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nataliaivonica's review
3.0
2.75
esse conto tem a cara de quem curte true crime (o que no caso não sou eu)
esse conto tem a cara de quem curte true crime (o que no caso não sou eu)
mshield's review against another edition
2.0
1.5 rounded up.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (to which this is a sequel) was an investigative, speculative, and conclusive detective piece, which I was happy to have read.
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is a speculative and, off-screen only, conclusive short story that drags through its own meandering, repetitive, and drab verbosity.
Our proto-Holmes amateur (though with deductive reasoning/ probability ascertaining skills far surpassing the authorities') detective conducts his investigation into the mysterious disappearance and death of Marie Rogêt entirely through newspaper articles. He systematically tears them apart and builds the story anew. Poe scores a point here, but fails to collect any more with just how tedious he makes it. It is a lengthy essay on probability and reasoning.
The extra half point stems not just from the originality but also as this doubles as Poe's own speculative deduction into the real life death/murder of a woman (Mary Rogers) in New York. The essential facts are the same, while the non-essential are subject to creative liberty.
There's some interesting (far from unique but amazingly (frighteningly?) still relevant some 180-years later) criticisms lobbied at tabloids/newspapers thrown in.
Ultimately, it was a predominantly boring and unsatisfactory story; a disappointing sequel to the Murders at the Rue Morgue.
Murders in the Rue Morgue (to which this is a sequel) was an investigative, speculative, and conclusive detective piece, which I was happy to have read.
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt is a speculative and, off-screen only, conclusive short story that drags through its own meandering, repetitive, and drab verbosity.
Our proto-Holmes amateur (though with deductive reasoning/ probability ascertaining skills far surpassing the authorities') detective conducts his investigation into the mysterious disappearance and death of Marie Rogêt entirely through newspaper articles. He systematically tears them apart and builds the story anew. Poe scores a point here, but fails to collect any more with just how tedious he makes it. It is a lengthy essay on probability and reasoning.
The extra half point stems not just from the originality but also as this doubles as Poe's own speculative deduction into the real life death/murder of a woman (Mary Rogers) in New York. The essential facts are the same, while the non-essential are subject to creative liberty.
There's some interesting (far from unique but amazingly (frighteningly?) still relevant some 180-years later) criticisms lobbied at tabloids/newspapers thrown in.
Ultimately, it was a predominantly boring and unsatisfactory story; a disappointing sequel to the Murders at the Rue Morgue.
zenodotus_zkf's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
4ndr3w's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
cspiteri's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.5
This was actually painful to get through. The longer it went on the more I wanted to just stop reading it.
The idea of using an actual murder mystery and actually trying to solve it is not a bad idea but Poe could have done a much better job at the structure of this story (also the prose in this story was extremely weak for a Poe story). I do not know why he choose to have so much of the story be cut outs from actual newspapers, that just repeated information, was useless or was information Dupin could have got himself instead of just over-analyzing other peoples facts. And yes that ending is atrocious, I know it is based on a real murder but most of the point of a murder mystery is the ending and to just deprive us of that was not a good choice.
The idea of using an actual murder mystery and actually trying to solve it is not a bad idea but Poe could have done a much better job at the structure of this story (also the prose in this story was extremely weak for a Poe story). I do not know why he choose to have so much of the story be cut outs from actual newspapers, that just repeated information, was useless or was information Dupin could have got himself instead of just over-analyzing other peoples facts. And yes that ending is atrocious, I know it is based on a real murder but most of the point of a murder mystery is the ending and to just deprive us of that was not a good choice.
gabibi4's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
heidenkind's review against another edition
1.0
Uhg, HORRIBLE. If only the person who'd killed Marie had been more obvious about it, I wouldn't have had to read this.
venusl0verblue's review against another edition
3.0
3/5 ⭐
Interesante. Comparado con Los crímenes de la calle Morgue este libro se centra principalmente en dejar en evidencia a los medios de comunicación como, en parte, los que provocan un cambio de rumbo en las investigaciones y el establecer una opinión popular que sus seguidores repetirán con otros como su opinión personal. No busca tanto, siento yo, el descubrimiento del victimario como en el libro antes mencionado.
Interesante. Comparado con Los crímenes de la calle Morgue este libro se centra principalmente en dejar en evidencia a los medios de comunicación como, en parte, los que provocan un cambio de rumbo en las investigaciones y el establecer una opinión popular que sus seguidores repetirán con otros como su opinión personal. No busca tanto, siento yo, el descubrimiento del victimario como en el libro antes mencionado.
billeylilley's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
1.0
I really didn't understand what was going on for most of this story. I think this is definitely a book that needs to be read rather than listened to on the audiobook as I don't think that helped me here.