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ilewis 's review for:
A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster
I felt kind of guilty about how much I enjoyed this book. It follows the trials and travails of upper middle class British people and marriage. That being said, it is a fun and interesting read. Forster is quietly subversive and somewhat subverts the whole genre. There are some interesting ideas about how modernity has redefined the idea of love, marriage, and match making. How an older version of "romance" stifled people, although how even those that seem to hold up the old ways can quietly subvert it with some self-reflection.
I read a later version of the book that had an afterward by Forster about where the characters might be after 40 years. Hearing where the characters went from the ending was enlightening, in particular how decisions have long ranging effects for good and bad.
It was a lot of fund to read, and I would recommend it (especially for beach reading you don't have to feel guilty about.) That being said, I really can't relate to falling madly in love within 3 meetings and then marrying. I don't understand how anybody anywhere ever thought that was a good idea, except strictly in the system where marriage was more about economics than love.
I read a later version of the book that had an afterward by Forster about where the characters might be after 40 years. Hearing where the characters went from the ending was enlightening, in particular how decisions have long ranging effects for good and bad.
It was a lot of fund to read, and I would recommend it (especially for beach reading you don't have to feel guilty about.) That being said, I really can't relate to falling madly in love within 3 meetings and then marrying. I don't understand how anybody anywhere ever thought that was a good idea, except strictly in the system where marriage was more about economics than love.