The Black Cat

I read this because the school asked me for it, and gods, sometimes I'm so grateful for that because I loved it. It was my first book in this genre, so there was a possibility that I was not too fond of it, but actually, it did.

Xưa tui đọc truyện này mà run sợ luôn. Đọc tới đâu nổi da gà tới đó. Truyện rất là gay cấnn.

That was the most unhinged thing I ever read.

I remember reading a Edgar Allan Poe in high school but don't remember it too much. So this year I want to read his work. I enjoy this so much because it have me thinking about all the different ways of the story. And for it to be so short of a story to have a big message in it. Is so crazy to me.

I had never read Edgar Allan Poe before, started reading some of the poems which were quite nice some more morbid than others, but this was out there, horror and gore. Not usually my style, but understand why he's an acclaimed author and a reference to so many other great authors.

“Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?”

That's one hell of a way to go insane.

First time actually reading Poe (rather than listening to it), and I have finally realized what makes Poe so great - the prose. He manages to weave a simple story into something that is only subtly terrifying, through the exploration of the mind of a mad man it becomes even more so.

The way Poe distorts things with subtly, gives the impression of madness. The story would not work from a different perspective, the horror comes from the thoughts of the narrator rather than the events themselves.

Boring.