Brilliantly and chillingly cold. Clever the way the naive and saintly Tony is seamlessly recast as the villain of the piece - not just by Brenda, but by most of their friends too. Reading Dickens in the jungle for eternity: heaven or hell?
Waugh once again turns his piercing eye toward high society...and once again creates a thouroughly unlikeable novel. Every single character is either completely cruel and selfish or an absolute idiot; both types are utterly unrealistically written. After Waugh killed off a small child just to demo...
I think I had more tolerance in the past for reading books with vile, maddening, shallow characters, because I did not enjoy this book at all. Waugh wrote satire all right, but even in satire, I want to understand the characters and their motivations. Here, I found most of the action inexplicable an...
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