I don't seem to have settings? I'll stop bothering you about this, though, as it isn't terribly important.
I haven't read even the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, so I think we're about even on Hawthorne reading--Twenty Days counts in my mind as half a book, maybe.
Re: Melville, you haven't read Bartleby the Scrivener? I thought we had a conversation about that book once. But then I haven't read it, either, so that doesn't mean much. Moby-Dick is certainly worth reading. It's long and sometimes it's powerfully boring, and it's really really masculine, and people who love it tend to have had teachers who loved it, but in addition to all those things it's really pretty awesome. Also, there is Ahab's Wife, which in my heart of hearts I love more than Moby-Dick itself...
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I haven't read even the introduction to The Scarlet Letter, so I think we're about even on Hawthorne reading--Twenty Days counts in my mind as half a book, maybe.
Re: Melville, you haven't read Bartleby the Scrivener? I thought we had a conversation about that book once. But then I haven't read it, either, so that doesn't mean much. Moby-Dick is certainly worth reading. It's long and sometimes it's powerfully boring, and it's really really masculine, and people who love it tend to have had teachers who loved it, but in addition to all those things it's really pretty awesome. Also, there is Ahab's Wife, which in my heart of hearts I love more than Moby-Dick itself...