I never read The Scarlet Letter in high school. This may have been a good thing, since I don't know if I would have appreciated it at the time. Then again, that wouldn't have been long before I read Les Misérables for the first time, and I loved it right away. Maybe I'm just designed to enjoy 19th c...
Read it as a class requirement, I like the imagery, but that is about it, not really crazy about the story, sorry. I feel like this being one of the great classics I should be doing backflips for it, but the truth is that the story just wasn't for me.
Finally! This whole book was 180 pages which could've been 100 pages shorter! There is a severe lack of character development and empathy. I don't feel anything for any of the characters and I really hated Dinmesdale, the freaking bastard coward. Basically, he was a static char who needs to grow som...
It's basically a character-driven book. Most of the action goes on within the characters' hearts. There's very little dialogue. And the few dialogues that there are sounded most unnatural to me, and that not just because of use of classical pronouns like 'thee' and 'thou.' The book presents interest...
While being a elegantly written and composed story the tale of a puritan society I believe was better told by Arthur Miller in his "The Crucible". It seems that Nathaniel Hawthorne tries to convey how the all pervasive power of stifling religion kills life, love and all pursuits of pleasure but he d...
I honestly didn't know what to expect from this book. Even though it had a rather interesting plot line, I knew it is an old book, and therefore probably written in a style that didn't appeal to me. All in all though, I really enjoyed this. The story itself was wonderful, and even though the writing...
Although the book is dated of course, I found it quite impressive. It certainly is worth reading, to get to know a world of which one hardly can believe it ever existed.
A real masterpiece of American literature. The story is set in a puritan land where a woman has born an illegitimate child. She is forced then to wear a scarlet letter 'A' as a sign of a punishment for her adultery. The character portrays are delightfully structured, and the whole story analyzes the...
It took forever for me to finish this book because of how crazy my life was at the time, but I'm glad I was finally able to finish it. It's a classic for a reason.
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