Maughm

When I went to law school, my criminal law professor insisted that we write an introduction before the first class. I wrote about how I love books and she suggested that I read Maughm.

It took me a really long time to get around to taking her up on that proposition. It helped that I saw the movie version of The Painted Veil, which is really good. Watch it.

So I read the book.


It's really good and really well written. It's the story of a doctor and his wife who go to a foreign country to help combat some terrible disease (plague, malaria?). She has been having an affair and this is punishment for both of them. They both find love and redemption in the end. The book and movie are equally good, though they have slightly different endings.

So, then I read The Razor's Edge.


Here is a picture of me reading it:


At any rate, I didn't like it. I thought it was incredibly boring. It's the story of a writer who meets various people throughout his life. It's not so much a story of the author as a chronicle of the lives of these "interesting" people. They're not interesting. Really. Now I don't know if I want to read more Maughm or not. I think The Razor's Edge is supposedly his "best" novel.