Chris’s Comments (group member since Nov 13, 2012)

Chris’s comments from the Classics Without All the Class group.

I'm reading for the first time. Just came across the below passage and it sums up how I aspire to live.

" I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world;"

A bit late to the party, but I thought I would pick some low hanging fruit out of the way by catching up on the backlog of books. Luckily Free online copy and 22 pages of poetic horror are easy to tick off.

The enjoyable part of the House of Usher for myself was eloquence and flow of the text.

I have to mention apart from the Raven episode on the Simpsons this is my first "proper" reading of any of E.A.P's work. It has encouraged me to try and knock off a few other of his stories seeing as they'll be easy to finish.