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The Golden Bowl Complete edition by Henry James Reference eBooks
I question my own tenacity this time: I start a book, I finish it. I like Henry James, sometimes I just love him but not this time. Interesting situation here and admirable characters Maggie and Adam but way too much verbiage, I groaned and groaned at some of these sentences. Talk about work to read a book- mercy but I am glad I 'm finished and I will skip The Ambassadors. in fact. I've read as much Henry James as I will ever read. I'm old, I have too many other good books to experience and I desire to leave him in peace.Product details
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The Golden Bowl Complete edition by Henry James Reference eBooks Reviews
I was exasperated at his arthritic syntax - a sign of age?
While the storyline is intriguing, the reading was more often painful than not, not least because the sentences were too long and the syntax was not correct so many times. It took me months to finish reading the book. Also, I wish the book offered more insight as to the Prince's character and thoughts.
Henry James is the best. He even makes me smile. He makes contemporary literature seem trite and dull. Who can we read after him.
One of James' more turgid works. Seemed like a short story or novella drawn out. Prefer his other works to this.
After reading about Henry James in the Donna Leon series, I keep trying to enjoy him. The Golden Bowl gets good reviews in , but I'm still not convinced. Have to keep trying to enjoy him, I guess.
This is a very slow read and it was far too mannered for my taste. The formatting is decent for a free version, no major errors.
Back in the early 1970s when Masterpiece Theater was new on PBS and unlike anything else on TV at that time, they did a series dramatizing Henry James' "Golden Bowl". It was visually stunning. I was young and newly married at the time and found it mesmerizing. Alistair Cooke introduced it by saying that "nothing happens" but of course everything does. No one says what is on his/her mind - just long silences. Since is so kind as to make these classics free, I have been going through some of James' work and decided to try this one. I was in for something of a surprise as it is very difficult reading. I kept grasping for the dialogue to see if things would move along but it is mostly quiet tension. The plot is actually quite magnificent but it moves at a snail's pace. Nevertheless I could not put it down as I had to find out where it was going (I had completely forgotten what happened in the series 40 years ago). So very little actually happens but it does resolve so read on! I won't give away much of the story except to say that a very wealthy American marries off his adored to daughter to an impoverished Italian prince, but father and daughter remain a very close couple. Into this family unit comes a beautiful young woman, an old friend of the daughter, who eventually marries the father. The drama occurs because this young woman once was a lover of the prince and now the four of them become a close family unit. The tension builds.
After reading the book I wanted to see the old series again and looked it up on Netflix. They had a movie from 2000 that was pretty bad. In order to put some movement into this very quiet story the movie resorted to maudlin flashbacks to history in the prince's family (adultery between a son and his father's wife) but they did keep most of the dialogue. However Netflix also still has the old Masterpiece Theater series and it is just as visually beautiful as it was 40 years ago and it is so much more faithful to Henry James. In order to get some movement it uses a narrator but he fits in perfectly. The only problem is I don't think the Netflix DVD fits in all the episodes and so I reported that to them. But it is still worthwhile after you have read the book.
I believe that this is the more abstruse of James's work but well worth the effort.
I question my own tenacity this time I start a book, I finish it. I like Henry James, sometimes I just love him but not this time. Interesting situation here and admirable characters Maggie and Adam but way too much verbiage, I groaned and groaned at some of these sentences. Talk about work to read a book- mercy but I am glad I 'm finished and I will skip The Ambassadors. in fact. I've read as much Henry James as I will ever read. I'm old, I have too many other good books to experience and I desire to leave him in peace.
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