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Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Timothy Hallinan - Goodreads

In the Raleigh-Durham airport, with a long flight in front of me, my Kindle went dead. No Proust, in other words. Raleigh-Durham may the only airport on earth with a used bookshop in it, and what a ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Nathan - Goodreads

It's been perhaps fifteen years since I read Maugham's 'Of Human Bondage', and having now finished 'The Razor's Edge', I have a desire to go back and read the other again. My memory of it is not ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Kristin - Goodreads

Writing: 3 Story: 3 Satisfaction: 3 Not an overly remarkable book but not bad. For me, The Razor's Edge is The Great Gatsby meets Eat, Pray, Love. Our narrator is Somerset Maugham himself and tells ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Henry Avila - Goodreads

In 1919,war hero Larry(Laurence) Darrell,returns to his hometown of Chicago.Wounded twice,the aviator, has a deeper injury.A friend saved his life but lost his, over France,dying on the ground ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Jon - Goodreads

This is the first book I've read by this enormously popular writer of the first half of the last century. I'm afraid I was disappointed. The characters seemed two-dimensional, and only the hero seemed ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Ruthiella - Goodreads

I read this book a couple of weeks ago for my book club. I had checked out from one library a really unwieldy omnibus which contains 5 Maugham novels, including The Razor's Edge. I was just going to ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Chris Zhao - Goodreads

Have you ever asked yourself in silence: what is life? What is the meaning of life? What is happiness? We go to school, work, get married, retire, die, what is the meaning of that? Why do we do that ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - ·Karen· - Goodreads

Maugham appears as the narrator in this story of Larry Darrel, a young American who lied about his age to be able to become an airman in the first World War. After a traumatic experience there he no ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Jenn(ifer) - Goodreads

"One of Maugham's three major novels ..." TIME. That's high praise coming from TIME magazine. This MUST be good. I'm sure some of you are familiar with a little American television drama series that ... Read full review

Review: The Razor's Edge

User Review  - Richard - Goodreads

Rating: 4.25* of five The Publisher Says: Intimate acquaintances but less than friends, they meet and part in postwar London and Paris: Elliot, the arch-snob but also the kindest of men; Isabel ... Read full review

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