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Mar 24 2014 12:29pm

Quote (D2FreakIt @ 24 Mar 2014 14:54)

That's perfectly fine, I also dont like some well written pieces of literature even tough other people consider them as masterpieces. It's all about personal preferences.

Here a few Poe short story recommendations from my side:

- The Tell-Tale Heart (as mainstream as it may sound, but read it)
- Metzengerstein
- The Duc de l'Omellete
- The Gold Bug
- The Power of Words
- The Sphinx
- Diddling considered as one of the exact Sciences

yup, I'm reading the Gold bug right now.

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Mar 24 2014 02:39pm

Tho now I'm reading some Gaston Leroux, his style is amazing to me, the way he writes is simple to read, very clean yet the vocabulary can be surprising and it's very enjoyable.

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Mar 25 2014 03:46am

Quote (Daneaz @ Mar 21 2014 04:04pm)

King has a bunch of awesome shorts. I have to get a list later

+1

Stephen King all the way.

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Mar 30 2014 03:54pm

As a huge 'inspiration' to Lovecraft-- you may want to read about / look into the works of Lord Dunsany. Quite an eye-opener.

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