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Howards End by E.M. Forster

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May 05, 08

Read in May, 2008

** spoiler alert ** read via dailylit.com

There were some strikingly-beautiful bouts of prose in here, but overall I was not very excited about this book. I think Forster may have been trying to be sympathetic to women--there was a weird sentence about how nobody realizes how painful childbirth is--but the attitudes of the male leads were heavily misogynistic and largely ugly.

I didn't understand Margaret and Henry's (view spoiler)[ marriage. It seemed strange that they were together so quickly and permanently after (in my head, "the real") Mrs. Wilcox's death.

Also, Leonard Bast is maybe the most downtrodden character I've ever met. Sheesh. Poor guy! (hide spoiler)]

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