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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book that I've just tipped over in love with in a long time.  <br/><br/>Having seen the movie Howard's End, and knowing that E.M. Forster wrote in the late 19th/early 20th century, and having watched that episode of The Office where the Finer Things Club discussed this book, I fu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18890192">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What a beautiful story!<br/>I really didn't know what to expect—would this be a character story, a philosophical one, a romance?  It ended up being a lovely mix of all three.  The story centers around Lucy, a young woman who realizes, for the first time, that she has ideas of her own.  In other w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7861699">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I find comedies of manners and WASP dramas about one's place in society so tiring... last night we finally got a true plot development and I woke up a bit. I'm such a bad &quot;girl&quot; reader this way. Cue some action, PLEASE.<br/><br/>UPDATE: I can't keep reading this. Taking it off the bedsid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13776451">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I own a beautiful copy of this book. It's a 1962 pocket edition hardcover printed in England and I have all of Forster's novels in a matching set of them. So when I say that I want to tear this book apart, please understand the very serious implications of that statement.<br/><br/>I want to break ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9334081">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Forster’s most delightful novel chronicles the awakening of Lucy Honeychurch, whose sojourn in Italy broadens her views, and ultimately her life, far beyond anyone’s expectations—not least of all her own! Forster draws the characters with precision, humor, and depth, from the spinsterish cousi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22346141">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>&lt;CENTER&gt;<strong> It's time to rediscover the wonderful books we all cherish.</strong></p> <p> Published in 1908, <em> A Room with A View</em> is one of E. M. Forster's most celebrated works. Forster explores love among a cast of eccentric characters gathered in an Italian pension and in a corner of Surrey, England. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Lucy Honeychurch must make a decision that will decide the course of her future: She is forced to choose between convention and passion.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This comes as a surprise. I really didn't expect that my favorite novel this summer would be a hundred-year-old Edwardian romance full of snobs, twits, and silly young girls. But every page of E M Forster's <em>A Room with a View</em> (1908) was a delight. The book is an almost perfect blend of humor and ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30240399">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found myself in the rare situation of reading a book after I've watched the movie.  Unfortunately, my mind was forced to conform to the images of the actors and actresses playing the parts of George and Lucy and Cecil.  Thankfully, they were good images and I was comforted to know that a movie I l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19285061">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While I was reading this I kept thinking about how similar it seemed to Pride and Prejudice. It is almost Pride and Prejudice in negative.  Now, some brief advice to young women who unexpectedly find themselves trapped in a romantic novel.  If you ever faint due to seeing a man stabbed and bleeding ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81170845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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