The Golden Bowl (Dramatized) (Abridged) Audiobook

" One would have to have the lifestyle of one of the characters, i.e. independently wealthy or royalty married for money, in order to have time to read a book like this. It is full of self-indulgently long, superfluous passive sentences. If you can sift through the chaff, it is an enjoyable story. "

" Henry James and his fascination with Americans abroad has informed my own fiction, so I place The Golden Bowl among his masterpieces including Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady. "

" i don't know what i think of this book. "

" A complex and wordy novel about an affair. The story isn't much, but the detail and the exploration of the characters is well worth the read "

" This is a gorgeous book, and the only one, as I understand it, that James saw fit to give a happy ending. As he said about his thoughtful and moral characters, if people like that don't exist, they should. His prose is as wonderful as his sensibility. "

" Even more subtle than James' other work. Plot consists in around a dozen or so conversations between characters, and the perceptions and changing moods of those characters as they make up their minds on a course of action. "

" Why do I like Henry James? I don't know, I just do. "

" really a loooong read!(haha, that is what I have written down!) "

" Ah, no thanks. And I won't even bother describing other James tried and dropped. This one I was force-marched through for a class. "

" Not a particular James fan but love this one. A tale of 3 Americans aboard (of course) & one Italian Prince. Superb film with Nick Nolte & Uma Thurman! "

" I have listened to the first half of this book 3 times...I feel like I'm in purgatory "

" I read about 100 pages, and didn't find it too interesting so I took it back to the library early. "

" I didn't nod off into my bowl of Golden Crisp cereal even once. Honest Abe and Trustworthy Carl from down the street will vouch for me. (Those are not sarcastic nicknames.) "

" I've read this book 3x, don't know why, but I love it! I have very weird tastes though, trust me! "

" Skip the preface, give yourself time, and James is surprisingly rewarding. "

" I really enjoyed this book, though it is not my favorite Henry James novel. James' characters tend to be effusive in their complimenting of other characters character! If you can let that go, it is a great story. "

" This was my first James and pretty hard for me to get through. I appreciated the plot and liked some of the images created along the way, but it was kind of a slog. "