Baldwin's prose is undeniably beautiful, but I had a hard time getting into this, largely because I had a hard time connecting with the central character. Add to that, that there have been many other versions of this story told and it just kind of left me with a meh kind of feeling. While I sympathized with David's struggle to come to terms with his own sexuality and his complete inability to not harm everyone he cared about in doing so, I think I struggled to cozy up to a guy that what spending his mid to late 20s galavanting around Europe and breaking hearts.