Friday, March 11, 2016

Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray

I started reading this book two years ago, and just finally slogged through to the end. Not that it's not funny and interesting and filled with decent characters, but OH MY GOD it's long and SO MANY CHAPTERS are about the social seasons in London a century ago that I kept putting it down, and only sheer force of will got me through to the end. Becky Sharp is an awesome character, (an 8 on the Scarlett O'Hara scale of Bitchery) and I very much sympathized with her and was glad she never got pious and reformed. Emmy was horrifically weepy, but I liked how the narrator mocked her for it all the way through the book, and good for William for storming out on her in the end. Anyway, I get it, but I wish there was a shorter version with only the chapters where things actually happen.

Grade: C

originally posted 2007

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