Reviews for William Hazlitt

The average rating for William Hazlitt based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-08-07 00:00:00 Steven Bowerman I received this book for free via Goodreads First Reads. It is a hard book to rate and review. It is a memoir of the author's early life up until an event surrounding his first wife. I found it interesting that for what others have described as a love story, the woman he fell in love with wasn't even mentioned until two thirds of the way through the book. His early life was interesting. He was also lucky with the opportunities he was handed. He provides a snapshot of post WW2 life in many countries and tells his views of them all. It was a pleasure to read for the most part yet never get completely enthralling. It is understandable in hindsight why he glossed over the most important life event in the story but it did leave the ending feeling a little bit rushed. I feel the book has a historical importance but doesn't quite deserve to be called a modern classic. 3 stars. Worth the read.

Review # 2 was written on 2021-01-06 00:00:00 Valerie Livingston This book is highly overrated. It is a simple memoir and not overly groundbreaking or emotive; not a transformative work of literature or a revolution of writing as declared by some of my favourite writers. I bought this assuming it was going to slip into the vacant slot of my trinity of writing- on writing- Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Woolf's Room of One's Own. I feel I commuted act of blasphemy in that assumption. However I did learn one valuable point from it; the correlation between increasing good luck as to how one looks/sounds. The old boys make luck for a white floppy haired male with the right English accent!