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...
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janillabean
Apr 5, 2002 2:48 am
I bought a copy of Vanity Fair today, but I haven't started it yet. Has anybody started Vanity Fair? Any initial thoughts/impressions? janilla...
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janillabean
Apr 5, 2002 3:03 am
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...
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catie906
Apr 5, 2002 3:34 pm
I'm about half way through. Vanity Fair is a great book! I'll post more about it later. Dana...
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calledandchoosen
calledandcho...
Apr 6, 2002 3:47 pm
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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ursula_lear
Apr 7, 2002 1:01 am
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kaylene_buteau
Apr 7, 2002 1:47 am
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...
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hecon_99
Apr 7, 2002 3:57 am
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...
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anjabe_sp
Apr 7, 2002 9:40 am
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...
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Marguerite Nesling
mnfife
Apr 7, 2002 10:53 am
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...
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Karen Frakes
toasteroven515
Apr 7, 2002 7:03 pm
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 ...
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anjabe_sp
Apr 7, 2002 7:22 pm
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...
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Grimes, Keith
Keith.Grimes@...
Apr 9, 2002 1:14 am
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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anjabe_sp
Apr 9, 2002 1:06 pm
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...
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anjabe_sp
Apr 9, 2002 1:29 pm
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...
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toasteroven515
Apr 10, 2002 8:17 pm
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...
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sarahblakeney
Apr 11, 2002 10:16 pm
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,...
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toasteroven515
Apr 12, 2002 7:38 pm
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... ...
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hecon_99
Apr 13, 2002 2:15 am
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,...
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catie906
Apr 15, 2002 3:19 am
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...
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anjabe_sp
Apr 15, 2002 7:49 am
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...
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Karen Frakes
toasteroven515
Apr 15, 2002 6:48 pm
Yes, it is picking up for me too. Becky is clawing her way to the top and I am looking forward to see her comeuppance (sp?) Karen ...
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darbylarson
Apr 15, 2002 9:10 pm
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....
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janillabean
Apr 16, 2002 3:11 am
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...
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laudate_me
Apr 16, 2002 3:33 am
I vote for _In Cold Blood_ - Truman Capote...
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pacmsw
Apr 16, 2002 3:56 am
I vote for IN COLD BLOOD... ... of ... Polls ... the ... them ... with...
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Henry McFarland
hecon_99
Apr 16, 2002 12:30 pm
I vote for A Pair of Blue Eyes_ - Thomas Hardy Thanks, Henry ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online...
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Staci Jenkins
ltlweazel
Apr 16, 2002 2:27 pm
My vote goes for In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ... ADVERTISEMENT...
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Jessica K. Bacon
missemilyoph...
Apr 16, 2002 11:38 pm
... Jessie...
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ursula_lear
Apr 17, 2002 12:03 am
In Cold Blood_ - Truman Capote but hardy's a pair of blue eyes get's my second vote urs...
