Post by violet on Aug 20, 2007 15:12:45 GMT 10
Has anyone read this? I confess I haven't, but dd is supposed to be reading it for year 12. The small section I read reminded me how much I dislike those Victorian era books that focus on the minute details of human interaction - where a look or a nod is perceived as something momentous, and every phrase is turned over and over to dissect its inner meaning. I find it unspeakably boring.
I read Patrick White's Voss a couple of years ago, mainly because I felt that it was a book I should read. I found the lead character to be plain old dull witted - I know times were very different then, but they had so many rules, both written and unwritten, that they seemed afraid to actually do anything in an appropriate manner in case it "looked" untoward. It did not take much in the way of original thought to push progress forward in those days, it just took someone with a bit of common sense, imho.
In my final year of high school, we studied The Go Between, by L.P. Hartley. It was another book I found annoying.
There are books set in Victorian/Edwardian times that I've enjoyed, but not those three.
I read Patrick White's Voss a couple of years ago, mainly because I felt that it was a book I should read. I found the lead character to be plain old dull witted - I know times were very different then, but they had so many rules, both written and unwritten, that they seemed afraid to actually do anything in an appropriate manner in case it "looked" untoward. It did not take much in the way of original thought to push progress forward in those days, it just took someone with a bit of common sense, imho.
In my final year of high school, we studied The Go Between, by L.P. Hartley. It was another book I found annoying.
There are books set in Victorian/Edwardian times that I've enjoyed, but not those three.
