Tuesday, February 5, 2008

A tale of Jerusalem

I wanted to explain more about my reasons for disliking the story. I mentioned it was frantic and I feel like when Poe builds tension he tends to make the dialogue "faster". However this whole story had so much dialogue it just seemed very fast paced. There was little description. There was also too many exclamation marks!!!! I have this thing against too much puncuation.

1 comment:

LH said...

I think it's more than just the punctuation. Or, rather, you notice the punctuation because the story is so impenetrable. Opening the story by giving the reader the date according to the Hebrew calendar is pretty hostile -- kind of showy, too.