Youth, love and time on your hands...whatever does one do with it all? What an upper class English lady of the early 20th century does with it is the basis for E.M. Forster's A Room with a View.I expected more of a Death in Venice kind of languishing prose, but instead it felt, for the most part, mo...
This was a very painful read for me, as can be evidenced in my many status updates. I did not enjoy this at all, unless you can count as enjoyment the glee that filled me when I realized I only had 10 pages to go. Slow, dreadful and inactive. Nothing happens in this book. It's just countless descrip...
"Let's go to Italy!" "Yes, let's!" I decided to read this book for the wrong reasons (our upcoming trip to Italy and my incessant need to immerse myself in all things Italian) but by the time I'd finished reading the first page, marveling at the beauty of Forster's writing, I knew I'd fo...
3.5 stars. what a fun read. i really enjoyed this, although the last 15 pages or so were a bit less so than the rest of the book. i know i'm totally sleep deprived, but i don't think that's why i laughed out loud a number of times while reading this (and i rarely do that). an easy, funny story a...
Reading this book as an adult had a much stronger effect on me than as a teenager. I am in awe of how many issues were addressed in this book, albeit subtlely . But remaining a truly funning and enjoyable read. Each page was a treat for mind. A major theme running through "Room with a View" is t...
"A Room with a View" was one of my favourite films as a teenager, as well as most Merchant-Ivory productions. I saw it on TV one night, then caught the next day rerun and watched it a few more times over the years. I obviously fell for Julian Sands at first, but then I came to love most of the the o...
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