The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket and Related Tales

This was rather exciting-for the most part. We have shipwrecks, a mutiny, shark attacks, bear attacks, exciting fights and escapes. It would be hard to be bored with the first half of this novel. And then, after a major character dies, Arthur's voice suddenly goes away and it becomes more of a nature diary listing (mostly) bird life. I found this section to be quite a chore and then the action picked back up when they reached the island.
I love this line from the introduction (written by Jeffrey Meyers), “His Narrative starts as a juvenile adventure and ends as a horror story.” That's pretty spot on.
The abrupt ending must be why no one has made a Pym movie.