You know it's poe when he spends most of his time writing just the atmosphere lmfao love it...

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

Indeed! I always loved how Poe and HP Lovecraft have a tendency of saying 'Oh, it was more awful than words can explain, more terrible and dark than can be spoken or written of, defying all analysis, to attempt to convey it would drive someone mad' .... then proceed to write 24 paragraphs explaining and analysing it in painstaking detail :)

Had to read this late at night for an english assignment but i had to turn off the audio and just read the text at 41:21 cause i was just completely terrified, Edgar Allen Poe was an amazing writer

@ramblingidioms

8 ай бұрын

He was indeed. Glad you got through most of it before fear compelled your flight back to the written version ;) Good luck with your assignment!

Thanks for that. The aubible version of Selected Tales has a terrible narrator. And the version read by Sir Cristopher Lee skips some lines. Your version though is perfect. 10/10

@ramblingidioms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it!

9:37 Thanks for this. I've read only 8 of Poe’s stories but this one really had me re-reading sentences many times to understand. Following an audio makes it easier. :)

@ramblingidioms

11 күн бұрын

Glad to hear you found it helpful, much obliged for taking the time to comment 😊

You've got a great voice! I love the cadence of your reading. You really brought an extra layer of tension and fear to the story.

@ramblingidioms

5 ай бұрын

You're very kind, thank you for listening :)

Here to revist Po after watching the Netflix series Fall of the House of Usher. Haven't read Po in ages really glad that Mike Flanagan paid homage to Po's work. I had forgotten just how terrifying Po's stories are.

@ramblingidioms

Ай бұрын

I hope you felt that my recording did justice to the story :) Thanks for listening, much appreciated!

Going back through after watching the Netflix series.. i think both did so well in the incomparable nature of loss and acceptance of death

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening :) I have to be honest, the Netflix series ticked almost every single box on my 'everything I despise about TV in 2023' chart, so it got a hard 'pass' from me. However, if it piqued just one single viewer's curiosity enough to get them to seek out the original stories, then it was absolutely worthwhile them writing it and they should be applauded ;)

@AC-op3bo

7 ай бұрын

I came here too after watching that horrible Netflix series. I had to remind myself what good writing sounded like

@ScottShedd

Ай бұрын

Me too, absolutely loved the Netflix series, nightmare fuel. I had forgotten just how terrifying the og of horror was.

@ScottShedd

Ай бұрын

​​@@ramblingidiomsThe series was brilliantly done a modern take and a homage to Po's body of work. Loved the texting of "Never More" got a good chuckle. I honestly had a nightmare after watching it, Po's stories have a way of getting into the dreadful part of the human psyche.

@ramblingidioms

Ай бұрын

@@ScottShedd I'm afraid I really wasn't a fan of it, but clearly lots of folks enjoyed it so I'm pleased for them - and, like I say, if it encouraged just one more person to discover the original text(s) then it's overall a net force for good ;)

Thank god you saved me I’m not going to get an F on my English assignment

@ramblingidioms

Жыл бұрын

You are very welcome!

Wonderful voice! I loved it when you spoke french, and that accent was very fitting. I am reminded of an old acquaintance of Poe

@ramblingidioms

10 ай бұрын

High praise, many thanks and I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Great read! Just what I needed in the dark and dreary night

@ramblingidioms

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for listening, glad you enjoyed it :)

@blixten2928

Жыл бұрын

While you ponder, weak and weary...

The reading of this is STUNNING!!

@ramblingidioms

5 ай бұрын

Many thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

ur reading got the voice which is easy to listen too

@ramblingidioms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to listen, glad you enjoyed it.

Awesome! Thank you for making this. You have a great voice.

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, really glad you enjoyed it!

Wow! Great reading!

@ramblingidioms

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I should get round to doing more really...

Thank for this reading.

Thanks a lot for that ! I had to read this novel and it was really hard (English is not my mother tongue ), but with that audio I find it easier to understand it.

@ramblingidioms

Жыл бұрын

Glad to hear it helped you out, thanks for listening.

here from the netflix series. after listening i will say i like the show a lot, but after listening to this i wish they would have not used the name and just said it was inspired by it. it was funny too cause my wife said she was surprised i liked it b/c "it has everything you hate in it" to which i replied "well, i can stomach it because i know everyone dies. it makes it easier." Also, i don't know if you were the one to read this or not, i may have missed that, but well done if so!

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

The series, to me, just felt like American Horror Story in borrowed Poe clothes, which smelled like a cheap grab at name recognition to bolster interest. Just imho, if others enjoyed it, then great 😊 Yes, I did this reading, all of the recordings on my channel are me. Thanks for listening!

