Portable Magic
Reading, for me, is entertainment and an escape from the real world. But it can also inform and stretch the boundaries of the life I live.
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue ★★☆☆☆
I find Poe's short stories to be wildly variable on the spectrum of "hot mess" to "delightfully weird". This one falls somewhere on the lower end of the spectrum, just under "meh". Extra points for gruesome details of the murders (the body stuffed up the chimney! the decapitation!), but points removed for the implausibility of the solution
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Audiobook version. I love Bronson Pinchot as an audio narrator, but I struggled with understanding all the explanation given in the frenchman's voice. I assume he was using an authentically French-accented English in doing the reading, so my difficulties must be due to my absolute lack of familiarity with both the French language and native French speakers.
I read this for the 2016 Halloween Bingo, in the Locked Room Mystery Square.
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