Hi, I cannot comment on your first question but regarding your second question - I had the same doubts and objections. I have just finsihed Woolf's biography...
Hi Everyone, I was reading some information about William Makespeace Thackeray on the web. I was surprised to find a Thackeray connection to Virginia Woolf...
I haven't posted in several weeks but I just started Vainity Fair. I am up to Chapter VIII and I am really enjoying it! I have never read any of his works...
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I also started this book at the beginning of April. At first I thought it was going to be a struggle to read it, but it turned out better than I expected. I...
I'm also enjoying Vanity Fair a lot, although I am not that far into it. I think it is one of the funniest books that I have read. I think Becky Sharp is a...
I am about half way through the book now. It also reminded me a lot of Bleak House, we have an orphan at the center and two sweethearts connected with her and...
I skirted round Vanity Fair for days. After it received such an
enthusiastic reception here, I've finally picked it up, and wonder now why
it seemed so...
Greetings from Florida. I got sort of bogged down with Vanity Fair (or maybe life was too interesting??) But now it's picking up again. I remember really ...
Oh, I know what you mean about JOs, he is annoying, but people like him exist in real life, too. Amelia has been too sweet and pretty and stupid, I am hoping...
Hello All, I just joined the group a couple weeks back, though not in time for the start of Vanity Fair. Is there a reading schedule that lists what we'll be ...
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I read a few more chapter these last two days and with the end of the war against Napoleon the story seems to hang a bit loose. We follow the main characters...
Vanity Fair, is apparently not influenced by Bleak House, as I thought at first reading, because it was published around the same time as Dickens' work. These...
Anja, I agree that the plot seems to fade around the 1815 battle. I keep expecting the plot to settle on a small amount of characters but Thackeray seems to...
I return to work on Monday after 9 months off sick so I am a bit scared!!! Why I haven't been posting: I've been reading a lot of non-club books - some good,...
I love Thackeray's sense of humor. He seems to be able to insult people so nicely. And the puns with the names are a crack up. Here are some I remember... ...
Sarah, I'm glad you are feeling better. Your comment about Thackery changing his mind about Dobbin is interesting. (I remember wondering if in Bleak House,...
I, too, agree that the plot has gotten a bit slow. I'm a little more than half way through the book, and it's getting hard for me to pick it up. The first...
Oh, the story does pick up again, indeed. There's some interesting things to come. I am not yet finsihed but nearly through. I am just reading the chapters...
Haven't read the choices this month or the last, as I've been trying to make climb up the mountain of books I've carelessly boughten over the last few months....
Hi Classics Reading Group members! It is time to vote for the book for May. As many of you know, one of the advantages about the conversion from clubs to...
I vote for A Pair of Blue Eyes_ - Thomas Hardy Thanks, Henry ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online...
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