Anne of Geierstein Book

Stowe does it again: preachy and righteous, and, unlike "Uncle Tom's Cabin", there was very little going on in the plot of this book. The moral of the story is that divorce shouldn't be got so easily, and the book is structured in such a way that for every bit of action, there is tons of moral commentary from Stowe. Why wasn't she just honest about what she was doing? Call it a book of sermons and save it for Sundays. At points, I was writhing on the couch because it was such agony to read. I skimmed the last 50 pages because I simply could no longer take it seriously. She comments toward the end that readers might be out of patience with the amount of patience the suffering husband had for his selfish and unloving wife or for the wife herself. No...I was out of patience with Stowe's sermonizing and oversimplification of "bad" and "good." Do not waste your time on this piece of 19th-century tripe!