It was work to get through this novel and I tend to agree with a lot of other reviewers that you get the sense that James was so focused on being clever with his language, and making things decidedly ambiguous, that he loses a bit of the ability to drive the story forward. There's a slow build that ...
This was not an easy read for me. I had to reread some sections before being able to move on. The story starts well enough. A man spending the holidays with a group of friends decides to share a ghost story someone once told him. He has to send away to London for a written copy of the tale. This pr...
http://t.co/Py3Bjk2Disappointing, after having been built up for so long. I wanted something more out of this story - something that was never forthcoming. I see why it is so revered, but it would perhaps be better in the telling than in the reading.
Thomas Hardy described James' sentences as "infinite." I thought, yeah right! That's good coming from you! Then I started reading what has to be one of the most famous ghost stories in the English language and found that if anything, Hardy was understating matters...Having once got from the framing ...
HJ is either hit or miss with me. This book in particular really bored me compared to the movie. The movie really scared me yet the book to me really wasn't creepy at all.
Reading this story was a lot like standing in line opening weekend for a blockbuster you waited a year to see, and being underwhelmed. I was disappointed. I've heard about this story as being one of the best ghost stories ever written. I was so excited to read it. So excited was I, I had to downlo...
Listened to Libravox audio edition.The main complaint on this Henry James' classic ghost story is that it is wordy. Yes it is but it is the find of verbosity that passes as poetry. I really enjoyed it even though I already knew the outcome. I would take one Turn of The screw for ten of The Little St...
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