Tag: 1 Star Reviews

A young man is born with a wonderful nose, and takes up the study of Nosology, only to hurt his career and fame by shooting another man’s nose off during a duel

This story was weird, scary a little bit but also humorous, which is a big no no to mix humour with horror.

The one thing which everyone will enjoy with this story is pretty much the odd abundance of nose puns. Which is the best part of this story.

The writing style was pretty meh. It wasn’t super bad but it neither was okay.

I need to give this story points for kind of being funny at times but it really did take the wind out of this story. And it just created mixed feeling about story for me.

I give this poem 1 / 5

Its about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man.

Again another humorous bull shit story from Edgar Allan Poe.

This story has no flow in it and it is super hard to understand whats the meaning with this one.

The characters in this one are also super forgettable. And the writing style is again meh.

In the end this story was nothing but super boring. Though it had some interesting fragments.

I give this poem 1 / 5

“The Assignation,” one of Edgar A. Poe’s earliest stories is, in fact, the first true murder mystery ever written—though it was not recognized as a mystery at all for some 170 years. The accepted theory was that the story is a romance, in which the two lovers killed themselves in a suicide pact

This one lacks the background knowledge to the whole story. Which as you can guess takes the wind out of this story.

The writing style was pretty decent but not much to talk about. It wasn’t super bad but it wasn’t neither good as in “The Raven” or some other works written by Edgar Allan Poe.

This story gives you a lots of questions but almost none answers which doesn’t work well for me at least.

For the most part it is an interesting story which takes place in Venice. 

It also have the gothic vibe to it which I love, however the conversations about art which are pretty frequent in this story sort of kills a little bit the gothic vibe. 

I give this poem 1 / 5

“To Helen” is the first of two poems to carry that name written by Edgar Allan Poe. The 15-line poem was written in honor of Jane Stanard, the mother of a childhood friend.

This one was pretty basic poem from Edgar Allan Poe which wasn’t that great as some other poems and short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe.

This poem however needs to get points for the part of being sort of oozed with the dark, moody melancholy and gothic vibe to it. 

This poem feels also like it is sort of related to Greece and Rome. 

The main problem with this poem is that it is stereotypical “love” poem which I am not a fan of. I would rather watch Twilight on repeat for a week than read a stereotypical “love” poetry. And Twilight in my opinion is one of the worst movies ever created. 

I give this poem 1 / 5

The Duc de L’Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan, and finds himself in hell: an apartment filled with various works of art that has a window overlooking a fiery landscape. Face to face with Satan, the Duc manages to avoid damnation by cheating him at a game of cards.

So this one was another pretty basic short story from Edgar Allan Poe. 

This story is sort of a story which requires more effort to be put it than it gave back to you in the form of being a good read. 

In this story Edgar Allan Poe satirises high society by having the “Duc de L’Omelette” die of a paroxysm because his dinner which wasn’t wrapped quite correctly.

As someone who have read this short story twice I need to say that I really had hard time to understand what really happen in this story. 

I also dont know a word in French, so it took the wind out of it for me a little bit.

I give this poem 1 / 5

This is a strange and wildly ahistorical tale. It speaks of three Jewish temple workers, one identified as a priest, who are upon a battlement looking over the army of Pompey surrounding the city. They have made deal with Pompey to purchase a temple sacrifice.

So this one was a tale which was of negligible value, but still amusing and pretty enjoyable. However it wasn’t so good as many other work written by Edgar Allan Poe.

The whole storyline in this short story was pretty weak and it almost seemed like it was very much like it was frivolously put together. What I’m trying to say is that it lacks depth and the characters are bland.

This short story was filled with vivid historical atmosphere but also with mercifully brief.

This short story involves sort of a trick played upon the besieged Jews by the besieging Romans.

To be honest this tale was not at all what I had expected from a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe. 

I give this poem 1 / 5

It is about a man who wanders unconsciously to his lover’s tomb, and it is noted for its Gothic imagery and hypnotic rhythm. In “Ulalume” the narrator, with the nighttime stars as his guide, wanders through an eerie woodland.

So this poem for the most part focuses on the narrator’s loss of his beloved. Which Edgar Allan Poe knows a lots about because he have written multiple poems and stories on this topic.

This one I need to say is a melodic poem which of course not everyone will like. This poem almost reads as a perfect song with even better theme to it. But I personally don’t am a fan of.

This one is another quick and short poem as you can expect from Edgar Allan Poe.

This poem sort of gives you a Greek and Roman mythology vibe while reading it which I personally liked a lot.

For the most part the writing style is pretty decent but still Edgar Allan Poe was able to do much better than this.

I give this poem 1 / 5 

This little poem was pretty enjoyable read but not good enough for me to give it a higher rating. 

There were some nice lines in it, but it didn’t blow my mind or even close to it. 

If you are a big Edgar Allan Poe fan as I am then this poem is worth the read.

If this poem was a little bit more lucidity in a way and less lunicity then it actually is then it would have helped this poem to get a higher rating.

The writing style really helped out this poem for me at least, because it sort of got the old gothic and dark vibe to it which I personally love. 

I give this poem 1 / 5

Edgar Allan Poe wrote this poem to Marie Louise Shew, who helped his  wife Virginia as she was dying. 

Its was pretty okay poem, it wasn’t good but it also wasn’t super bad.

For the most part this one was a sweet, short and quick to read poem.  And pretty much nothing more than that. 

This one is pretty enjoyable quick read which doesn’t give you any knowledge about the person which it was written to.

I personally not sure what this poem is or what it’s trying to convey. 

The writing style in this one was pretty much okay, but still as someone who have read almost every poem and story written by Edgar Allan Poe I know that he can do much better.

This poem is also one of these poems where the more times you read it the more you get confused.

I give this poem 1 / 5