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I had seen a movie version of Sleepy Hollow years ago, but I hadn't read this short story until now. I loved the descriptions of rural areas around Sleepy Hollow, and I like that in the end you really don't know what happened.
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I listened to the audiobook for this and enjoyed the narrator’s ability to put inflections in a way you could distinguish the different characters. I do think the first portion of the story may have been easier to follow had I been reading a physical copy due to all the details and different characters. The language of the book definitely reinforces the fact it is a classic written in the early 1800s. This was the version of a horror book I could tolerate. Not sure I’m ready for the primetime va
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The story of Ichabod Crane and the Headless horseman. I thought the story would be a lot scarier than it was. Instead the story mainly described the wonders of rural New York, which bored me, and there was only one semi-scary part to it.
After all the popularization of the story, I forgot my reading decades ago and I remembered I loved the story because it was a debunking of the fearful and mystical. Something mostly lost in the popular retellings.
2.5 Stars
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Feb 12, 2013
Kim DeCina
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