Saturday, March 29, 2008
The Independent Reading Odyssey continues...stuff your ears lest the sirens lead you astray...
Okay, so its that time again!! A new set of stories is at my disposal: the Dupin stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Dupin, as i stated in the previous post, is the true patriarch of fictitious sleuthing and was the first ever to use the method of deduction - though he never openly stated that "hey, i'm deducing" like Holmes so often does. Dupin's method is actually called "ratiocination", a method where he tries to think like the criminal and put himself in the criminal's shoes, but this method incorporates deduction within it. I will be reading "The Murders on the Rue Morgue", "The Purloined Letter", and any other Dupin story i can get my eager hands on. Till we meet again.
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yay, i'm actually very excited to read as this story develops, there will be great analysis going on, mwhahaha.
So, in the meantime, nice job on your catch up posts, you covered a lot, and finally tied up the ends of Ms. Marple, i feel ready to move on.
His method just sounds really interesting! To think like a criminal, was he one in his past? And there is this show...on CBS i think, called Dexter, and it's basically that, he is a serial murderer, and now he helps track down other ones. So you GOT to check that out and tell me how it compares to Poe.
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