Saturday, May 21, 2016

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh

It's a good book. I'm not sure I really understood it though. I was kind of looking at it on a surface level and then when I talked it over with others, they referenced things which I hadn't seen the importance of. Maybe I read it too quickly, I plan on reading it again at some point.

What I liked best about it was the realism. The characters made sense to me, they acted and reacted with reasonable irrationality. On the surface it's easily seen as a tragedy, but on a deeper level the characters had almost universal happy endings.

So, um, good stuff, but I think I need to read it again. Well written, some very quotable passages, some humor. Good stuff.

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