@Beard_Hood

7 ай бұрын

@@ramblingidiomsI basically agree. I've never seen AHS but I've seen all of Mike Flanigans stuff and I've come to the opinion that it isn't bad (save for his endings), but it shouldn't hold the name of the thing that inspired it. I prefer an adaption to be as faithful as possible, but I also don't mind if something inspired a creation but I'd prefer the name of the show to not be the name of the book if it is vastly different. It's deceptive. I like the show fall of the house of usher but I do think it should have been called something else, as it really has very little to do with the poem.

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

100% ... some things are so far away from their 'inspiration' that it's almost clickbait :) I'm pretty old-fashioned in liking my adaptations to be as true as possible to the source material, but in today's media climate that seems almost an impossible hope. I've grown used to seeing most of the books and films I grew up with vivisected into shambling, bland parables, crudely re-imagined in 'bold new, exciting ways with modern messaging to reflect today's world'. Their sole value lies in their unwitting ability to reinforce why the originals were so good ;)

@Beard_Hood

7 ай бұрын

@@ramblingidioms agreed. It's so tiresome. I'm okay with liberty be taken in translation too a degree (that Enders Game movie is the example i used for years as a bad adaption), but the core is almost always entirely unrecognizable as of late. As if the people making it didn't read it. On top of that the writers/director don't seem to have any concept of ethics or morality in general. Often the "villain" is in the right and the "hero's" are actually the ones who are morally reprehensible. It boggles my mind.

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

@@Beard_Hood I think the best example of a loving adaptation is the Lord Of The Rings films, where they cut out an awful lot of the books and smushed together other parts but also were super-careful to keep their own messages and themes and politics out of it. The result - you get three modern masterpieces, which are completely timeless. Compare that to the truly awful Rings of Power series on Amazon, where the 100% opposite approach is true - exhorbitantly expensive cosplay which still somehow manages to look cheap, teenage fanfic level writing, everything of worth subverted or deconstructed, with a side-order of activist narcissism. Hooray for progress! :/

Perfect!🙏🏾 Thanks!

This is so cool

“Shaking off from my spirit what must have been a dream… 6:35

I saw this film with my brother when I was about 14.

@daleandrews3552

Жыл бұрын

With Vincent Price from 1960, right? This one by Roger Corman really scared the shit out of me as a youngster. I'm 70, so I was 8 years old. This was a long time ago, 62 years to be exact. Man, how time flies. Reading the short story was a struggle at the time, and STILL is as an adult. Poe's narratives tend to be what I call "thick". But he does it so well, it's almost Gothic.

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had to do it for school great read tho

Here from Netflix

As a novice author I listen and read famous authors in an attempt to discern the style of writing which the public finds so alluring. I find that Poe writes, here anyway, to an audience of 10th grade education. Although the words are not over educated for the reader, the depth of the narrative often alludes many college students. Poe is hard to fathom. He has many undertones in his scriptings. They frighten a body like the perpetual falling of the rabbit hole. My favorite story is The Cask of Amomtillado. It's just lost and lonely enough to make everyone question nearly everything.

@ramblingidioms

Жыл бұрын

As well as Usher, my own personal Poe favourites are 'The Murders In The Rue Morgue' (his C. Auguste Dupin making Sherlock Holmes look decidedly ordinary in his powers) and 'The Black Cat'. Cask is also a great one - I hope to start recording some more soon, and will definitely consider it for the RamblingIdioms treatment! Good luck with your writing.

@ramblingidioms

8 ай бұрын

As a further follow-up to this older comment, I'll be uploading my recording of 'The Cask Of Amontillado' in the next few days!

@patriciajrs46

8 ай бұрын

@@ramblingidioms Awesome!!!

@patriciajrs46

8 ай бұрын

@@ramblingidioms Thanks.

Grief! Flattened vowels. Not before time

@ramblingidioms

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you (I think?). I've heard plenty of recordings using long-vowelled 'RP' style english, and thought I'd do something that was just in my own, natural northern accent.

@patriciajrs46

Жыл бұрын

@@ramblingidioms It sounds great to me.

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Have you thought about doing The Woman in Black? Think it would be a great match :)

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion. It's one I'd considered, but unless I'm mistaken it was only published in 1983 so it's still under copyright. I know lots of other channels still record copyright material regardless, but as it could conceivably mean the death of my teeny little endeavour here just as it's gathering a little steam, I can't risk it and am steering well clear for legal reasons! It's really annoying though, as there's *so* many I'd really, really love to do..

Wish this had been animated or something

@ramblingidioms

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the feedback - that's not really my thing, but I hope you enjoyed the reading either way.

@Dank951

2 жыл бұрын

Netflix is currently developing a 12 episode Edgar Allen Poe series; each episode will adapt his notable short stories such as this one and Tell Tale Heart.

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Yeaaa, this eats down 😭💀 thank u so much, cuz i had an English assignment on this

@ramblingidioms

7 ай бұрын

You're very welcome, and good luck with the assignment! 👍

33.19

This story reminds me of HP's work

@ramblingidioms

9 ай бұрын

Indeed - Lovecraft was a huge admirer of Poe. Thanks for listening :)

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