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Still liked this one, though comparisons between it and our current Puritanical government rankles.
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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Jan 16, 2012
Bradley
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really liked it
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I have wanted to read The Scarlet Letter for a long time. Parts of it were long and typical of what you'd consider a classic work but, over all, the book really is timeless.
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Dec 17, 2007
Katy Kennedy
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it was amazing
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Jun 25, 2008
Marlene
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it was ok
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