A Passage to India

Rating:
Summary: OU-BOUM
Review: This book threatens meaning badly.

DONT BUY THIS BOOK. NOW !!!

(too bad it isnt possible to give less then one star)

Rating:
Summary: A masterpiece.
Review: This is book is incredible, and one of my personal favorites. Its beauty is too easily overlooked, because it is so elegantly subtle. Every aspect of the storytelling is masterful: the prose is lush and nuanced, and every character is exquisitely drawn. Drawing from the slimmest of plots, Forster weaves what seems to be an isolated incident into a complex tapestry of emotion. The central focus are the characters, who are sharply realistic and utterly, utterly human. Another aspect that I liked very much is that it takes an era, the British Raj in India, which is otherwise interpreted only with the most hotly colored emotions, and presents it with a marked neutrality, presenting it only through the eyes of the characters. A marvelous read.

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.