I studied A Handful of Dust for my book club. While I recognize its merit as an example of Juvenalian satire, I really didn't enjoy it. I got Waugh's pointed, cynical mockery, but found it dismal and unpleasant. I understand that this is entirely deliberate on the part of the author. However, if ask...
This is such a good book. If you want a really amazing analysis of English upper class, this is the book for you.The ending completely catches you though. Really really odd ending.
This is such a good book. If you want a really amazing analysis of English upper class, this is the book for you.The ending completely catches you though. Really really odd ending.
This is a hilariously funny book for the first 2/3rds or so. But I prefer Huxley's satires of the same era and class if only because Huxley's characters are better: people as opposed to caricatures. Well, also with Huxley it's less obvious it's satire, whereas with Waugh he sort of hits you over t...
Originally posted at Here There Be Books.You may remember my review of another Evelyn Waugh book from last summer's British humor class. Or maybe not, because I can barely remember that post, and I'm the one that wrote it. But basically I hated it, and I hated Evelyn Waugh and I wanted nothing more ...
I wonder if this is the difference between Literature with the big L and the common garden variant of story. It's not the theme but more of how it handles the plot & writing. The big L stories can have a theme that is so common & has been used million times before and still become memorable.Take thi...
Second Read October 2010: Fuck you, Brenda. Go stab yourself in the face. I hate your stupid fucking fictional guts. I hope all your limbs get diseased and fall off. You are the worst. (Liked it better this time.) First Read November 2009: I think it speaks volume for Waugh's subtle word weaving...
- Have got out of dinner 16th. Are you still free?- Delighted. Second thoughts always best. Brenda.This short interchange via telegrams between Mr Beaver and "her ladyship" Brenda Last may be considered the turning point of this novel, written in 1934. While reading this passage, it occurred to me t...
i found this to be much, much better than the two other waugh books i read: vile bodies, and the loved one. i would have liked it immensely had it ended about three quarters in, as stopping there would have satisfied my need for comeuppance for jerks but that comeuppance never came. the last quarter...
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