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Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

Edgar Huntly, Or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Very Interestingly Confusing
Review: This book (the cover amazon has displayed is *wrong*) is very interesting. It is also exceedingly strange. It was never boring, but it never made too much sense either. You think there might be supernatural elements involved -- but maybe not. It's a tale of the coming to America from England, the stuff that happens to the British here, and Indians. Cool, confusing, book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another masterpiece overlooked...
Review: This book is truly one of the most interesting and purely entertaining books I've ever read. The creepy imagery of the sleepwalking man digging in the street and then the caves and indians will stick with me forever. What an amazingly creative man. An x-files-esque dreamer living in the 1790s.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Another masterpiece overlooked...
Review: This book is truly one of the most interesting and purely entertaining books I've ever read. The creepy imagery of the sleepwalking man digging in the street and then the caves and indians will stick with me forever. What an amazingly creative man. An x-files-esque dreamer living in the 1790s.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Brockden Brown's Twisted Imagination
Review: This novel is an excellent journey through the dark, disturbing wilderness of 18th century America and its dangers. The wars that raged between Natives and their oppressors (the English) are here brutally portrayed. With a new introduction to English literature of the effects of sleepwalking, this is also a journey through the psychology of a psychotic sleepwalker, and the devils that haunt him. An excellent read for those searching for the natural horror of humanity, with a little suggestion of the supernatural, though very heavy both in language, and symbolism and metaphor. A tough read, but well worth it.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Brockden Brown's Twisted Imagination
Review: This novel is an excellent journey through the dark, disturbing wilderness of 18th century America and its dangers. The wars that raged between Natives and their oppressors (the English) are here brutally portrayed. With a new introduction to English literature of the effects of sleepwalking, this is also a journey through the psychology of a psychotic sleepwalker, and the devils that haunt him. An excellent read for those searching for the natural horror of humanity, with a little suggestion of the supernatural, though very heavy both in language, and symbolism and metaphor. A tough read, but well worth it.


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