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Got to page 140 and found my patience wearing thin. Liked the first chapter on Mrs. Crane, but then found second chapter, with shifting elliptical view of events to be harder to follow, even though I'd seen the BBC television production years back. (I liked the movie better, in a reversal of the usual case.) Third chapter got even more tiresome, and by now the theme of "East is East and West Is West, and Ne'er the Twain Shall Meet" had gotten overworked. Rather than do a forced march through a n
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I feel like I really slogged through this book. In the end I liked the story and the general commentary on England/India relationships but wow it took so long to get there.
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