I still feel that the tone is patchy - there are big chunks that feel Forsterish to me - the first meeting and the dinner conversations, particularly, but there were chunks where I just couldn't write in that tone and had to revert back to my own writing style.
I'm a bit rusty on a lot of his books - Maurice, Room With A View and the short stories are the things I've reread most recently. That said, writing this has put me in the mood for rereading, so I think I'll start with The Longest Journey next week and go from there (what better author to read as my bus rattles down narrow little Surrey lanes?). The only one that I'm not keen on is A Passage to India which always feels too forced and self-conscious to me.
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Date: 2009-01-02 01:26 am (UTC)I'm a bit rusty on a lot of his books - Maurice, Room With A View and the short stories are the things I've reread most recently. That said, writing this has put me in the mood for rereading, so I think I'll start with The Longest Journey next week and go from there (what better author to read as my bus rattles down narrow little Surrey lanes?). The only one that I'm not keen on is A Passage to India which always feels too forced and self-conscious to me.