The Logophile wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
The Logophile wrote...
leonard267 wrote...
If he is trying to communicate what a person who suffered through the Inquisition had to go through, I would not learn much about it. Lines and lines about what is going in his head and I am not sure what is actually happening.
Thou do realize that thou wrote in a similar way in "Cold", although not as ornately.
Yes. It was a nonsense story to begin with and I think I did mention what was the purpose of writing it. I had no idea what was going on in the Pit and the Pendulum though. There was no introduction it seemed to me.
Aren't some works like that though? They have the story's chapters rearranged, or they leave it up to the reader to interpret what had happened before.
I myself did stop reading a book because it was so boring and nothing was happening. It was "Great Expectations" by Dickens, the man whose work thou liked better than Poe.
Different people have different tastes. If you are interested in Victorian Britain or have some knowledge about what it was like you may find Great Expectations more to your liking or realise that something is actually happening.
I hate interpretation personally. I treat every story like a newspaper article or a memo that needs to be understood. Clear and concise sentences are much more agreeable with me.