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erinrouleaux 's review for:
The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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."