from flut3girl's apartment cleanout

If you aren't familiar with Bookcrossing, take a few minutes to check out this very cool site. Bookcrossers LOVE books, and more than anything, they love to read books and then set them free for other people to find and enjoy. I would love it if you would leave a journal entry -- you can say where you found the book or how you liked it when you read it. Then, when you are ready, pass it along for someone else to enjoy! Thanks and happy reading!

Thanks so much for some wishes granted, NancyNova (and Flut3Girl). I appreciate it ! I will write another note after reading this. I've been meaning to get to Pym SOON.

For a book that inspired at least three other books, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a bit of a mess here. ('An Antarctic Mystery'- Jules Verne (1897), 'At the Mountains of Madness' - H. P. Lovecraft (1936), 'Pym' - Mat Johnson (2011)). Published in 1837, Poe's 'Pym' is a bit of a seafaring adventure that runs into Antarctica and what they find there. Even if the footnotes weren't constantly either spoiling the later plot points of the book or pointing out flaws, I would still see some glaring problems here. Maybe this is why this is Poe's only novel and why he kept to short stories. Maybe he doesn't like the longer form. It seemed difficult for him to plot in advance -- though I believe this was published in pieces. But write the entire thing before the first part is published, Mr. Poe! The ending was interesting and maybe it's all the plot holes and problems that inspired the other books. We shall see. I read 'At the Mountains of Madness' years ago and LOVED that one. But I probably would have bailed on this book if I wasn't trying to read them all to get to Mat Johnson's book which I just KNOW will be good. On to 'Antarctic Mystery'...

Thanks again for sharing, NancyNova!