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I guess you're in good company since the article also has: > I must admit that at the time I was not overly impressed by The Turn of the Screw. So you may want to try others. I read his The American a few years ago, and liked it overall, despite also feeling that it was sort of predictable and not all that interesting. That said, I'm pretty confident it would have been much more remarkable at the time, but in part because of the influence of James' writing we have grown up with what he was doing developed over another century or so. And even then, The American definitely held some insights for me.