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Title: annoying
Review: I really wanted to like this book. The subject matter seemed excellent. However, several things really started to bother me greatly. First of all, Poe comes across as a really pedantic prig. His conversational language is absurd: it is not as if the real Poe wrote or spoke that way so I don't know why the author has him speak in such a pedantic, convoluted style. Another annoyance is the constant use of italics for emphasis at least 4 or 5 times a page. It is so very unnecessary. And thirdly is the ridiculous way Davy Crocket speaks. I don't care if he was a showboater, no one speaks that way. The plot is an interesting one but the denoument is far fetched and unrealistic. Needless to say, I was very disappointed.
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