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Set in the Puritanical society of 17th-century Boston, this novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a married woman who has an affair and gives birth to a daughter. Hester refuses to name her lover, but when her estranged husband appears unexpectedly, he determines to discover the man’s identity.Amazon.com Review
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this book was recommend 2 me from my neighbor. but i dont think that dis is dat gud of a book 2 recommend… i didnt like it 2 much but…
I am fixing to have to read this book for English 3, in high school, of course. I am really dreading it. I could honestly care less about adultery in New England way back then, and the length of the book is definitely going to make that a lot worse. I am positive I am going to have to analyze every paragraph in this dam book, I’m fixing to live up my summer!
This book is not as good as some other books, but it is much better than some books. That is why I gave it three stars and not no stars or five stars. Democracy prevails. Buy me a drink. Now, take off your clothers. Yes, just like that. I think we are beginning to understand each other…
I will never understand how “Classics” become Classics. So far for school i Have had to read far to many Classics. Dickens should be glad he is dead and does not have to read his books because they would probably kill him out of sheer boredom…
Hawthorne creates an ok tale, but really? It gets dragged out and is suppose to be realistic. Then he throws Pearl in there, she is like some super-human and belongs in fantasy. I never really did believe in the whole ‘they completely ostracized her but let her stitch everything.’ That is just a bit hypocritical, either she was excepted as prat of the society *which she was not) or she wasn’t (which she almost was. See that just doesn’t make any sense. The story is suppose to show how unforgiving the society was, but it doesn’t. It is better than Dickens, but then again everything is.
The abridged version of this book would read as so:
“Sin is inevitable. So make the best of bad situations. And oh by the way… women are strong.”
There ya go. Nuff said. I don’t need to read obnoxiously long sentences lamenting on one sentiment for the entire 160 odd pages or so of this travesty. The entire book is just one big complaint. From the girl who commits adultery. She laments about it for the whole stinking book and puts up with some obnoxious kid the for whole thing as well. Painfully thick language, stupid storyline, quixotic style… everything that would piss off a recreational reader. Avoid it.