criminaldoublepaws Posted July 4, 2021 Share Posted July 4, 2021 I'm about to read this one. The beginning is interesting. Did anyone read that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebug Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 I read it as a twelve year old,and have re-read it many times. Poe was considered a 'pulp' writer by some of my elders (and teachers), or a man with a warped outlook on life! I simply enjoy his tales for what they are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Yes and really liked it! 5 hours ago, timebug said: Poe was considered a 'pulp' writer by some of my elders (and teachers), or a man with a warped outlook on life What a shame! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebug Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Yes a shame. They also warned us youngsters off H.P.Lovecraft and M.R.James, who are respectively, the top writers of weird fiction and ghost stories!(IMO) Our school was staffed with ,in hindsight, poor staff. It was in the fifties,and WW2 had claimed some of the cream of the crop, leaving the shabby bunch we had to put up with. We had one good English teacher, who was able to encourage us in the right direction(s) as regards good reading and the classics, and I am always thankful for that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrissy Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 Isn't The Murders in the Rue Morgue considered to be the first detective novel? It's certainly ahead of the likes of Sherlock Holmes. I haven't read it, but will add a big YET to that statement, as I do plan on doing so sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted July 7, 2021 Share Posted July 7, 2021 On 05/07/2021 at 6:31 PM, timebug said: They also warned us youngsters off H.P.Lovecraft and M.R.James, who are respectively, the top writers of weird fiction and ghost stories!(IMO) Wow, incredibly strange (and sad) to warn young people off texts that are considered to be so influential, just because of the genre! On 05/07/2021 at 6:31 PM, timebug said: We had one good English teacher, who was able to encourage us in the right direction(s) as regards good reading and the classics, and I am always thankful for that! At least there was one! 10 minutes ago, Chrissy said: Isn't The Murders in the Rue Morgue considered to be the first detective novel? It's certainly ahead of the likes of Sherlock Holmes. Yeah it is (or at least the first modern one) and I think possibly also the first locked-room mystery? It definitely doesn't deserve to be dismissed as 'pulp'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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