A Room with a View in Reading the Classics

Apr 10, 2012 Angie Palau rated it it was amazing

I re-read this book for bookclub, and I thoroughly enjoyed it again. I'm such a Monstrous Fan of the wonderful Merchant-Ivory movie production that it's a challenge to look at the book as a stand-alone. In fact, I wasn't particularly successful, since the movie follows the book so faithfully, it was almost like watching the film in my head as I read.

But the characterization is a little different, and social commentary is even more pointed in the book than in the movie. The movie suggested the d ...more

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Sep 10, 2013 Nanci Svensson rated it really liked it

It's really 4,5 stars. Turns out that the horrible movie was not Forster's fault, but everyone else involved should be hanged; I was perfectly enchanted by this Roman Culture-o-Philic novel. Ah, I pity the fall of the (more recent) Empire, the aristocracy snubs each other so masterly sublime!

Actually, it would be fun to take any novel by Forster, Maugham, Waugh or Henry James and substitute the man whore synonym "cad" with "douche bag". But I'm digressing. ...more

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May 18, 2014 Mindy rated it really liked it

This was also part of my trip to Italy reading list being set in Florence. Loved the irony and the stabs at British formality and manners. Found Lucy to be very likeable and it was easy to see her struggle with the expectations of the times and her own need to defy those in a way that was commensurate with her background/upbringing.

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Dec 16, 2011 Moira added it · review of another edition

Shelves: on-the-kindle, ebook, 2013-queue

nnrrrrrrrgh Penguin you lying fucking bastards you said "View without a Room" was in here which is why I bought this edition. Argh.

Oh EXCELLENT WELL it's in the hard copy 1983 OOP version. Damn! ...more

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