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Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
2.0

Alas but it falls to me to denigrate such a classic of American literature. The melodrama! That passionate love for a good listener, that wedding pickle dish broken, that attempted joint-suicide by deliberately crashing a sled into an elm tree (points for creativity, I suppose). I didn't have enough sympathy for the characters to keep from laughing. How hard-hearted I am.

The descriptions of Massachusetts winters read lovely and true, though I do like them a lot better than everyone in this book seemed to.