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marycel 's review for:
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
There’s a pair of evil presences on the estate. We know they’re evil because they don’t wear hats and, in life, they reportedly engaged in consensual sex. The horror!
The whole story doesn’t carry much weight for me, and the writing is gratuitously elaborate. I don’t think there’s a single forthright sentence in the entire book. It’s all, “And then, as if quite surprised in the manner of a kite which has, upon running to the extremest point of its tether, realized anew that it cannot venture beyond, and, being quite beside itself for want of options in the mesmerizing expanse of that blue sky and loth to return to its terrestrial shackles, is nevertheless again slowly wound upon the spool by an unseen hand, the more cruel for its invisibility, I turned around.” I just made that up, but I swear to you that that’s how the entire thing reads. This could have been about 10 pages of actual narrative, but no.
Anyway, I made it through, and now I’m done with it.
The whole story doesn’t carry much weight for me, and the writing is gratuitously elaborate. I don’t think there’s a single forthright sentence in the entire book. It’s all, “And then, as if quite surprised in the manner of a kite which has, upon running to the extremest point of its tether, realized anew that it cannot venture beyond, and, being quite beside itself for want of options in the mesmerizing expanse of that blue sky and loth to return to its terrestrial shackles, is nevertheless again slowly wound upon the spool by an unseen hand, the more cruel for its invisibility, I turned around.” I just made that up, but I swear to you that that’s how the entire thing reads. This could have been about 10 pages of actual narrative, but no.
Anyway, I made it through, and now I’m done with it.