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1.Howards End (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by: E.M. Forster, David Lodge April 27, 2000
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Really enjoyed this, got caught up in Forster's world of the Schlegel sisters. At times it is a very sad book, there seems to be a lot of compromising and misunderstandings, but the Schlegel sisters are marvellous. Margaret is a thoroughly modern lady, if sometimes lacking the passion of her sister. Through an escapade with an umbrella, they meet Mr. Bast, a young man trying to "better himself" (through literature and art). They decide to try and help this man, though the end results aren't what they expected. There is also the parallel entanglement with the Wilcox family, Helen has the briefest of engagements with the younger son, and again neither sister could have predicted the outcome.

2.A Room with a View (Penguin Classics) by: E.M. Forster, Malcolm Bradbury August 31, 2006
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This charming little novel which has recently celebrated its centennary can be easily put down as a period piece. E M Forster foresaw it already in his note which he added to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first edition. Yet a prospective reader would be most wrong to do so. There is a lesson here which still needs to be learned by many. The title gives away some of the content - the main heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, needs to get away from the stuffy atmosphere of late Victorian England in which she was brought up - the symbol of which is for EMF the room. Her escape takes place in stages - the first of them is her trip to Italy where she finds landscapes and people most different from those she was accustomed to. It is also there that she meets the man she ... Read More:

3.Kim (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Rudyard Kipling July 26, 2007
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This book describes life down the Grand Trunk Road and beyond perfectly. It is a wonderful story set during the peak of the Raj. Masterfully written by someone who loved the soil of India. The story is sublime, the characters masterful and it all takes place with the background of the Indian plains and mountains: the greatest show on earth.

4.To the Lighthouse (Wordsworth Classics) by: Virginia Woolf February 07, 1994
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'One sees a fin passing far out. What image can I reach to convey what I mean? Really there is none, I think.' Woolf writing in her diary of 1925 reveals her life long concern with the problematic representation of experience. Her sense of reality's ineffability haunted all her major novels and in To the Lighthouse perhaps her art found its greatest expression. The novel begins with a promise, a promise made by a mother to her small child that he can go and visit the lighthouse near where the large family holiday each year. It ends with the Lighthouse being reached finally years later after the mother's death. The process that takes us from a casual promise to its manifestation is for me one of the most magical journeys in literature. I'll be braver ... Read More:

5.Heart of Darkness (Penguin Classics) by: Joseph Conrad August 02, 2007
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I find it absolutely unbelievable that anyone could regard this novel as "dull"! And if novels shouldn't be depressing... well, don't bother with the rest of the Western canon. Maybe you need to try a little harder with the source novel than you do with the Hollywood film. (Consider this: if it's such an average read, why was Francic C. so inspired by it in the first place?)

6.A Passage To India [1984] starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness directed by: David Lean March 31, 2003
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I heard quite a bit about the book, so started reading it. Never really got into it so decided to rent the film out (as you do)...although i have to say, i really was disappointed. I thought the story was mediocre, the start and middle was quite good, it was like a big build up to something. Something like an unexpected twist; although i waited and waited..then it was over. I was left thinking, is that it??

7.Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics) by: E M Forster May 31, 2007
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This is a glorious book that is wonderful to read off the page. The prose is concise, inventive, magical, knowing, sly and pulsing. The first three pages are probably the most brilliant introduction to a novel I have ever read, wherein the entire plot, structure and character are delivered without a single false note. The story contrasts a middle class English family in early 20th Century London with the norms and values of a contemporary Italian village. It has a soap opera plot of births, marriages and deaths soldered to an upstairs downstairs English hierarchy trailing Commedia dell'Arte. The writing is citrus sweet and to imagine a 26 year old Forster producing this is simply to fall in love with him. I see that that there are snipers and carpers who have (technically proper) ... Read More:

8.The Rainbow (Wordsworth Classics) by: D.H. Lawrence May 01, 1995
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More passionate that Women in Love, much deeper than Lady Chatterley, I think this is Lawrence's most successful novel. While ostensibly chronicling the moves from an agricultural to industrialised society, he plumbs the emotional depths of his characters. Frequently viewed as old-fashioned, Lawrence captures all the quivering, trembling, tentative life inside his characters and somehow paints it on the page. I first read this when I was seventeen just before going to university to read English and it left me blown away. I've since avaoided re-reading in case I'm disappointed, but have finally succumbed - and no, I'm not! Not a tube read as you need to concentrate and allow yourself to be sucked into its emotional depths but it's well worth it. ps. What a very odd cover Penguin have chosen for the re-release?

9.Midnight's Children (Vintage Classics) by: Salman Rushdie May 01, 2008
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The language is as multi-layered and detailed as a Klimt, the imagery, rich and dense as Christmas cake - there's no doubt Midnight's Children is a unique and remarkable book, but I found, at it's core, it was too coldly detached. I never truly connected to Saleem or any of the characters, or the epic, grasshopper story. I was always slightly outside his world, looking in through closed blinds. Some books - the books that live on in my mind long after - are the ones that embrace you, wrap you in a warm, soft blanket of themselves and draw you in completely and, awed though I was by the literary achievement (and it is an incredible tour de force, almost certainly deserving the over-used `genius' tag) I could never count it amongst my favourites. It isa fantastical, magical, delight of a book. I did like it very ... Read More:

10.Heart of Darkness by: Joseph Conrad January 25, 2007
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I first read this a couple of years ago as part of an English Lit course, in which we studied in depth the language used. The first thing to bear in mind is that this book is a product of its time. Of course there's inherent racism (Conrad's dehumanising presentation of the Africans as 'black shadows') but despite this, Heart of Darkness was an absolutely groundbreaking piece of colonial literature. As to the style, which people have claimed is dry and unreadable (sorry that Conrad didn't have the courtesy to divide the novella into easy bitesize chapters!) it IS dense. But the language is so rich - pick out any one paragraph and you could talk about the literary techniques and the beautiful language used for hours! The novella focuses on Marlow's journey as he approaches the 'heart of darkness' and eventually ... Read More:

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