Largely regarded as Waugh's best work, Brideshead Revisited is one book I mostly associate with the tv adaptation rather than the book because it has been so long since I read the book that the tv adaptation, with all its visual charm and great acting, obviously left a more recent impression. Yet, I...
This book has been on my “to read” list for several years. Given I knew only the synopsis on Goodreads, I had my own idea of what the book would be already formulated before I read the first page. I suspected a summer tale, three months of glorious fun for two university pals. This presumption wa...
Some books are so well written, so rich in language and expression, that it makes me wonder if writers today possess the same level of facility. That's one of the thoughts I had as I was reading Brideshead Revisited, a bitter, nostalgic, beautiful novel published by Evelyn Waugh in 1945. This story ...
Well, I’m not quite sure what to say about this book. There were parts of it I adored and parts I couldn’t care less about and wouldn’t have missed if they’d been omitted. But, before I get into that allow me to go back a few decades. I was in my late teens when I saw the television series of Brid...
28/12 - I have heard that an artist is never completely happy with their work - a painter looks at his work and wishes he could go back and change a few irritating brush strokes, a musician hears his music/lyrics and thinks if only I could tweak that weird bit in the middle of the song, and an autho...
I had to take a long, long break from this. Looking at the books I read and finished after starting this book - 18 - is a little startling. Every night I would glance at this book, before I let it be buried anyway, and think. No, not tonight. I blame Sebastian. Him and his bear and his flakiness. My...
Waugh has the unbelievable skill to make you love reading about people, events and ideas that you cannot stick at any price.The language is succulent, brilliant, alive. The people and ideas are in steady decline...I also think that the only people who can find this book an apology for religion are a...
God, these classics can be tedious. Yes the themes are universal - in this case struggles with faith, sexuality. friendship, family ties, etc. But it doesn't make it necessarily all that interesting to read. Truthfully it was decent for about the middle half. I'm not sorry to have spent the time ...
This is a novel which transports; my great regret is that I'm unable to read it the way it ought to be read - calmly, appreciatively, at long stretches. The comparison to The Great Gatsby seems, to me at least, inevitable, and yet this book puts GG to shame. The splendid characterization, and a wide...
I joked to a friend I knew I was back in literary-land again at the reappearance of all the semi-colons. In fact, there doesn't seem much difference in style, and not much in voice, between this 1944 novel by Waugh and Bronte's 1853 novel Villette which I read recently. Both have elegant, rather plu...
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