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While "only connect . . ." is the book's epigraph, this book also makes me think of the Dalai Lama's statement that "kindness without wisdom is cruelty." The Wilcox family may be positioned as the book's villians but both Schlegel women cause their share of harm too and only faintly seem to make their own connections.
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It took me a long while to get into the book. As the matter of fact, I still don't like his writing style - it was too confusing to me. I felt that conversations were fused together that I often didn't know who was talking. However, after finishing the book, his writing style became a minor flaw in my eyes. I just loved his character developments, and I just couldn't get over the plot! I really wanted to know if Margaget would ever find out that Mrs. Wilcox had bequeathed her Howards End. On the
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This story is remarkable! Great writing, interesting philosophies, characters that are almost real, beautiful sceneries and an indictment on how we sometimes judge others while overlooking our own faults. I truly enjoyed this book!
The writing flows and washes over me and I sense that E.M. Forester seems ambivalent and wistful about the transition from an agrarian culture to a modern era. For me he evoked the era better than almost any other other (note the almost!).
Oct 17, 2008
Marian
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