A review by pantea
The Ambassadors by Henry James

4.0

okay so yes i did read this in two days but i spent basically all day with it. this book, and so far anything i’ve read by henry james, requires patience and openness. some of these sentences are fucking hard to decipher but once you do, and you begin to understand henry’s patterns and language, it’s so satisfying and beautiful and entertaining. this story was really cool. e.m. forster described it in the shape of an hour glass; everything is planned and fits, nothing is decorative, it serves a purpose and i just think people are too hard on this man and his work.