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I wanted to love this book, learn about India’s history if even during a traumatic time, but the book never reeled me in.
None of the characters or storylines had any depth really. The characters seemed to be just stereotypes and none of them got out of their holes, or at least for very long and most of them slunk deeper. A few of the characters in the beginning I was resonating with, but they just all ended to be selfish, thoughtless, boors. There were no deep connections in the book even with ...more
None of the characters or storylines had any depth really. The characters seemed to be just stereotypes and none of them got out of their holes, or at least for very long and most of them slunk deeper. A few of the characters in the beginning I was resonating with, but they just all ended to be selfish, thoughtless, boors. There were no deep connections in the book even with ...more
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“The question shocked the young man very much. It challenged a new conviction of his community, and new convictions are more sensitive than old.”
“… the West can disturb but never acquire.”
“Observe, I don’t say to what do you turn, but to what do you return. Every life ought to contain both a turn and a return”
“The question shocked the young man very much. It challenged a new conviction of his community, and new convictions are more sensitive than old.”
“… the West can disturb but never acquire.”
“Observe, I don’t say to what do you turn, but to what do you return. Every life ought to contain both a turn and a return”
Sad but good
"A classic of modern fiction teeming with the complexity, mystery, and menace that lurk when cultures collide
"Hailed as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century and transformed into an Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India hauntingly evokes India at the peak of the British colonial era, complete with the racial tension that underscores every aspect of daily life. Into this setting, Forster introduces Adlea Quested and Mrs. Moore, British visitor to Chandrapore who, despite thei ...more
"Hailed as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century and transformed into an Academy Award-winning film, A Passage to India hauntingly evokes India at the peak of the British colonial era, complete with the racial tension that underscores every aspect of daily life. Into this setting, Forster introduces Adlea Quested and Mrs. Moore, British visitor to Chandrapore who, despite thei ...more
Honestly, dreadfully dull and beats you over the head with its moral.
Apr 30, 2010
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