“So far, I'm only a couple of chapters in and already obsessed with the interesting and sometimes soap opera-esque lives of the Forsyte family. I can easily predict that this book, as well as the next two that follow in the Forsyte Chronicles will become some of my favorite books from that period of time!”
“I am reading this book for the second time. It is one of the most well written books I have ever read. This is volume 1 of 3 volumes. I recently purchased volumes 2 and 3. They are timeless books that I will want to keep in my library. It is nothing like modern literature, yet a great book - a classic.”
“apparently (this info stolen straight from my new edition of the silver spoon) virginia woolf called john galsworthy a stuffed shirt. i've no clue why. because the forsyte saga (as far as i've got into it: book five is my current read) has nothing stuffed shirty about it. it's a series that doesn't flag, for one thing. and the observations it makes about the society it's set in, the people it chooses to represent that society, are quite quite brilliant. the style's a little old fashioned, but it's always fun to see old-fashioned laguage used with such cutting edge precision. read it! read it!”
