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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-03 04:38:50.
(Language: English)
  
This book is one of the more boring books I have ever read. Provincial priests jockeying for power and wives simply does not interest me, despite the author's championing of a human approach to religion. A chore to read, to say the least.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-04 05:30:53.
(Language: English)
I love, love, love this book. I had no idea it would be so funny and so strikingly modern-Trollope talks to the reader as the author in the narrative several times. Great read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-04-28 11:17:45.
(Language: English)
Gotta love the Warden and he never changed. Can't wait to finish the Barchester Chronicles.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-04-23 05:45:47.
(Language: English)
This is #2 in the series & it was heavenly! Simon Vance was a wonderful reader. I cried when this ended, just because I wanted more. Anthony Trollope is a must-read if you love Charles Dickens & Jane Austen.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-22 11:48:23.
(Language: English)
This book is delightfully witty and a wonderful read.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-10-23 05:39:45.
(Language: English)
One of the funniest of Victorian novels -- social climbing, snobs, high-church and low-church all thrown together.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-26 05:55:24.
(Language: English)
Mycket bättre än så här blir inte en roman. Enormt rolig, förmodligen Trollopes mest underhållende bok. Blir ännu bättre om man börjar med The Warden.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-13 09:49:01.
(Language: English)
I have an unnatural love for Victorian novels, mostly for their heavily nuanced characterization. The stories are rarely that exciting, but the human interaction is, when done well, so rich and gripping that it overcomes the fact that nothing really happens in the book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-24 12:05:26.
(Language: English)
Harder to understand than the dialogue in Passion of the Christ, this book just bores you to death. Unless, of course, you find 19th century English Restoration literature to be an amusing folly-laden merry-go-round. Barchester Towers is SUPPOSED to parody the role that religion plays in the everyday lives of the English aristocracy... in a sense. Instead, it's a long-winded, tiresome, and boring exposition on why one should never read English literature from the 19th century.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-26 04:27:46.
(Language: English)
The second and probably the most popular of the Barchester Chronicles centres around the appointment of a new bishop and all the intrigues around that. It continues the story of the warden and his daughters and introduces new characters that will become more important as the story progresses.You can read this novel on its own but it is so much more fulfilling if you read “The Warden” first. As I said in my description of the first one, I really love these novels, they are so diverse.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-19 07:05:43.
(Language: English)
I am reading this for my 19th century lit class and I think this one might be the death of me. Someone send me the coles notes before I slip into a coma. Make it stop.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-11-23 10:31:45.
(Language: English)
Very much of its time and place... which means if you are up on 19th century British pop culture references, and know your Anglican trivia, you'll feel right at home. Otherwise, there might be some stretches that are a bit, oh, opaque. All that said, there're a heck of a lot of great comedic scenes and really sharp lines.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-02-22 08:19:32.
(Language: English)
Fantastic characters. Very realistic, well formed flawed characters unlike Dickens who has many one sided characters, either really good or really evil
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-10-24 03:38:02.
(Language: English)
Story of an insignificant parson in rural England. Gray, like the sky - neither triumph nor tragedy. Perfectly evokes the same feeling as Pink Floyd in "Run Rabbit Run."
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-02 02:27:17.
(Language: English)
Lovely book
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-07-08 02:22:16.
(Language: English)
I think Trollope suffers from the condescending label of "light reading." Yes, his novels (especially this one), are enjoyable, wonderful reads with a moving plot line and engaging characters. They are never overtly philosophical or symbolic but are nevertheless unparalleled reflections of the joys and sorrows of everyday life. Anyone who enjoys the works of Jane Austen or Dickens or Henry James will enjoy this one. I would recommend reading his novella, The Warden, first.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-10-23 07:45:40.
(Language: English)
The novel is a roll-on-the-floor-laughing look inside the political wrangling that went on in the 19th century Church of England. The plot pits a conservative archdeacon against a progressive upstart chaplain and an indecisive and henpecked bishop, and throws a host of hysterical do-nothing clergy into the mix as well. The plot is winding and twisting, and all the funnier for it. Probably my favorite Victorian novel to date. By the way, this novel is the second in Trollope’s Barchester Series, but it does stand as a coherent story by itself. But if you want the background of the story, read the first novel in the series, The Warden (which is almost as funny but much shorter—in fact one of the shortest Victorian novels I’ve every seen).
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-05-07 01:18:48.
(Language: English)
Not bad.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-19 03:36:18.
(Language: English)
Tried to read this at college but couldn't get into it - I re-read it recently and loved it. The female characters are so well drawn and the story is told in a subtle palette of greys - not black and white like many of the writers of the day.
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