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marauded

Books 2010

Jan 14, 2010 14:38

Like the film list, a book list! Same old story - I want to read more this year, but I reckon I've gotten off to a good start!
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Last updated Friday, December 31st, 2010

TITLE
DATE FINISHED
RATING

001.
A Handful of Dust - Evelyn Waugh
January 1
4/5

002.
In The Forest - Edna ( Read more... )

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Comments 10

dothestrand January 14 2010, 16:33:51 UTC

Just out of interest, what didn't you like about A Handful of Dust? I know 3.5 isn't a bad rating, but I would have given it 4.5 (or maybe even a 5), so I'm just curious.

marauded January 14 2010, 18:52:10 UTC

no it was a tough call, i was a little unfair with the mark. i'm going to change it to a 4... i don't know, i found the ending really disheartening. As for Brenda, couldn't stand her, I know it was a satire, but i really really craved her getting her comeuppance! i was caught between a 3.5 and 4, i just have to think on it more. i threw this list together in a rush.

ohmagpie January 16 2010, 20:07:25 UTC

vile bodies is one of my favourites, i've read alot of waugh's work, i love his books. have you read brideshead revisited?

marauded February 10 2010, 23:33:42 UTC

I think I'll read Scoop for my next Waugh. Brideshead is one of my favourites, the prose is astounding.

ohmagpie February 10 2010, 23:57:26 UTC

brideshead is my favourite book and the series is one of the best things to ever come into my life, alot of icon love for you right now.
scoop was okay but i thought it was kind of lacking.

marauded February 12 2010, 19:17:23 UTC

ditto on the icon love.

yes, i'm so thrilled that i've come by way, i love inter-war lit or settings!

oh really? i was contemplating buying it yesterday so i will get it from the library instead!

greynotreal February 10 2010, 23:12:03 UTC

I read A Handful of Dust last year and absolutely loved it. I adore Evelyn Waugh's books but I haven't read Vile Bodies. Putting it on "to read"-list!

(Btw found your journal via WIWT2) (Adding you to keep track of your books, I love these things!)

marauded February 10 2010, 23:33:00 UTC

I'll gladly add someone who has Ms. Lumley as her icon!

I liked both of them equally to be fair, but Brideshead is always my favourite!

greynotreal February 11 2010, 19:28:14 UTC

:> Ty!

Brideshead is beautiful! I need to re-read it. I read it right after seeing the tv-series and I think that I therefore didn't get the full book experience of it, in a way.

marauded February 12 2010, 19:15:38 UTC

yes, i saw the series first actually, some passages in the book really take my breath away, for example -

"-- 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 straining through and beyond the other, snatching a glimpse now and then of the shadow which turns the corner always a pace or two ahead of us."