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July 20, 2010 at 4:29 pm
I grabbed this for the Kindle since it was free, and like the previous reviewer, I only had a vague idea of the story from various cartoon versions.
I was very pleasantly surprised. I’ve not read anything else by Washington Irving. The story is simple; the prose is easy to read but in spots is downright beautiful. Some of the scenic descriptions border on poetry. Irving writes with a dry sense of humor; and he has faith in the reader’s ability to connect the dots, so he doesn’t spell everything out.
It’s a short read – in print I guess it would be 30 to 40 pages. One GREAT thing about reading it on Kindle is having the dictionary function, as there were a number of archaic terms with which I was not familiar.
I give it 5 stars for the combination of price and quality of writing. If you’d like some good writing, a peek into America (upstate New York) at the end of the 18th century, and a little wit, go ahead and grab it – especially if it’s free!
Rating: 5 / 5
July 20, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Up to this point I had only seen the Disney cartoon the Legend of Sleepy Hallow which I loved as a kid. The story was very well written and I got caught up in the words and transported to Sleepy Hallow.
Rating: 4 / 5
July 20, 2010 at 8:11 pm
Not much to say about “Sleepy Hollow” or Irving that hasn’t already been said, but it gave me a real thrill to read this oldest of American fiction on the newest reading device — the Kindle! And it’s FREE! (You gotta love public domain stuff.)
Rating: 5 / 5
July 20, 2010 at 8:22 pm
A little slower to read than to watch the movie. I really enjoy the way that Washington Irving describes each scene. His discriptive semantics are much different than those of anybody else I have read. This will always be a classic, and a fun read.
Rating: 4 / 5
July 20, 2010 at 8:39 pm
This was a great short story to read. The text is from 1820 and with that the writing style and vocabulary is different than that of today and takes some getting used to. However, if anyone remembers the 1949 Disney adaptation of this story, the film is very true to the book. In the Kindle version, a quote at the beginning of the book was indecipherable as well as some proper nouns around 70%-80% of the way through the book. Other than that, I loved it.
Rating: 4 / 5