The Machine Stops
Written by E. M. Forster
Narrated by Jerome Lawsen
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E. M. Forster
E.M. Forster (1879-1970) was an English novelist. Born in London to an Anglo-Irish mother and a Welsh father, Forster moved with his mother to Rooks Nest, a country house in rural Hertfordshire, in 1883, following his father’s death from tuberculosis. He received a sizeable inheritance from his great-aunt, which allowed him to pursue his studies and support himself as a professional writer. Forster attended King’s College, Cambridge, from 1897 to 1901, where he met many of the people who would later make up the legendary Bloomsbury Group of such writers and intellectuals as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and John Maynard Keynes. A gay man, Forster lived with his mother for much of his life in Weybridge, Surrey, where he wrote the novels A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature sixteen times without winning, Forster is now recognized as one of the most important writers of twentieth century English fiction, and is remembered for his unique vision of English life and powerful critique of the inequities of class.
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Readers find this title to be a prescient masterpiece that accurately describes lockdown life. The warning to not worship the manmade and to build wisely is appreciated. Although some find the reading horrid and slow, the overall consensus is that this book is amazing considering when it was written. It explores themes of isolation and broken relationships, making it a worthwhile read.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not entirely sure how this can be reviewed so poorly by previous person. Considering when this was written, it's a masterpiece.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A prescient author is this Forster. Incredibly accurate description of lockdown life in 2020.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The story is fine, but this reading is horrid. Random pauses (like William Shatner) and an overall slow reading make it hard to listen to.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Amazing that this was written so long ago and so much has come true. Let us hear the warning not to worship the manmade and build wisely.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Very boring. Narrator reads so very slowly, even with speed boost. It's a story about isolation and a broken relationship. Nothing interesting happen in the book. Skip it.
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