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Sorry robin, you just brought back a bad memory for me of 11th grade english.
I am a voracious reader but I just couldn't get through that book.
I saw (in 11th grade English!) a very good dramatization of
The Scarlet Letter after we had spent weeks reading the book and being tested on it.
I remember thinking, "Oh, so
that's what was going on in that part."
Hawthorne seems to break the one of the cardinal rules of good storytelling as I've heard them; "Show, don't tell."