Currently reading
A London Family, 1870-1900: A Trilogy
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
All the Names
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Down the Garden Path
Virtue Betray'd, Or, Anna Bullen
Year of Wonders
Swallows and Amazons
Illusion in java
A Handful of Dust
I think I had more tolerance in the past for reading books with vile, maddening, shallow characters, because I did not enjoy this book at all. Waugh wrote satire all right, but even in satire, I want to understand the characters and their motivations. Here, I found most of the action inexplicable and irritating. And the part about the boy went way too far for me. It all left a bad taste in my mouth.
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