RedskinsFan28 Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 Is there anyone who actually remembers reading this book and actually liked it?? I'm doing a project on it dealing with archetypes, and I am confused over some of these. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booyeahfool Posted March 19, 2008 Share Posted March 19, 2008 I read it earlier this school year back in September... not exactly my favorite book but it wasn't awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonJeremy Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Yeah, I read the book in high school (sophomore english class) long before Al Gore invented the internet...and you couldn't google The Scarlett Letter or ask for help on a message board....we just had to suck it up and read it...and learn something. Get to work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Yeah! Consider it a rite of passage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 That book made me wonder just who the *******s were that decided what books were "classics". It's terrible. Absolutely terrible. Luckily not all classics turned out to be as horrible as the Scarlet Letter. Total garbage! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsHokieFan Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 That book made me wonder just who the *******s were that decided what books were "classics". It's terrible. Absolutely terrible. Luckily not all classics turned out to be as horrible as the Scarlet Letter. Total garbage! I am with you on that. No idea why every single high school aged kid has to read that book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCS Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Yeah. Get to work. I didn't mind the Scarlett Letter actually. Little dry but okay. I do however, want to know who decided that Wuthering Heights was a classic. Yeesh that book was boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissU28 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Yeah. Get to work. I didn't mind the Scarlett Letter actually. Little dry but okay. I do however, want to know who decided that Wuthering Heights was a classic. Yeesh that book was boring. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was worse. Cliffnotes all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Tell the instructor that, in honor of his death, you've decided to read Arthur Clarke's Childhood's End, instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techboy Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I didn't mind the Scarlett Letter actually. Little dry but okay. I do however, want to know who decided that Wuthering Heights was a classic. Yeesh that book was boring. Perhaps you'd like the movie version better? Monty Python Presents Wuthering Heights in Sempahore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midnight Judges Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I am with you on that. No idea why every single high school aged kid has to read that book I third this sentiment. That book sucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JCB Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 Hawthorne's short fiction is some of the finest ever written. I've never found that his novels were as good, though "The Scarlet Letter" is probably my favorite of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMP Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I thought the Scarlet Letter was a bit confusing at points, but not bad. Main Street was much worse. Completely and utterly boring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
endzone_dave Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I remember having to read The Scarlet Letter and Pride and Prejudice in high school. I wonder why I hated English class so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad89 Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I didn't think the Scarlet Letter was that bad actually. Now Wuthering Heights..that was..interesting. The incest and oddity of the main character was enough to keep it readable. I think I ultimately went to sparknotes for that one. I just started reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and that's some good fiction. If they had High School kids reading that instead of Wuthering Heights and the Scarlet Letter, more kids might actually enjoy English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I thought The Scarlett Letter was ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted March 20, 2008 Share Posted March 20, 2008 I just started reading A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and that's some good fiction. If they had High School kids reading that instead of Wuthering Heights and the Scarlet Letter, more kids might actually enjoy English. I think Starship Troopers would be a good teaching book. It looks, at first glance, like a gung-ho shoot-em-up space opera. But there's some really adult topics in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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