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Short, sweet, and beautiful.
This was the perfect choice to thumb through during my days in Rome, and to make me miss all of Italy as we flew away home.
This was the perfect choice to thumb through during my days in Rome, and to make me miss all of Italy as we flew away home.
Not a lot of substance here, but it's a deft skewering of English middle class values at the turn of the last century, although Forster needed to work a little harder at removing the mote in his own eye in regard to Italians!
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I haven't read Forester in a while and I had forgotten how great he is with dialogue. The conversations in this book whiz by. I think it was his first novel and you can definitely sense that in terms of structure and plot. It's not as tightly written as A Room With a View, but I enjoyed it.
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more interesting for the social commentary than a story.
Didn't feel that emotionally attached to anything about this. I read it in a couple of hours and easily forgot everything. I was surprised by the difference between this and Maurice.
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Jan 04, 2013
Mirja
marked it as to-read
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Aug 13, 2017
Terri
marked it as boxall-s-1001
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