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Reading Roundup, September 2024
Sep. 27th, 2024 11:13 pmBrideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
I started this three times before it took. No one told me that Brideshead was a frame story! The first chapter, introducing us to a narrator broken down by the second world war and resurfacing long-buried memories upon revisiting Brideshead Manor, is truly very dull. I wanted a story about English social class, not a war story. It isn’t actually a war story, but you must hold out for a little while to get there.
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Decent Fellows - John Heygate
Denis Bailey attends Eton College. He’s about sixteen, short for his age, and just behind his longtime friend in moving through the school—a new term separates them as the friend joins an elite society of senior boys, leaving Denis to find new friends to share tea with. He settles on a motley bunch of slackers, all of whom are united by their families’ wealth and status. Within Eton, the impact of this is limited to what they can bring to tea or how many new suits they have made in a year; during the holidays, Denis finds out just how much their home lives diverge.
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I started this three times before it took. No one told me that Brideshead was a frame story! The first chapter, introducing us to a narrator broken down by the second world war and resurfacing long-buried memories upon revisiting Brideshead Manor, is truly very dull. I wanted a story about English social class, not a war story. It isn’t actually a war story, but you must hold out for a little while to get there.
( Read more... )
Decent Fellows - John Heygate
Denis Bailey attends Eton College. He’s about sixteen, short for his age, and just behind his longtime friend in moving through the school—a new term separates them as the friend joins an elite society of senior boys, leaving Denis to find new friends to share tea with. He settles on a motley bunch of slackers, all of whom are united by their families’ wealth and status. Within Eton, the impact of this is limited to what they can bring to tea or how many new suits they have made in a year; during the holidays, Denis finds out just how much their home lives diverge.
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