Team Edgar or Team Nathaniel?

Well, I really wish I could stay neutral in this question. I really dislike both of the authors, though I have a great respect for them too. I dislike Edgar due to his ability to lose the reader at times. Unless a person has read the story before, there will be a time where the that person will need to reread the section due to confusion or lack of understanding. I do a pretty good job with reading Edgar's stories though. He has a unique way of keeping the story to just drag on and on and on until the suspense is snapped and something happens. Nathaniel on the other hand can just drag a story along for no reason. His works are considered timely classics, though I do have a hard time of staying awake while reading his stories. One thing I do like about Hawthorne is that he symbolizes everthing in his stories. There are multiple stories and lessons just in one of his stories. Despite all of this I will have to side with Edgar. My reasoning is that Edgar can actually keep a reader reading his book. Yes the anticipation and the drawing out of normal instances can be quite annoying, but it forces the reader to wonder what will happen. Hawthorne just takes pages and pages to talk about random things. Just pure rambling.