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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

Edgar Allan Poe

Start date: October 1, 2018

Finish date: December 1, 2018

Why we're reading this: Members voted on this book as a great example of voice. Discussion will be on November 19th.
[close] Members voted on this book as a great example of voice. Discussion will be on November 19th.

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Oct 25, 2018 J. Dorner rated it really liked it

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I enjoyed the discussion of Chess. Hoyle (a game I've never heard of) comes up next, which I'm guessing is like poker, based on the book's description. Telling me about a library in Paris... that's always a quick way to entice this reader! I learned about Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon and his failure of a play, Xerxes (1714), while reading this. (How often do we sneak pop-culture into stories? How much of it will future readers need to look-up to figure out what we meant? How did past readers figu ...more

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Nov 14, 2018 Toi Thomas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: reviewed, rated, classics, mystery, thriller

I read this book so quickly and then got busy living life that I had to go back and look at my book club discussion notes to remember my thoughts on it. In any case, I enjoyed it. Some of my thoughts are below.

The first part of the story was hard to follow and read through. Once we started to meet the characters and discovered their interest in solving a crime, it got good pretty fast. This story is told by a narrator, an unnamed character in the story and through newspaper articles. In rare for ...more

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