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Yes, I have. Anyone for A Handful of Dust? Surely there are some other Waugh fans around, right? ... by Isabel Allende TBR
6. On Beauty by Zadie Smith Reading
7. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh TBR
8. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh TBR
V. Literary Criticism
1. Craft and Character by Morton Dauwen Zabel TBR
2. The Confessions of Charlotte Bronte by Jo ... ... Faulkner - after The Sound and the Fury
Graham Greene - after The Quiet American
Evelyn Waugh - after A Handful of Dust
Iris Murdoch - after A Fairly Honorable Defeat
Muriel Spark - after The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
A.S. Byatt - after Possession
Pat ... ... by Vladimir Nabokov ***½
3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ***
4. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****
5. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ****½
6. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ***
7. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis ***
8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... 60. Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh
A very fast and funny read, similar to his other more screwball comedies like A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies--as opposed to things like Brideshead Revisited, which I found much more serious (though still funny). Though, like his other comedies, ... ... and the Black by Stendhal
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
t3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
t3. A Handful of Dust
Honorable Mention: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Ninety-Three, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Worst of the Month: Diary Diary by Chuck ... ... Jungle by Upton Sinclair ****
2. Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov ***½
3. The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien ****
4. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh ****½
5. The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton ***
6. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis ***
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... Absalom, Absalom! ****
by William Faulkner
03/07/08
A Handful of Dust ****½
by Evelyn Waugh
03/08/08
†The Crying of Lot 49 ***½
by Thomas Pynchon
03/09/08 I am reading A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. The Rings of Saturn, by WG Sebald
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
The Go-Between by LP Hartley
"The Man Who Loved Dickens" was grafted (the graft took very well!) as the finale of the excellent A Handful of Dust in which Waugh holds a mirror up to the decadent upper English classes. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I shall have to look up Waugh's short stories.
Celephicus ... let me say, great topic, Spaceman Spiff.
And remind me not to go to lilithcat's house. It's a dangerous place. :)
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
Dirt: A Novel by Stuart Woods
The Essence of Chaos by Edward Lorenz
A Book that Was Lost by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
An ... ... Raymond Chandler
One of my LA purchases. Enjoyed it.
4. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
I have previously read Handful of Dust and hated it. I had no interest in the upper class and their problems. Then I read Scoop and loved it. And I loved Vile Bodies.
5. Necropolis by ... ...
22. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox For
23. Animal Farm by George Orwell
24. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreisler
25. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
26. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
27. Howard's End by E.M. Forster
28. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
29. The ... Simon - hahahaha! Yes, I hope I had a good time in that former life: I am certainly paying for it! It's a bit like Tony in A handful of dust, doomed to read the complete works of Dickens over and over again for the rest of his life...
Samizdat - thanks. I am blushing.
... newspaper business and war correspondents in general, and certainly one of the 2 or 3 best books EW ever wrote, along with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited. It was also prominent on several 'greatest books of the century' lists too. ... and sentimentality, a look back to the good old days when everyone knew their place. The best novels are those, like A Handful of Dust, which are written with a scathing, sometimes cruel humour.
The real Waugh was closer to the BR than to AHOD, an unpleasant individual who still ...
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