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08-01-2011, 03:05 AM | #47 |
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08-01-2011, 03:11 AM | #48 | |
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It may be quieter so far because it's a lottery month - no need for so many posts right now, unlike other months with all the different books being nominated and voted on and so on. |
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08-01-2011, 04:52 PM | #49 |
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I too have started A Passage to India - and I'd love to read Black rain, but cannot find it as ebook over here, will have to go for good old paperback!
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08-01-2011, 05:14 PM | #50 |
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I am too taken by The Etruscan at the moment, that I want to finish to morrow. Right after that, I will start A Passage to India.
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08-01-2011, 07:19 PM | #51 |
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Glad to be more than 3/4s through the Rosetta edition (quite a few typos), leaving me enough time to read Slaughter House Five. Reading A Passage to India has made be appreciate more the Notes for The Master and Margarita (finally finished it last week and have started composing what I hoped to be an intelligible post but it's ending up with more questions than comments). Anna Karenina still has the same May bookmark (as WT Sharpe said in that discussion....'sometime around August.')
I've been wondering why Jon so strongly disliked A Passage to India. Like issybird, I also preferred Room with a View, but quite like A Passage to India. d |
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I dislike [iA Passage to India[/i] because I found the characters not worth caring about. Nothing really happened that was interesting. The bit in the cave was silly. It felt like reading a cardboard cutout of a book. Like all the characters were 2 dimensional.
Nothing really happened and no real character growth. It was just stale. It went nowhere fast and stayed there. |
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Could also be because it's summer and vacation time. I've noticed online forum activity tend to slow down during summer.
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08-02-2011, 06:51 PM | #54 |
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I do somewhat agree with you, Jon...I didn't intend my query as a criticism; it was the vehemence of your dislike that made me curious. Reserving further comments for the discussion.
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It just happens that the book is not one that holds up well enough today to be considered a classic. It's not even that well written. |
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08-02-2011, 10:44 PM | #56 |
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I'll be joining in this month, as soon as I finish "Dead of Veridon". Mostly because if Jon hates it, it's probably great...
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08-03-2011, 07:42 AM | #57 | |
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"... Forsters studies and describes some of the fundamental traits of the man of every epoch and every country. It is for this reason that his message keeps being valuable, even for our epoch. It is to be foreseen that it will survive." In fact they keep printing it and people keep reading it. After 80 years and some. And not only in the UK. Jon, if you have to take as a target something, why don't you do it in a little more realistic way? Constructively like? A propos? |
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Some things hold up well over time anbd other things just become dated.A Passage to India is one of those that's become dated. |
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You can like and dislike and write what you want of course, but do aim to somone less off target then Forster, one of the most loved writers of his time. Loved now. D'Amico is a well known and appreciated critic and university professor of English Literature. |
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The other issue is why is it that English teachers love books that will cause students to stop reading? |
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