A Passage to India

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This book never grabbed me the way I had hoped it would. None of the characters is particularly engaging, and indeed some are barely tolerable. This is a 360 page book that reads like a 600 page book. I'm not what you'd call a plot-junky, but this book was just too slow and too boring. There are only three or four memorable scenes in the whole book, and only one of them possesses any dramatic tension. I think Forster set out to make a statement about relations between colonial power and colonized people. Certainly he accomplished that, but then again he could have done it in a page or two. Instead he threw together a mediocre work of literature to demonstrate his point.

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Summary: realistic and intriguing
Review: Beautifully woven and written story about the relationships between a small group of Indians and English and the larger issues preventing durable relationships among them. Offers an realistic and intriguing picture of British colonialism and colonists in India.

Rating:
Summary: disappointing
Review: This story is light, funny and adventurous. Unfortunatly it is written in a very heavy hard-to-read manner. Very uninviting - had to force myself to read it.