tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post2707347734235109950..comments2023-10-08T03:32:33.151-04:00Comments on bookeywookey: Corrupted innocence and a lifetime of longing (Books - The Go-Between by L. P. Hartley)Tedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-43286189506560223872008-07-11T19:18:00.000-04:002008-07-11T19:18:00.000-04:00This is probably one of the best books I've read i...This is probably one of the best books I've read in 2008--and the year's just a little more than halfway over.Katherinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16108897586586146730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-14837591468778588172008-02-23T14:50:00.000-05:002008-02-23T14:50:00.000-05:00I think the film is well worth seeing - seem to re...I think the film is well worth seeing - seem to remember you liked Sunday Bloody Sunday. If so, I'm sure hyou would enjoy The Go Between. Bates' performance is excellent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-81625622868613530922008-02-21T22:07:00.000-05:002008-02-21T22:07:00.000-05:00Matt - This book was a great recommendation - than...Matt - This book was a great recommendation - thanks! I don't really see the novel as about English society, even though class is a part of that. I think class in the novel is more about Leo's experience of "otherness." I couldn't agree more about his sensuousness bumbling in the dark, but he is innocent of the power of his own feelings and the power of the two lovers' feelings as well. I do think that they used him to achieve their own ends, using his feelings to force him to make a choice that had moral consequences he could not understand and, as such, they corrupted him.Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05511240514127283024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-12964767120849113822008-02-21T21:27:00.000-05:002008-02-21T21:27:00.000-05:00The notion of corrupted innocence does play well v...The notion of corrupted innocence does play well very well in this novel, which is one of my beloved reads in 2007. The narrative voice is unique. He's below the society of his host. But written between the lines of the book, one might perceive that it is not really about class or English society, or a lost world mourned by Hartley, instead it’s about the boy’s own sensuous nature going blindly amiss toward some emotional collapse impelled by his intensity of feeling and innocence.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5578764475698868093.post-45234890945436383402008-02-19T10:35:00.000-05:002008-02-19T10:35:00.000-05:00I really want to read this book. And every time I...I really want to read this book. And every time I read someone's review of it, I want to read it more!Daniellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06415242678720695754noreply@blogger.com