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This book was a little difficult to read because of the old fashioned style, but by the end I was almost talking like they do in the story. Mr. Forster has a real insight into the emotions and hang-ups that people had during the time this story takes place.

You know how Lost in Space would be all campy for a few episodes, with a galactic beauty pageant here, and yet another alien who drives a golf cart there, and everyone edgy that Doctor Smith might accidentally encounter a Y-chromosome at any moment and explode with megaton force? But then, a few times a season, there would be just some super-intense thing, like they were about to literally fly into the sun, and the drama was really jarring?

Howard's End, which is surprisingly not about a guy considering euthanasia, has sort of the same feel for me. Lots of gentle teasing from afar of the silly English upper class, whom we kid because we love, and then BAM!

I promised myself I wouldn't spoiler. I promised myself I wouldn't spoiler. I promised myself I wouldn't spoiler.

Look, it's a good book, with lots of similar looks at Edwardian self-inflicted-drama as Room with a View, or some books by George Eliot have, but be ready for some real intensity, and some real downers, man.