It's so nice to reread a novel of this kind--especially when you are at an entirely different place in your life then when you last flipped the pages.
However, the intro almost ruins starting the book. Though it does set up that really cool (as in "ridiculously thorough") framework. I love knowing that this is what someone's imagination created out of a couple findings. And that someone else's imagination created that imagination's imagination. Way to go Nathaniel Hawthorne. His themes on love and lust, secrets, and guilt are generally universal and timeless and his characters are easy to relate to and picture. However, if he had written the book nowadays with that intro, I high doubt that it would have sparked as well. My attention span isn't even long enough to write more in this blog.
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