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Still liked this one, though comparisons between it and our current Puritanical government rankles.
Original review appeared at Jayne's Books.
This was a book I had been wanting to read for quite sometime due to just the fact of the nature of what it dealt with and because its a book that is referred to in many ways. I think expected something more than what I actually encountered. While it was well-written, I did find it a bit mundane and sometimes a little dull and slow moving. While I understand the point of the book, it just felt like there was something missing and I suppose it was because ...more
This was a book I had been wanting to read for quite sometime due to just the fact of the nature of what it dealt with and because its a book that is referred to in many ways. I think expected something more than what I actually encountered. While it was well-written, I did find it a bit mundane and sometimes a little dull and slow moving. While I understand the point of the book, it just felt like there was something missing and I suppose it was because ...more
Dawn gave me this book in the stack of classics with which she sent me off to Egypt in 2004. I finally read it, and it is indeed a classic. I slogged through the introduction, and when I asked my dad about it, he said, "No author would include something like that in a novel anymore." I could've skipped it, I guess, but little did I know. Anyway, it's very good. Wow, the Puritan life was suffocating, but I tried to avoid reading with a presentist view... The language is very accessible, for 17th-
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