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ericvormelker 's review for:
A Room with a View
by E.M. Forster
This is probably the second book that I've read written around 1900. But it seems a strange one. There are moments in it where the time it takes place is apparent, but through most of it, it feels like it could be taking place a hundred years earlier. It's old enough that there are occasionally passages that startle me because I don't quite understand what's happening, partly because of the social circumstance, partially because of the different vocabulary and phrasing. All in all, it was enjoyable enough.
Totally unrelated to the book, I experienced the most unique coincidence -- I was reading it on vacation in Florida. I thought it might be amusing to read a book about vacationing while on vacation. And there certainly where passages that were relevant, especially those critiquing travelers. There's one point in the book, while in Italy, that one person mentions a particular villa to the others, saying that Boccaccio was rumored to have written [b:The Decameron|51799|The Decameron|Giovanni Boccaccio|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362720861s/51799.jpg|1320474] there. On our trip, we stopped at the Ringling museum in Sarasota, the art museum. We didn't read all the nice laminated ringed-together notes for all the rooms, but I did read through an early one. Ringling purchased a lot of the door frames and other structures from buildings in Italy. Including that particular villa that the Decameron was supposedly written in. I guess I'll add The Decameron to my list of 'to read' now.
Totally unrelated to the book, I experienced the most unique coincidence -- I was reading it on vacation in Florida. I thought it might be amusing to read a book about vacationing while on vacation. And there certainly where passages that were relevant, especially those critiquing travelers. There's one point in the book, while in Italy, that one person mentions a particular villa to the others, saying that Boccaccio was rumored to have written [b:The Decameron|51799|The Decameron|Giovanni Boccaccio|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362720861s/51799.jpg|1320474] there. On our trip, we stopped at the Ringling museum in Sarasota, the art museum. We didn't read all the nice laminated ringed-together notes for all the rooms, but I did read through an early one. Ringling purchased a lot of the door frames and other structures from buildings in Italy. Including that particular villa that the Decameron was supposedly written in. I guess I'll add The Decameron to my list of 'to read' now.