Ligeia Audiobook

" oh Poe <3 "

" My favorite of Poe's works "

" Ok, I am having a tough time with Ligeia. I loved the ghost story part of this. Crimony, I wanted to shoot up out of my chair and go screaming from the room! The suspense was spectacular! I mean, could you imagine, your dead spouse suddenly re-animating and walking across the room toward you while still in their shroud?! Granted, this would be more horrifying if it were in a gothic setting, and if there were all kinds of Egyptian funerary objects scattered around the room, but thankfully, those things were present in Ligeia. But the first half of this story went on entirely too long. The narrator babbled on so much about Ligeia's large black eyes, (eyes that seemed much larger than those of normal people), and about her superior intelligence, that I began to think, "What is he describing here, an alien?!" Really, it left the realm of gothic romance and wandered into the realm of Close Encounters of the Third Kind. So for me, Poe just spent too much time on (ridiculously flowery) verbal portraiture of Ligeia the woman, and not enough time freaking me out with what could have been a truly great ghost story! "

" The writing seems dated to me in its melodrama. "

" This was a strange fun little story I read for the Poe Party this year. I love the Poe Party. "

" Man, does he love this lassie's eyes. He goes on about them for twenty minutes. I never knew there were so many ways to describe a woman's eyes. "

" Daily Lit book... "

" Short but I like it :) "

" This short story contains everything one would expect from Edgar Allan Poe: creepiness, dark, gothic writing, people dying, people coming back from the dead (at least perceived by the narrator). I enjoyed it quite a bit. "

" The first Poe book I hated! "

" Read through Daily Lit. A thing of beauty transformed into a thing of ugliness. It was very interesting. "

" Not really my cuppa. I found it tedious this first reading. I might try it again another day. "

" It took a time gettin into, even being a short story. Poe has a richness in his narrative description that paints a vivid be it macabre vision to the reader. It was not until the end that I realized what this story was about and it hit with a resounding spine chilling thump when I did! "

" The suspense was a little heavy. The outcome, for me, was overshadowed by way too much description. "

" Like most of Poe's works, "Ligeia" has to do with perversity. It has to do with the women's sphere, with madness, with love, with hate, with race and money and the nineteenth century. "

" I read this as a kind of love story; my classmates read it as utterly creepy. I saw the ending as a literal event; my classmates read it as a hallucination. Is there something wrong with me? Probably. Ligeia is awesome. End of story. "

" Definitely interesting "

" Wonderfully written, I especially enjoyed Poe's description style in this story. "

" Typical Poe. I never thought that I would enjoy anything of Poe but after I, or me readin for an American Literature class, made myself read some of Poe's works, I like him. Ligeia is dark and not the happiest story but I liked it anyway. "

" Poe is talent itself; an earthly linearization of the pure abstract. "

" Not bad, not great. Meh. "

" Fairly typical Poe short story, overly wordy with supernatural elements and a tortured soul. "

" As far as I will go when it comes to reading horror. I love Poe. He lived such a sad yet fascinating life, it's interesting to me to read his works and see a product of such a life he lived. "

" Some good stuff in there; mostly a lot of second-rate stuff (in my opinion). I learned from reading this book that I don't much care for Poe. More power to those who do. "

" So many books I've read lately referred to Poe that I felt I ought to re-read some of the short stories. In the end, I've opted for three stars, as the good ones are really good, and for the most part balance out the stories which grabbed me less. "

" Poe was a HUGE influence in my writing short fiction. His tales are brilliant and psychologically chilling. "

" I think this book is really good! I recomend everyone to read this if the are interested into the life of Edgar Allen Poe. He is a really creppy person but his stories have a way of pulling me in and keep me reading. "

" I really hate Poe. I'm only reading this because I have to. "

" This book is decent ... I read the English edition... They only thing lacking is his amazing collection of poems... this was a poet who was very deep and dark at times but the short stories only show his lighter side.. But great work to say the least.. "

" Many of the stories in this collection tend towards the monotonous and dull. There are the odd one or two which are engaging but overall the writing comes across as laboured and grinding. A great little dust collector, this one. "