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ingerlisa 's review for:
The Razor's Edge
by W. Somerset Maugham
Whilst reading this book did I have a breakdown and cry like a baby. Yes, yes I did.
Never have I read a book at the exact time in my life in which I needed it so very much. The themes are so effortlessly relevant today and the characters are fascinating. The atmosphere is engulfing.
“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the old wives tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read, and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can't come to know by hearsay...”
Wanting and yearning for that thing in your life that is almost seems it was ingrained in you since as long as you can remember can be motivating but it can be crumbling. This book is beautiful and every sentence is like a work of art. It is a book to be savoured and I am sure I will be re-reading and recommending this to anyone who will listen. I wish I could write a review as beautiful as this book but alas I can't so instead I just recommend that you read this gorgeous piece of literature.
“The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.”
“Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.”