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The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Mar 11, 2017 Jen from Quebec :0) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-i-ve-read, read-the-audio-book, aty-challenge, disney-challenge, school, reading-challenge-books, books-i-ve-been-putting-off

I FINALLY read this (great) book! This has been on my TBR for a long long time, and I finally read it as part of a Group Read for a group here on the site and man, am I GLAD that I did! It took some twists and turns that I did not expect and had a very unique narration/writing style, especially in the last half. It was almost as if we were being told this story by a group of people, ala a chorus in an old play. For example "we bring you now to the part where..." or "you must understand that we d ...more

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Jun 01, 2017 Grace rated it it was amazing

Shelves: mccrum-s-100-greatest, 2017-reads

#16 on "the list".... Writing this pretty far post reading as I get my Good Reads account underway.
I believe this was my third time reading SL and it seems to become more relevant and "deep" with each read. Enjoyed it immensely.
An explanation of my star rating.
5= Truly cream of the crop. Amazing. In a wondrous realm of their own
4= Special and well written. Truly a good/maybe great book, but not a rare 5 star wonder.
3= Moments of brilliance, a pleasure to read. I'd recommend it.
2= An average bo ...more

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