Recommends it for: Marquis DeSade companions only

This book can only be read by a very calm, patientand sadistic person. The dialogue isn't exactly the easiest to follow (as is for most books from the freaking 19th certury!)

Now you'll ask why I'm writing about it yeah? It's very, very simple you see... I read this a few years ago and have held in my remarks about it. But no more. This, while not a scathing exposé certainly isn't for the faint hearted.

For if there was a hell, Hawthorne would be the devil's sidekick. And the very first thing you'd be given as punishment is this very novel. Also you'll have to do a 10 page paper citing the many virtues of the book (you won't find none). 

I'll have to admit - in the interest of impartiality - the only thing The Scarlet letter did for me was improve my vocabulary. You find many a term you can use to impress your peers and professors and might even practice the dialogue with emotion should you choose to be actor.

And yet none of those things would save you from the horror of the red letter.

The doctor...

Hester Prynn...

The waste of a man, father of her child who didn't even lift a hand to protect her. And the sociological study that is the society who publicly sought yet privately failed to condemn her.