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This book is my second attempt at Forster. Last year, I read A Passage to India, which was very dull and obscure in its meaning. I enjoyed ARWAV better, but I still found the story to move slowly. This book took me a bit of time to read and it's only 200 pages. I'm reading the Introduction to the book now, so I'm starting to gain a better appreciation of what Forster was trying to do here, but overall, I don't think that I really liked any of the characters, except for Old Man Emerson and at tim
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This is my first venture into EM Forster. It was somewhat slow at first but became enjoyable as I adapted and accepted the style.
The sentences move you forward and the dialogue sends you back in time. Often I get a sense i wasn't catching it all and I think a second read would be enjoyable. That being said I felt transported to a different time and a different culture.
The book has some nice symbolism and colorful characters and a truth seems to ring true in how Lucy feels, allows her self to f ...more
The sentences move you forward and the dialogue sends you back in time. Often I get a sense i wasn't catching it all and I think a second read would be enjoyable. That being said I felt transported to a different time and a different culture.
The book has some nice symbolism and colorful characters and a truth seems to ring true in how Lucy feels, allows her self to f ...more
One of those rare occasions when the (Masterpiece Classic) movie is better than the book. I had a hard time with this book's anti-intellectualness, its 1910s standard gender dynamic, the flighty-silliness of it. [Note: I read the free Kindle edition. I am not sure if it was fully representative of the original.]
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