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3.2 AVERAGE
3.2 AVERAGE
It took me TEN MONTHS to get through this book and it's only 400 short pages. I just kept putting it down and reading another. I feel like maybe I didn't put my all into it, but really I think it was just dry and slow and boring and the point it made could have been made in a short essay. I really don't know why he bothered developing anything because I didn't learn anything from the developments of character or plot. The only things I did learn came from little tangents he went off on. And the story wasn't intriguing at all. I picked it up last October hoping it would make for a good Halloween read, but really there was nothing spectacular about it.
I thought this summed it up pretty well:
"Hawthorne is the equivalent of nudging someone and winking without actually thinking of anything interesting, risque, beautiful, or even useful. It is sad that a man with such a voluminous writing ability was seemingly devoid of any notion of what to do with it."
I thought this summed it up pretty well:
"Hawthorne is the equivalent of nudging someone and winking without actually thinking of anything interesting, risque, beautiful, or even useful. It is sad that a man with such a voluminous writing ability was seemingly devoid of any notion of what to do with it."
Oh holy crap, I love Hawthorne. I know a lot of people say he's too heavy, and long-winded and rambling and intrusive with his narration, but those people are idiots. He's a freaking genius. Chapter 18 of HOTSG is one of the best things ever written down. This book took me a good while to get through, but the last like 50 pages were so awesome. It's completely worth it.
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No