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Only read The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne before and I enjoyed that. This though, was another story. It started well enough with a Poe-like sense of mystery and doom foretold. But then it tailed off into meandering prose and finished fairly predictably.
Hawthorne is not my favourite writer, I have to say. I found it pretty hard to keep track of what was going on. Okay, I was listening to the audio book and your attention can drift when you do that, but if the book is a good one (as Scarlet was), ...more
Hawthorne is not my favourite writer, I have to say. I found it pretty hard to keep track of what was going on. Okay, I was listening to the audio book and your attention can drift when you do that, but if the book is a good one (as Scarlet was), ...more
I remember my parents buying me this book when we actually visited the House fo Seven Gables in Massachusetts on a family vacation. I remembered reading the book then as a young man, never completely appreciating the larger themes of guilt, retribution, and atonement. Very nice character development in this book.
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Ermmm... Not nearly as good as I thought it would be, based on The Scarlet Letter and his short stories. It wasn't bad, but it also wasn't Great.
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