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Title: The Moon and Sixpence/Audio Cassettes by W. Somerset Maugham, Robert Hardy ISBN: 0-8161-9806-3 Publisher: G K Hall Audio Books Pub. Date: June, 1985 Format: Textbook Binding List Price(USD): $42.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (51 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Follow your way!
Comment: The main character is Charles Strickland, a successful stockbroker. He gives up everything to follow his own vocation. He's obsessed by the passion to create beauty. Even though you don't know much about his daily life you get involved in the spirit of art and the way artists live and think. The last part of the book when Strickland's life in Thahiti is narrated by people who got in touch with him there. There you learn most about his character and you understand his feelings better.
Somerset Maugham was inspired by the life of Paul Gauguin when he wrote this book. But it's not a boring biography which contains each detail of Paul Gauguin's life, a lot of the events in the book didn't happen in his real life at all. I really enjoyed reading this book and Ican recommend to read it to everyone.
Rating: 4
Summary: surprising and convincing!
Comment: When we decided to read this novel in class, and we were told that it was inspired by the life of Gauguin I was a bit prejudiced against it, because I didn't like most of the pictures that Gaugin had painted. On the other hand I liked Somerset Maugham's style of writing So it was a bit a "to-and-fro" for me at the beginning. The 4 stars I gave the story make clear that Maugham has "won". In fact the story is inspired by Gauguin, there are parallels, but it's not the real story of Gauguin's life anyway Maugham's descriptions are absolutely convincing, and the end of the novel is... just great! I mean, a man who tells the others before what a great time he had at the front then quotes the Bible, which is so conrary to the main message of the book, which is NOT revenge: Do what you are called to do, live your life according to your inner voice, don't care about society and what people might say and think about your work of art whatever that may be. One piece of advice: I recommend to every reader to study the Maugham biography while reading the novel. You will discover a lot of parallels, similarities and projections (e.g. between Maugham and Strickland).
Rating: 5
Summary: life changing
Comment: I've read the reviews of this book and can only say this; You either "get it" or "You don't".
But if you do - the world is a much more vivid, bright, achingly beautiful place... and you can consider yourself blessed.
An utter masterpiece!
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