The Scarlet Letter

[Moses]

All in all, I thought it was a really good book. I don't understand why so many people at my school disliked it so.

I mean, yeah, Nathaniel Hawthorne sucked at grammar. Like, commas everywhere. But the story and morals and all that jazz was really good. I assert that it is all about attitude. The people that picked up this book thinking "This book sucks" thought the book sucked, and had a generally bad time reading it. I went into it saying "I bet I'm gonna like this book", and I had an awesome time reading it and enjoyed it. Let that be a lesson to you.



However, it was made significantly less good by the.... lets say "Unruly" amount of work we have to do in English Class. I mean. It's more work than the AP history class I have. With this much work, I almost deserve some college credits...


Anyways, I suggest this book to be read by those that have not read it, and those that did read it and did not like... well, maybe read it again with an open mind.




Edit: Also, this is one of those books where they cram some short stories at the end. I had heard of "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson before, but had never read it. Great short story.

Now, to work on my English work. Farewell!

[♫ Busan ♫]

I read The Scarlet Letter for English junior year. While I did like the story, the writing itself was very painful to go through.
And I read the Lottery in 9th grade. That was ...interesting. Kind of sat in my mind for a while.