The House of the Seven Gables

**1/2

PG

{UM} {L}

Could Recommend

Very verbose!!!  I guess that's how a lot of these old classics are right?  There were just too many inconsequential things that were explained in great detail.  Therefore, I did not speed through it at the pace I am used to.

However, it had an interesting storyline (when you could find it)

A few instances of the Lord's name in vain {L} and a few {UM}

It is a ghostly type story which I guess I didn't realize when I bought it while on my trip to New Hampshire several years ago to visit my sister.  At the time I was looking for something to read on the plane ride home.  I was just feeling the need for more classics in my life and thought that would be a good one with which to start.  Since it took me years to actually read it, I worry about my self improvement plan and its effectiveness :)

Anyway, does it make me a terribly uncultured swine of a person to not have loved this book?...I mean two and a half stars...