about his own demons and fears.
As the book goes on you are discovering more and more secrets of extremes in human mind which are written down in different stories
One of the things I like best about the book, and all Edgar Allan Poe’s books, apart from his skillful writing, is his ability to invoke an astonishing imagination and visualization of the plot. He brings characters to life. He achieved it by the vivid descriptions of the places and convincing stories. Once you start reading you are not able to stop until you won’t get to the end. It has to be conditioned by Poe’s intelligent, polite but impetuous nature.
My only criticism of the book is that the author has a tendency to use very specific language and sentence constructions that you don’t understand to at the first time , so you sometimes need to go through them two or three times. I find it a bit confusing.
All in all, though if you are a fan of old fashioned, scary and sometimes a little bit stingy pieces of art, you will love this book or love whole work of Edgar Allan Poe. I would still recommend it because A Descent into the Maelstrom is something such unique that you wouldn’t find anything else what hadn’t been copied or inspired with this. In fact, these short stories also have happy ends, or as best as they can have.
Frightening, staggering and masterfully written, I thoroughly enjoyed A Descent into the Maelstrom and the Other Short Stories in Edgar Allan Poe’s book. The book is filled up with fourteen short stories and each of them is written in its own way, but with self-same dismal tone.
The book opens with one of the best stories that Edgar Allan Poe had ever written, The Black Cat. This story immediately evokes you mixed, difficult and mysterious feeling, especially, when author is writing about the murderers inner space and life, about his own demons and fears.
As the book goes on you are discovering more and more secrets of extremes in human mind which are written down in different stories
One of the things I like best about the book, and all Edgar Allan Poe’s books, apart from his skillful writing, is his ability to invoke an astonishing imagination and visualization of the plot. He brings characters to life. He achieved it by the vivid descriptions of the places and convincing stories. Once you start reading you are not able to stop until you won’t get to the end. It has to be conditioned by Poe’s intelligent, polite but impetuous nature.
My only criticism of the book is that the author has a tendency to use very specific language and sentence constructions that you don’t understand to at the first time , so you sometimes need to go through them two or three times. I find it a bit confusing.
All in all, though if you are a fan of old fashioned, scary and sometimes a little bit stingy pieces of art, you will love this book or love whole work of Edgar Allan Poe. I would still recommend it because A Descent into the Maelstrom is something such unique that you wouldn’t find anything else what hadn’t been copied or inspired with this. In fact, these short stories also have happy ends, or as best as they can have.