I am disappointed to say that this book isn’t for me. I can see why it’s a classic and why some people would regard it as one of the Great Works but story-wise and character-wise, it ain’t for me. I have to at least like a character to enjoy a book but neither sisters truly appeal to me. I can un...
Howards End by E.M. Forster is a novel of ideas. It entertains the notion that there might be a connection between social classes and that all of them might be able to live together, even if not equally. It shows us the relationship between three different families in turn-of-the-century London: the...
Well I can't offer a review better than this one by Zelda, which slam dunks anyone who questions the continued relevance of this book, even 100 years later. Since that review already gave every reason for reading the book, I'll concentrate on how it affected me.I was the most moved when Helen said:I...
I had an eerie feeling that I'd read this book before. Maybe not this book exactly, but similar situations? Close but not exact? It wasn't the turns of phrase, which are often what will tip me off if I've read a book a long time ago and forgotten it. But there was a sense of deja vu running through ...
encounter #3 spring 2011:--------Encounter #2 Autumn 2009: read by John Franklin-Robbins, to which I make teisen lap(alternatively called Welsh Cakes orBakestones).Teisen lap means plate cake and they are traditionally cooked on a maern (pronounced marn) which is a piece of cast iron placed on fire ...
Over all very nice, if you can imagine a mixture between Jane Austen and Kazuo Ishiguro. At least, that's what it reminded me of (in a good way). Very British, very humanist, and kind of pre-feminist (in that written by a closeted homosexual kind of way).
Loved the book, loved the movie. There's a little romance but it's mostly after choices people make. I'm sure this was considered very risque at the time it was written.
Possibly Forster's most brilliant exploration of class divisions in Edwardian England.This passage -- representing the theme at least of Margaret Schlegle if not the book itself -- defined me around the age of 20:Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion ...
Just re-read this and now am reading Zadie Smith's On Beauty. I was obsessed with Forster in high school (Maurice, etc) and am happy to know that Howards End not only holds up but in fact is improved by time. I found myself thinking of Mrs. Dalloway quite a bit. Also, I enjoyed the depiction of the ...
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