by Evelyn Waugh
It is easy to romanticise the past. Especially so when the time period in question has littered popular culture since with as many cliches as the 1920s - think jazz, flappers, liberalism, emancipation, and then throw in the images of parties, cocktails, and the pursuits of the well-to-do, which inev...
Interesting, zany, and bizarre novel. The rapidly changing scenes and swift pace make me question whether Waugh was an author with ADD. Altogether, quite a fun read :)
4.5*
This book really snuck up on me. For the first 100 pages I kept thinking it was a cute little book but only worth 3*. The more I read though the more I enjoyed it and appreciated its wit and charm. Still it was only a 3.5* read. I finished and thought about it for awhile when like a thunderbolt the ...
Updated thoughts can be found here - http://youtu.be/msKfCg6fUzoI just finished reading the gorgeous 1930 novel, Vile Bodies by the old genius of a boy, Evelyn Waugh.I feel it's not too soon to admit to this already being one of my favorite books of all time. Just lovely in every way.I'd already see...
"Our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the saviour...Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself."Philipians 3:17-21This book snuck up on me. It's really...
Evelyn Waugh's second novel Vile Bodies is on the one hand a type of romantic comedy, following the attempts of Adam Fenwick-Symes, an out of fortune writer, and Nina Blount, the daughter of an eccentric Colonel to get married. On the other hand, however, it's a funny yet bitting satire on the 'Youn...
Took me way too long to get into it (about 70 pages) -- Waugh's kind of satire just goes right over my head -- but once I got the tone of the thing, I enjoyed myself. I think. Anyway, it was pretty funny. And then it was horribly depressing. Man, he was bitter.
Stephen Fry filmed it under the title Bright Young Things. Implausible aristos and hangers on, and often written in brief banal sentences that are more reminiscent of Janet and John reading primers than good literature and perhaps shows how shallow and ephemeral these people were. Nevertheless, very...
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