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    <body><![CDATA[Sometimes the idea of rankings is tedious and shallow, especially when it comes to novels, but this book has to be one of the twenty greatest books written in English in the last century.  In addition to being a gripping, at times harrowing, story, the overall form of the book is perfectly construct...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20378312">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somewhat to my surprise, I discovered that this book is seen by many as a sort of force for good. Last year, my mother spontaneously borrowed the DVD of the 1984 adaptation for me, saying “I think you should watch this.” Incidentally, it is very good - very faithful to the book. Later, my boyfri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31038334">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading this novel again - although I’m torn about what to think of it, ideologically speaking. I like Forster - Howards End in particular - and I think his portrayal of colonial relations in India is complex and interesting, and does not necessarily come out in favor of the English. Yet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4963725">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I completely related with one of the main characters in the book, Miss Questad. She accuses an Indian man of assaulting her while they are hiking in some caves (sorry if I just gave part of it away) and realizes later that she made a mistake. Her mistake brings out the worst of racial tensions and c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18141415">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Classic of Epic Proportions!<br/><br/>First published in 1924, over the vast sweeping landscape of India under British rule A Passage to India examines the cultural differences between the Indians and the English.<br/><br/>As the novel opens Ms. Adela Quested and her potential mother in-law, M...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5802769">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Honestly, I can't believe I had never read this book before. I should thank Ginger and Katherine for wanting to read it together because I don't know when or if I would have ever gotten around to reading it. Forster is so magnificent. Next I should read his &quot;Where Angels Fear to Tread.&quot; <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23672519">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic story about learning to understand our fellow man and the social barriers that obstruct that understanding. Almost a century after “A Passage to India” was published, the book remains as timely as ever. Our country is currently at war and while it has been described as a War on Terror,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53450711">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I thoroughly enjoyed A Passage to India and am now officially a Forster fan. Frankly, I'm not certain how I made it this far through my education without ever picking him up. I can't add much to what's already been written about this book, but I'll mention a few impressions anyway.<br/><br/>Forste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28023645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Contrary to what you might expect &quot;Passage&quot; is not a travel guide to India. Most of the book, in fact, takes place in the sleepy little village of Chandrapore. Or at least, it's sleepy for half the book. Then it becomes a hotbed of controversy and a public trial of the British occupation o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24834326">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hailed at its publication as Forster’s masterpiece, <em>A Passage to India</em> explores the complex relationship between Indians and the colonial English, a relationship muddled by racism, cultural misunderstandings, and inherent religious and philosophical incompatibility. The essential question of the n...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22345515">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When I've read this novel, I've recalled the situation of the multicultural societies. How (difference) is still unsolved problem among people. The British Imperialism was dified by Indians regardless their various sects. This reminds me of most of the Iraqis' attitude toward the invasion of the USM...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7288730">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;I can't avoid the label. What I do hope to avoid is the mentality.&quot;<br/><br/>The idea of language (and naming) as the ultimate destroyer of the individual intrigues me. That we lose all sense of self the moment we are given a name by our parents. That something as simple as a label can ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1856389">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[For the first section of the novel, I was thoroughly bored, but I persevered because I knew there had to be a reason it was a &quot;classic&quot;; also, the relationship between East and West has always intrigued me, partly because I embody it.<br/><br/>The second section of the novel, &quot;Caves...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2899426">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a complicated and sad story. It offered a dispassionate look at relationships that was sometimes quite wrenching. I found a degree of satire in Forrester's prose; or else a sort of veiled contempt at Britain's institutionalized colonialism and hereditary victorianism - and plenty of evidenc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/126360">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not wildly enthusiastic about this book. It gives you an interesting view of India as a British colony, and some of the descriptions are lovely, but overall I found it quite dry and hard to read in anything but little chunks. The story itself isn't wildly inventive, of course: it reminded me a l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28332848">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book shifts underfoot a lot, clumps of prose I couldn't penetrate and then a paragraph of such exquisite insight that I was torn between getting up and finding a pen or staying where I was and re-reading it seven or eight times. In a way, it's prose verite: things are hectic, or boring and you'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14405189">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[(18)<br/>بريطانيا الأمس .. أمريكا اليوم<br/>نحاول في عرضنا هذا لرواية – ممر إلى الهند للكاتب البريطاني فورستر – تناول التناقضات الحضارية والإنسانية التي وردت في الكتاب ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59524856">more...</a>]]></body>
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