I really enjoyed this book. It was an interesting history of religious faith in an English aristocrat family and how their faith affects all aspects of their life, whether they know it or not. I don't think it is meant to be funny, but it definitely has some comic passages.I love the rich language W...
This is probably Evelyn Waugh’s best-known book, no doubt due to the well-loved 1981 television series starring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews & Diana Quick (which I haven’t seen) and the recent film adaptation starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw & Hayley Atwell (which I did see). However, much of th...
Not quite what I expected. A novel that examines love and sin through the lenses of alcoholism and catholicism (I thought the lenses were homosexuality and incest - I was wrong). Perhaps his writing style wasn't so unique between the wars; my lack of familiarity with that period makes Waugh's writ...
Brideshead Revisited is a retrospective told by Charles Ryder of his intimate relationship with the Catholic aristocratic Marchmain family. Set in England before WWII, the book covers Charles' life from his student days at Oxford University through the middle of the war. Charles is first introduce...
I can see how this would be a five star book for a lot of people, I'm just not one of them. Me and Waugh, we're not on the same wavelength. He was a pessimist who thought human society was basically doomed to artifice and meaninglessness, and I'm . . . not.
I’ve read so many reviews in the last hour or so, I won’t be able to say anything (new). Still, the most unusual idea just stroke me: with a few hundred pages more, this novel could have been the (lighter?) British version of À la recherche du temps perdu and I’m only referring to my reaction to th...
Often, my book club selections require splitting the reading into manageable chunks. This means that it may take me weeks, if not months, to finish our selected book. Part of this is strategic on the part of the book club because we hope to encourage participation in the discussion when each perso...
Brideshead Revisited, well erm, revisited really! This time it's from BBC7:Posted to Brideshead Castle, Captain Ryder recalls his friend Sebastian. Dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's novel
Unfortunately, my first introduction to this story was the most recent major motion picture. Which, after reading the book, I realized was complete crap and I thankfully found a way to block it out while reading.I liked this book, but I'm not sure what it's about. I think it's one of those books tha...
"...perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and this sadness which sometimes falls between us springs from disappointment in our search, each st...
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