<p>Anyone liked (or at least enjoyed) this book?</p>
<p>I somewhat did, but I still have a burning passion for Hawthorne. I like to read economics and political books in my spare time, and its easy to say that Hawthorne has never read Locke(or was it Hobbes? ) nor Adam Smith. Philosophically speaking, the behavior of humans must be payed in a great deal of their initial action or greater, depending on the time for which it is not payed. This drives morality and our society forward by being able to make other individuals do progressive actions and reduce mistakes in the future.</p>
<p>This whole rant was mainly about the last chapter (punish DIMMESDALE, PUNISH HIM I SAY!)</p>
<p>So over all… 3.2 stars out of 5</p>
<p>NO.</p>
<p>I did not like that book. Personally, I generally don’t like books with main characters which aren’t either relatable or admirable. Dimmesdale and Hester are so caught up in the standards of their society…</p>
<p>Read it like a soap opera, or as a script for a really dramatic television show, and you’ll get through it.
I thought it was an interesting book overall and that there are many things in our culture that relate and make fun of the ideas presented in the book. But it was a difficult read for me, which is why I chose to read the No Fear version on Sparknotes to supplement the extremely detailed and boring passages Hawthorne writes.</p>
<p>Agreed.</p>
<p>I hate the minister with a passion. He is such a wimp. He should have just stated that he was the father and BAM, THE END.
And I absolutely hate perfect Pearl. And how cry-y Hester is. And how wimpy the minister is.</p>
<p>This book is the most boring book I have ever read in my life. Ugh. Hawthorne likes to describe asthetics for pages and pages on end. Nevertheless it portrays how society abides by its dictation, and oppression when one breaks the norm. I highly recommend using the sparknotes book with this to reinforce your literary learning. </p>
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<p>Finished the book a couple of days ago and now attempting to write the report that goes along with it.</p>
<p>Here is one of the question:</p>
<p>Did the outcome of the novel make you remember something from your past that you had forgotten.</p>
<p>UM? no?</p>
<p>I hated that book! It was so boring. I mean, overall, it has a great storyline and it was very interesting to read the summaries off Sparknotes. When I tried to read it, however, I wanted to shoot myself. So.many.pointless.details.</p>
<p>I felt the same way. The plot was interesting but it was too detailed and boring to read.</p>
<p>I loved that book…<3 SO good!</p>
<p>The story line’s interesting, but it’s a real snoozefest. :/</p>
<p>I actually liked it but that’s probably because I read the Sparknotes No Fear version when my class had to read it. I was one of the few in the class who actually understood everything that was going on (half of my class didn’t even READ the book because they were ‘confused’ even though I told a few people that Sparknotes has an easier version). :rolleyes:
And yes, this is Honors.</p>
<p>I read it as a sophomore, in Honors American Literature… I didn’t use Sparknotes and I was absolutely fine, lol. But maybe that’s because I enjoyed the book… Those who didn’t struggled. Or maybe they didn’t enjoy it because they struggled. Hard to say, but either way I loved the book… It’s like a giant character study, which I thought was neat. Hawthorne can be a bit verbose at times, but as a whole, his prose is beautiful and gives a very complete mental image. Plot is great, though the ending depressed me. All in all, lovely book!</p>
<p>It wasn’t terrible, but my experience with it was largely degraded by the fact that our teacher at the time was a raging feminist. Much of our class didn’t understand the old English prose (or were stalling for time because they had SparkNotes’ed the book) so she got to insert a long of her bias when paraphrasing what Hawthorne was saying, but all in all the plot was rather satisfying and engaging. I’d still say go for The Crucible if you’re looking for a early American witch-hunt type novel, though.</p>