A Room with a View and Howard's End changed my life as a reader. I remember they were the first "classics" I found on my own without any prodding from minds more seasoned. I felt decadent reading them and I realized what a stir Mr. Forster must have caused when these books full of strong, sensual, sexual, earthy women were first published. Here were heroines I could love and relate to. Maurice doesn't have the same power for me, for obvious reasons, but I understand why this book, too, made deep ripples in the English way of life. Forster did his part to rage against the rigid morals of his time which paved the way for less rigidity in our own. Plus, he's just fun to read. ( )