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vikologia's review against another edition
1.0
I don't want to doubt Forster's talents, but this book is honestly a boring read. I am beginning to agree with Stephen King more and more with each day. There should be a story or at least an interesting way to tell something.
Aspect of the Novel is really going back and forth all the time. No structure... I managed to stand 1/3 of it. Maybe one day "I'll grow-up" and be able to go back to this book, maybe not.
Wouldn't recommend it actually. People, read Stephen King's "On Writing". It's way more useful in all possible aspects.
Aspect of the Novel is really going back and forth all the time. No structure... I managed to stand 1/3 of it. Maybe one day "I'll grow-up" and be able to go back to this book, maybe not.
Wouldn't recommend it actually. People, read Stephen King's "On Writing". It's way more useful in all possible aspects.
haly_reads's review against another edition
4.0
This book is exactly like the first lecture a B. A or M. A Literature student would hear on his/her first class. What makes it different is the fact that it is more elaborated. Forster explains each aspect that makes a novel with great depth yet clean and to the point. He is not the one who is satisfied only when every inch of his idea is put into paper. He refrains from giving a flow chart of the periods in English Literature, and which author belongs to which time frame. He doesn't meddle with chronology, more so, he is actually least interested in it. What Forster does is pick up selected extracts from novels to supply each aspect more clearly to the reader.
Before starting to read this book, one may easily take it as a helping guide to write a novel, given its lucid title. But no, this book ain't (just) for writers and novelists. It's actually more for readers to help their reading process better.
Before starting to read this book, one may easily take it as a helping guide to write a novel, given its lucid title. But no, this book ain't (just) for writers and novelists. It's actually more for readers to help their reading process better.
itsprobable's review against another edition
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
last book of 2022.. pretty good, appendices and intros were illuminating and i liked the first couple of lectures the most!
will read forster’s fiction next xxx
will read forster’s fiction next xxx
bookpossum's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed it to some extent, especially the laugh-out-loud moments where he points out how utterly ridiculous a plot is, or quotes a parody of Henry James by H G Wells. But many of the books of which he speaks are ones I have never even heard of and so I must confess that there were times when he lost me and I would rather have been elsewhere.
isering's review against another edition
2.0
Outdated - read something else instead! In a series of lectures, Forster strings together a few merry thoughts on writing (mainly, don't feel bad about breaking the rules). By the end, I don't remember much.