Title: painfully predictable
Product review: Was Poe ever this obvious?Publish and Perish kept me entertained, but with cartoon-comic amusement, as each dropped hint landed like a lead anvil. Long before the last chapter of each story, the ending is apparent, with few, if any, twists along the way.The themes are clever, and the tales themselves clear, concise, and precisely painted. But the stories are populated with easy stereotypes who, in the end, are too blase about their fate. Half the fun of the Cask of Amontillado was savoring Fortunado's screams, wasn't it?Amusing enough for academics with tenure angst, but none of Poe's eerie, elegant, lingering evil.
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