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A review by lizawall
Roderick Hudson by Henry James
4.0
the first book that i have read entirely on iphone! i feel like hj feels guilty about a lot of things in this book. he feels guilty about having money and buying things and being a loafer even though he writes so much. he feels guilty and embarrassed about trying to be a romantic Artist because it makes you hurt everyone who loves you and kill yourself. he feels guilty about ladies because probably you should do SOMEthing for them since their lives are terrible and they are not able to make their own choices even when they are smart, but who could even manage to do anything for them without being offensive or failing (or, more likely, being offensive AND failing). he doesn't actually seem to feel guilty about gayness, but maybe a little ambivalent.
(i think this book is fun because he lets a lot slip about what he is up to later, when he keeps a tighter grip on things.)
((also, for anyone else who is a gossip like i am, i had always felt bad for hj about the whole henrik andersen times, but reading this book made me feel like he knew exactly what he was up to. like 20 years later he just bumped into someone with more than a passing resemblance to a character in his novel, so he had to do what he had to do.))
(i think this book is fun because he lets a lot slip about what he is up to later, when he keeps a tighter grip on things.)
((also, for anyone else who is a gossip like i am, i had always felt bad for hj about the whole henrik andersen times, but reading this book made me feel like he knew exactly what he was up to. like 20 years later he just bumped into someone with more than a passing resemblance to a character in his novel, so he had to do what he had to do.))