Another book I read after seeing the film. And another book that wasn't nearly as good as it's adaptation. My problem with the book was that the "love" story between Kitty and Walter never felt resolved—there was never that moment where they finally seemed to forgive each other like there was in the...
UPDATE: I've just had an email from GR informing me that this review was flagged and deleted. I am sorry to lose the comment thread. However, what was interesting was that GR did read the review as they said that they do regularly check Fiverr for this paid review thing and were even now investigat...
The Painted Veil is a story about love, betrayal, infidelity and realization! Each character portrayed in this book appeared very real as the story was. Walter a silent and shy person, falls head over heels in love with Kitty. Knowing all her bad qualities he still marries her, anticipating that ma...
“How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”With "The Painted Veil" Maugham presents an intricate study of isolation, appreciation, religion and foreign ways. He also creates a tale of the ...
I read this, cover-to-cover, in one sitting and ended the novel perplexed, haunted, and utterly unsatisfied. The Painted Veil has been likened to my ultimate favorite, Gone With the Wind, and I was expecting quite a lot from this slim novel. In some ways, it definitely delivered, if not exceeded my ...
The Painted Veil is a fascinating character study, simply presented and wonderfully concise (at a little over 200 pages). It is the story of pretty, selfish, vacuous Kitty Fane, who marries a man she doesn't love and suffers the consequences.Kitty’s husband is Dr. Walter Fane, a bacteriologist poste...
The Painted Veil is a fascinating character study, simply presented and wonderfully concise (at a little over 200 pages). It is the story of pretty, selfish, vacuous Kitty Fane, who marries a man she doesn't love and suffers the consequences.Kitty’s husband is Dr. Walter Fane, a bacteriologist poste...
I have never read anything by Maugham before, but this book is a great incentive to read more. I found this book difficult to put down. The book is deceptively easy to read, yet so much meaning is packed into each sentence.Kitty is raised to be only a pretty woman, with limited skills. She is not...
Maugham handles language beautifully, telling the nice, compact story of a vacuous socialite who doesn't take life serious enough and finds herself in a very serious situation. His economy of word fails his purpose only once, but it is an important failure and mars The Painted Veil in a way that dim...
I hesitated between three and four stars largely because this book, which is so measured in both pacing and language, felt somewhat rushed in the end, but I have the feeling some of my qualms are of the "need to think more about this" sort. This is my first Maugham, and I don't think my last. I lo...
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