No bride, no head, but finished Brideshead Revisited (6 total in March) taking ?
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Date: March 19th, 2018 11:09 AM Author: cerebral property turdskin
I know a lot of people who really really love this novel and a lot who don't care for it. Maybe it's because I've read a bunch of other Waugh books already but I'm fairly in the middle on it, though I lean toward the positive side.
As far as the novel itself goes, the biggest issue is that Charles himself (no relation) seems a rather bland, dim fellow so it's not easy to tell why everybody finds him so fascinating. Based on Waugh's own letters (in the back of my edition) it looks like he noticed the same issue. Similarly, the first third of the book is dedicated to Charles and Sebastian's great friendship, but it was actually a little hard to figure out why they were such grand friends. This vagueness, along with other hints, is probably the strongest evidence they were actually gay lovers of some sort.
Many people consider the final, heavily religious scenes to be absurd melodrama or Catholic propaganda but I really didn't mind them at all and they felt plausible to me, and I don't think that's simply because I share the belief system in question.
Lord Brideshead being a bald 38-yo dork virgin who marries a hefty post-menopausal widow because her husband shared his passion for an obscure hobby was a little too real. Barring grave changes that could be me in a decade!
Other than a big collection of Waugh's short works, that completes all the Waugh books I currently own. I do think I'll go whole hog though and order his post-war books as well. But first I'll probably take a brief interlude to read some other stuff, at least until those books actually arrive.
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Date: March 19th, 2018 11:46 AM Author: diverse cocky range
Brideshead is maybe my favorite book. I have read it or audiobooked it probably a dozen times. The 1981 tv series is TCR. The 2008 movie was pure shit.
It is a perfect blend of Waugh comic novels with the more serious novels. Charles himself is not a particularly memorable character but a vessel for transmitting the story of everything that happens around him. The minor bit characters are 180 and what make it memorable.
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