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andotherworlds's review against another edition
2.0
2 //oyy twas not pour moi. unfortunately this was a true pain to get through as little as it was. i was expecting the wit of Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and simply left with what felt like the longest 80 paged book (if you can refer to such a short thing) i've come across.
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This is part of my challenge of reading all 80 penguin little black books. This was book 1/80.
1. Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio
2. As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins
3. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue by Unknown, Katrina C. Attwood (Translator)
4. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
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This is part of my challenge of reading all 80 penguin little black books. This was book 1/80.
1. Mrs Rosie and the Priest by Giovanni Boccaccio
2. As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins
3. The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-tongue by Unknown, Katrina C. Attwood (Translator)
4. On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts by Thomas de Quincey
lilitherary's review against another edition
literally as the title says, murder if one appreciates it as a connoisseur of the arts, if you could look at murder at a gallery and talk about it as an art piece.
pretty interesting, though i was thinking it would be about how murder was aestheticized within art throughout the ages.
pretty interesting, though i was thinking it would be about how murder was aestheticized within art throughout the ages.
kippenautomat's review against another edition
4.0
Why create any art if not with the same energy as commiting a murder?
joyceontheroad's review against another edition
3.0
It was a quick read, yet not my favorite. The pace was good, yet the overall reading did require some attention to historical references.
avnaerrdy's review against another edition
3.0
I just am not well versed enough in history and philosophy to really be able to appreciate most of the points made... But the bits I did get I tended to enjoy