Oh I HAD to read it just to say I did. But it's BORING.
So is The Scarlet Letter.
Pretty much anything by Hawthorne or Melville. They are just not good reads.
But anything by Mark Twain really holds up. Not sure why.
Even Ben Franklin holds up, and he wrote 100 years before these guys. Gotta love his essays on farting and old women as lovers.
I loved Catcher In The Rye. Don't understand the hatin'. Plus you have to contrast the theme with Lord of the Flies.
James A Michener
guy could write 1,000 page short stories
ugh