Maurice by EM Forster
Oct. 6th, 2010 10:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofglorySo I read Maurice. R's mother lent me a copy after I saw her watching the movie and went "ooh Cambridge shinny!" (I will read/watch pretty much anything with set at Cambridge.)
I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped. It was a lot grimmer then I expected. This may be a failure on my part -- I should have remembered that being gay in 1913 was dangerous. However there was also less Cambridge then I expected.
The whole character who got the flu and then wasn't gay any more? What was up with that? The flu? really?
Also I totally fail to find the two men desert their families, jobs ect to peruse a relationship that is only a few weeks old to be a happy ending.
Also the current book I'd reading (Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley) is frustrating me to no end. I'm 40 pages in an there has yet to be any story just long rambling info dump. Which might be ok, if only the author knew something about taxonomy -- like say what a clade is or how binomials work. (Hint if a bunch of species binomials have the same 1st word in generally means they are closely related) Also knowing a bit about conservation biology would help too. Also there is no lichen on Mars -- not even a little bit. If it doesn't get better soon I shall give up.
I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped. It was a lot grimmer then I expected. This may be a failure on my part -- I should have remembered that being gay in 1913 was dangerous. However there was also less Cambridge then I expected.
The whole character who got the flu and then wasn't gay any more? What was up with that? The flu? really?
Also I totally fail to find the two men desert their families, jobs ect to peruse a relationship that is only a few weeks old to be a happy ending.
Also the current book I'd reading (Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley) is frustrating me to no end. I'm 40 pages in an there has yet to be any story just long rambling info dump. Which might be ok, if only the author knew something about taxonomy -- like say what a clade is or how binomials work. (Hint if a bunch of species binomials have the same 1st word in generally means they are closely related) Also knowing a bit about conservation biology would help too. Also there is no lichen on Mars -- not even a little bit. If it doesn't get better soon I shall give up.
