Not strange. Uncommon. Not one to follow the herd (or maybe one who follows the herd, except generations later- that's what I tend to do).
I prefer Dumas to Hugo myself, though I do like both, but Hawthorne I love. I was the only one in tenth grade English who was happy to read The Scarlet Letter (and the only one who'd read it before), and I've dragged all sorts of people to the infamous House of Seven Gables (even if they've refused to read the book). Salem has turned it into quite the well-done museum these days. Hawthorne and Melville get tarred with the same "boring classics no one willingly reads" brush, though, you're right. Too bad.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2003-08-12 03:38 am (UTC)I prefer Dumas to Hugo myself, though I do like both, but Hawthorne I love. I was the only one in tenth grade English who was happy to read The Scarlet Letter (and the only one who'd read it before), and I've dragged all sorts of people to the infamous House of Seven Gables (even if they've refused to read the book). Salem has turned it into quite the well-done museum these days. Hawthorne and Melville get tarred with the same "boring classics no one willingly reads" brush, though, you're right. Too bad.