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jesforeverlostinbooks 's review for:
A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster
slow-paced
“…there is only one perfect view—the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it." … “He carried her to the window, so that she, too, saw all the view.”
So I have mixed feelings about this classic A Room with a View… I read it as part of a classic buddy read & we plan on watching the movie later this month. I’m pretty sure I’ll enjoy the movie more than the book. I just struggled with the writing. This is supposed to be a romance but it’s just lacking. for example when the male MC kisses the female MC that is all the author writes… he kisses her. It lacks passion although this book is supposed to be about a passionate young woman who struggles with society rules. Lucy Honeychurch is young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian Era England. Set in Italy & England, the story is both a romance & a humorous critique of English society. It was mildly entertaining, & my favorite character was Mr. Emerson… he is sweet, unconventional & full of wisdom. Unfortunately his son George sadly was a very blah character. And Lucy was kind of boring until the moment she breaks up with her lame fiance & all of the sudden I’m invested… it seemed like the writing became more beautiful after that. It definitely was a slow start, but Forster managed to win me over in the end.
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. … She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”
So I have mixed feelings about this classic A Room with a View… I read it as part of a classic buddy read & we plan on watching the movie later this month. I’m pretty sure I’ll enjoy the movie more than the book. I just struggled with the writing. This is supposed to be a romance but it’s just lacking. for example when the male MC kisses the female MC that is all the author writes… he kisses her. It lacks passion although this book is supposed to be about a passionate young woman who struggles with society rules. Lucy Honeychurch is young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian Era England. Set in Italy & England, the story is both a romance & a humorous critique of English society. It was mildly entertaining, & my favorite character was Mr. Emerson… he is sweet, unconventional & full of wisdom. Unfortunately his son George sadly was a very blah character. And Lucy was kind of boring until the moment she breaks up with her lame fiance & all of the sudden I’m invested… it seemed like the writing became more beautiful after that. It definitely was a slow start, but Forster managed to win me over in the end.
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
“It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. … She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?”