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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#1: Mar 11th 2014 at 11:00:56 PM

On this day I stumbled upon a topic elsewhere about "The Worst Books Ever." One poster, when describing his utter disdain for Michae L Crichton's "Micro", listed several other apparently infamously unpopular books as being better than it. These included Atlas Shrugged, Ulysses, The Giver and finally, The Scarlet Letter.

Now, at least three of those are 'classics" and The Giver was standard reading in my middle school for some classes.

I brought up this list and somehow it came back to The Catcher in the Rye, possibly the most hated "old book" I know of.

I know of why people dislike "Catcher" but what's wrong with The Scarlet Letter?

TamH70 Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#2: Mar 12th 2014 at 8:02:17 PM

Hmm. I dunno. Maybe it takes an effort to read through it, I guess?

death_vlk So, who's got a camera? from The Nightmare Corpse-City of R`lyeh Since: Jul, 2013
So, who's got a camera?
#3: Mar 14th 2014 at 6:43:23 PM

I was made to read The Scarlet Letter in high school. I didn't like it mainly because I didn't care for the premise. As I read through it, there was nothing really in the story that I found compelling or that made the premise interesting. Sure, Hester is an admirable woman, but that doesn't really make me interested in the story. I thought Dimmesdale was a contemptible coward and Chillingworth was just kind of...there. Overall, there was nothing in the story that appealed to me. Also it was slower than trying to pour frozen molasses.

And before anybody accuses me of disliking it just because it's an "old" book or something to that effect, I read and enjoyed Dante's Inferno about two years before I read The Scarlet Letter (I had planned to read Purgatory and Paradise as well but alas, life got in the way) and I also liked Poe's stories and poems.

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dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4: Mar 17th 2014 at 12:47:02 PM

The Divine Comedy was one hell of a book.

I did try to read TSL, but only finished a third of it. It felt too tedius.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
CorrTerek The Permanently Confused from The Bland Line Since: Jul, 2009
The Permanently Confused
#5: Mar 17th 2014 at 5:02:32 PM

I won't say TSA is a favorite, but I've read it all the way through and it's one of the few books I enjoy looking for symbolism in, simply because there's so much of it.

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