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midnightbagel 's review for:
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
*2.5 stars*
This one is hard to grapple in my mind. From an objective viewpoint, I love this. I love all the idea's it's toying with, I love the fractured main character, I love how you don't know what's real and what's not, and I love the ending. However, I just had a really hard time getting through it when I was actually reading it. James's sentences can be a little rough, and I just wasn't engaged throughout. A really, really fun novel to study after the fact though, and an incredibly influential horror story, just maybe on its own, James isn't for me. So, keeping in mind that I hold with a 2 star not being a bad rating, just being an "okay" rating, that's what I'll go with, and I'll tack on an extra half star for my appreciation of it overall.
This one is hard to grapple in my mind. From an objective viewpoint, I love this. I love all the idea's it's toying with, I love the fractured main character, I love how you don't know what's real and what's not, and I love the ending. However, I just had a really hard time getting through it when I was actually reading it. James's sentences can be a little rough, and I just wasn't engaged throughout. A really, really fun novel to study after the fact though, and an incredibly influential horror story, just maybe on its own, James isn't for me. So, keeping in mind that I hold with a 2 star not being a bad rating, just being an "okay" rating, that's what I'll go with, and I'll tack on an extra half star for my appreciation of it overall.