A Room with a View in Reading the Classics

Aug 15, 2020 Ahtims rated it liked it

Shelves: borrowed, buddy-group-reads, ebooks

Started the book with great hopes , but found it too boring . Then as per the advice of a couple of friends , switched to the audio version and it was better . The story of a young lady torn between two lovers of opposing characters amidst the oppressive higher class British society of the late 19th or perhaps early 20th century.

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Aug 05, 2012 Katie rated it really liked it

I am aware there are those who find this novel dry and dull, and I understand where many of them are coming from: we've read this story of English love; we've read it many a time. But here's the thing: actually we haven't.

Prior to plowing through this book today, in a rare fit of affection for victorian British lit, I tried to start both Wuthering Heights and Persuasion, and couldn't get more than ten pages into either. Not so for this story. There are the traditionalish struggles between passi ...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: ebook, on-the-kindle, 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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