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gracierogers 's review for:
A Room With a View
by E.M. Forster
This took me a really long time to get through for such a short book - lots of putting it down for weeks then picking it up for a few pages.
I can’t figure out exactly why it didn’t work for me, but I really did find myself getting bored. Enjoyed the writing style and the humour of it, and ultimately Forster is engaging with somewhat ‘radical’ concepts, but I think my issue was with the genre of the book.
It certainly doesn’t carry the charisma of a romance - the end couple were not engaging enough together, or perhaps there just wasn’t enough of them featured to make it an anticipated get-together. At the same time, though I feel social commentary was the goal, it didn’t quite approach the interesting topics it covered with enough gusto to make that the gripping factor.
A little of everything, then, but maybe nothing in enough depth? I didn’t dislike the book, glad I finished it, but I won’t pick it up again. Will try more of Forster’s work though!
I can’t figure out exactly why it didn’t work for me, but I really did find myself getting bored. Enjoyed the writing style and the humour of it, and ultimately Forster is engaging with somewhat ‘radical’ concepts, but I think my issue was with the genre of the book.
It certainly doesn’t carry the charisma of a romance - the end couple were not engaging enough together, or perhaps there just wasn’t enough of them featured to make it an anticipated get-together. At the same time, though I feel social commentary was the goal, it didn’t quite approach the interesting topics it covered with enough gusto to make that the gripping factor.
A little of everything, then, but maybe nothing in enough depth? I didn’t dislike the book, glad I finished it, but I won’t pick it up again. Will try more of Forster’s work though!