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Kerri posted a review at .
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I could not get into this book and stopped trying after 100 pages or so. It's not very often I give up on a book. But I won't rate it since I didn't finish it.
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Paul posted a review at .
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Witty, observant, everything you'd expect.
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Kristin posted a review at .
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Perhaps my favorite book ever.
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Excellent.
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This is one of the most moving, most beautifully crafted and most saddening of novels that I have read. An era which cannot be imagined in modern experience, an era where Nanny Hawkins and Wilcox are just there, never called upon to comment upon or to criticise the behaviour of the Flyte family, where Bridey, Sebastian, Julia and Cordelia fly into the pages and into the story, sometimes gliding across the surface and sometimes crashing in flaming catastrophe, beauty and disgrace. A world where correct upper-middle-class Edwardian mores collide with an aristocratic interpretation of Catholic ethics, where English reserve shatters and is then recreated whole and impervious. A world which changes as Hooper commands men who do not respect him, and Sebastian shuns all earthly responsibility for a household that adores him. From the moment that Charles Ryder reaches C Company Lines outside Glasgow in a state of apathy to the moment when he enters the Officers' Mess Ante-Room in the grounds of Brideshead Castle unusaully happy, a collage of existence is arranged to leave the reader feeling both in despair and uplifted by the redemption of passion and of love. Mottram and his friends provide comedy, their conversations reading as a fast passed farce, a pastiche of political life in the immediate pre-war years. Anthony Blanche is the figure of fun, the outcast who tries to fit in but only by his outrageous behaviour is he accepted. And Lunt, the underused character and Ryder's scout, explains why it is not acceptable for an ordinary student to vomit on the floor of his room, but why it is more than acceptable for the second son of the Marquis of Marchmain to lean through a stranger's window and copiously unload the contents of his stomach from without. I will read this again. And still I will ponder why a book filled with so much joy and love can leave one so near to tears at the end.
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Kristin posted a review at .
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I love this book. Pure escapism for me. I want to drink port with Sebastian in the Painted Parlor. Shall we get drunk every night? Yes, I think we must.
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A reader posted a review at .
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One of my favourite novels - one I reread at least every couple of years. Its like a rich desert...you feel slightly guilty wallowing in such decadence, and its not something you'd do every day, but when you do give yourself permission, you enjoy it immensely and remember it for a long time. Waugh's writing is gorgeous throughout and the overall tone is elegiac without being maudlin. The movement back and forth in time is masterful, gradually deepening relationships and revealing more. One of the most unusual aspects is the treatment of Catholicism- Waugh takes the mystery of faith very seriously as a motivating force for his characters, and his view is clear-eyed without being cynical.
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Lisa posted a review at .
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I absolutely agree with Katie. I miss Charles, Julia and awesome Brideshead incredibly, and I only finished it this afternoon. Beautifully written, expertly drawing you into their world, the Marchmains and Charles Ryder enthrall. Up there with the greatest books I've ever read. Highly recommend.
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