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Taking up MHALLs challange to find things to post about, and to not post anything political, a thread a while back got me to thinking about something. Someone had posted that having read Brave New World made them a wacko, or something to that effect, and I had mentioned that I had read Brave New World, as well as several other books including the Pit and the Pendulem by Edgar Allen Poe. They then came back and said I must have been strainge to have gotten through the Pit.

Actually that was only a short story but I have read most of Poe's short stories and I was wondering if other people had read them and had liked them as well as I did. Here are the titles for as many as I can remember:

The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
The Cask of Amontillado
The Gold Bug
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
A Decent into the Maelstrom
The Premature Burial

Has anyone else read these short stories and is there any I have not listed?

Grumpy

[QUOTE=Grumpy;382279]Taking up MHALLs challange to find things to post about, and to not post anything political, a thread a while back got me to thinking about something. Someone had posted that having read Brave New World made them a wacko, or something to that effect, and I had mentioned that I had read Brave New World, as well as several other books including the Pit and the Pendulem by Edgar Allen Poe. They then came back and said I must have been strainge to have gotten through the Pit.

Actually that was only a short story but I have read most of Poe's short stories and I was wondering if other people had read them and had liked them as well as I did. Here are the titles for as many as I can remember:

The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Purloined Letter
The Cask of Amontillado
The Gold Bug
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Black Cat
A Decent into the Maelstrom
The Premature Burial

Has anyone else read these short stories and is there any I have not listed?

Grumpy[/QUOTE]

Read only 3 of those, Poe's opium induced tales lost me pretty quick. Plus his use of the language is too much work for a simpleton like me to follow. I've read countless books since grade school and still average 2 or 3 a month. Reading is necessary to for me to shut the old 8 bit processor down and get to sleep. Unfortunately I prefer fictional escape reading.

If you like Poe, you likely have read Steven King some. Went through a phase years ago where I read most of his stuff. "Dolores Claiborne" and "The Green Mile" are his best IMO. What do you think?

I love Lee Child's Jack Reacher character and anything by Nelson DeMille.

Anyone ever use audio books for long car trips? They're free at the library, and will make a 4 hour trip go by in a flash.

[QUOTE=Devils Horse;382291]Read only 3 of those, Poe's opium induced tales lost me pretty quick. Plus his use of the language is too much work for a simpleton like me to follow. I've read countless books since grade school and still average 2 or 3 a month. Reading is necessary to for me to shut the old 8 bit processor down and get to sleep. Unfortunately I prefer fictional escape reading.

If you like Poe, you likely have read Steven King some. Went through a phase years ago where I read most of his stuff. "Dolores Claiborne" and "The Green Mile" are his best IMO. What do you think?

I love Lee Child's Jack Reacher character and anything by Nelson DeMille.

Anyone ever use audio books for long car trips? They're free at the library, and will make a 4 hour trip go by in a flash.[/QUOTE]

Read everything King wrote when I was in the Army even under the other name of Richard Bachman (going by memory so I could be WAY OFF)?

Never read the green mile but thats a great movie so the book must be fantastic!

I wanted to but these books did not have any pictures. Just kidding We had to read some of Poe's stuff in high school but that was quite awhile ago.

[QUOTE=DJD;382307]Read everything King wrote when I was in the Army even under the other name of Richard Bachman (going by memory so I could be WAY OFF)?

Never read the green mile but thats a great movie so the book must be fantastic![/QUOTE]

King in his heyday was the most prolific author I can name. Dude has a gift for cranking out long, wild stories one after the other. His ability to build colorful, fascinating characters, and hook you on a story after just a page or 2 is amazing.

Books are always much better to me than movies based on them Don. A perfect example is one of the Bachman books you mentioned. The best IMO was "The Running Man". The governator in the movie version was entertaining, but not even remotely close to Bachman/King's book.

Green Mile makes my top 10 all time favorite list, a great read if you like that kind of stuff.

Hey ZX, surely you like cop novels. How about Joseph Wambaugh's "The Blue Knight"? A great book that inspired a really good movie. Something-or-other Kennedy (CRS) was the perfect main character in the movie.