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3.87 AVERAGE
i liked the first 2/3 of the book. but then they started talking about catholicism and it got really boring. i'm not catholic so maybe if you were catholic you could enjoy the last 40 pages. charles sucks cordelia is the only good person in this book except aloysius but he isn't real. side note no one in england knows how to pronounce names. al-oh-ishus? hello? rip sebastian i guess. king kept it real
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Beautiful prose. Might be especially interesting to Catholics. The kind of book that might be even more enjoyable the second time you read it.
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
anthony blanche best character i wanna be his friend
This book ranks 45 out of 100 of the best books via BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml). It's a coming of age type of book except that the main character is looking back at his youth. When we look back at our younger selves, we see the things we did differently through our older selves. The people he hung out with, the things he did, the love he had for his friends gives you so much to think about.
I read this book with a "Banned" book club group. This story gave us so much to talk about. It took me about halfway through or at least to Part Two of the book to really get into it. There are some subtle pieces of information that if you catch them early on makes the rest of the story, and the ending make more sense.
I read this book with a "Banned" book club group. This story gave us so much to talk about. It took me about halfway through or at least to Part Two of the book to really get into it. There are some subtle pieces of information that if you catch them early on makes the rest of the story, and the ending make more sense.
In an effort to read more of the Great Novels, I bought this a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. And while the prose is elliptical in that way that most older novels are (as much due to changes in the way we communicate as to the glossing-over of more “explicit” themes that had to be rendered implicit at the time) BRIDESHEAD still reads really quickly and if it makes you “work for it” a little more than contemporary novels do, it’s a pleasure doing so. There really isn’t much to say about this that hasn’t been said thousands of times since it’s publication, but it was a true pleasure to read and is so obviously a huge influence on more modern books I’ve read over the years without knowing their debt to Waugh (McEwan’s ATONEMENT springs to mind). Excellent.