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75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Whisper1(Linda's) Thread Number Four		130	alcottacre, Today 1:49am
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of March 20, 2010?		73	Citizenjoyce, Yesterday 11:54pm
Folio Society devotees : I just ordered ~ received....		309	haniwitch, Yesterday 8:33pm
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : avatiakh reads towards 75 and beyond in 2010		243	allthesedarnbooks, Yesterday 7:56pm
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : MusicMom41 reads 75 in 2010		282	suslyn, Yesterday 5:48am
Folio Society devotees : Everyman Library		18	JanWillemNoldus, Saturday 3:15pm
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Tash99's 75 books for 2010		95	elliepotten, Saturday 8:35am
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of March 13, 2010?		146	teelgee, Saturday 3:17am
50 Book Challenge : readeron's 2nd Challenge		137	readeron, Friday 9:02pm
1010 Category Challenge : CMBohn's 101010 list		228	sjmccreary, Friday 12:36pm
Audiobooks : celebrities reading books		5	AnneH, Friday 12:04am
1001 Books to read before you die : : Bekka's progress - plus being really opiniated		58	BekkaJo, Thursday 11:55am
1010 Category Challenge : Soffitta1's 1010 challenge		89	soffitta1, Thursday 4:08am
What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		264	justmejo, Wednesday 11:17pm
1010 Category Challenge : nannybebette's 10/10/10		98	rainpebble, Wednesday 3:24pm
Club Read 2010 : wisewoman's 2010 wanderings		112	Porua, Wednesday 12:46pm
1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		127	maryjanemanolos, Tuesday 8:35pm
50 Book Challenge : bluemeanie11's 50 Books in 2010		15	bluemeanie11, Tuesday 8:18pm
100 Books in 2010 Challenge : jfetting's		55	bonniebooks, Monday 9:42pm
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : citizenjoyce 75 in 2010 Challenge		5	drneutron, March 14
1010 Category Challenge : laura_88´s 1010 Challenge		66	laura_88, March 14
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of March 6, 2010?		160	Storeetllr, March 13
Historical Fiction : World War II fiction recommendations		194	Cariola, March 11
Literary Snobs : I Wish I'd Written That...		204	rolandperkins, March 10
Book talk : Books made into movies		112	Sandydog1, March 5
Literary Snobs : Interviews/Features on Writers 2: Now with 30% more quiddity!		137	kswolff, March 5
1010 Category Challenge : atlargeintheworld's 1010 challenge x2		35	atlargeintheworld, March 5
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : PlasmaPetrol's 75 Books in 2010 Thread		9	plasmapetrol, March 3
1010 Category Challenge : What are you reading for the Challenge this month - February 2010 ?		91	luv2read97, March 3
Playing games and solving puzzles : Plot summaries		339	justjim, February 25
Bestsellers over the Years : 1945		16	rocketjk, February 16
50 Book Challenge : tillandsia 2010		6	tillandsia, February 14
1001 Books to read before you die : Soffitta1's 1001 Books- Lifetime of Reading		23	soffitta1, February 10
50 Book Challenge : japaul's 50 book challenge in 2010 as a new mom - am I crazy???		16	japaul22, February 9
1001 Books to read before you die : Favourite Book from the 1001 List that You Read in 2009		40	notmyrealname, February 6
Virago Modern Classics : Our birthdays		304	miss_read, February 6
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond		39	pgrudin, February 1
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : 75 Books in 2010		5	alcottacre, January 31
1010 Category Challenge : Remusly's 101010 List		49	remusly, January 25
1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36		18	arubabookwoman, January 17
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : lmichet so far		31	lmichet, January 17
Audiobooks : actors reading audiobooks		3	wisewoman, January 16
1001 Books to read before you die : Judylou's 1001		42	judylou, January 13
50 Book Challenge : japaul's 50 books for 2009		95	japaul22, January 11
What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 - Your Best Five Reads of Q3 (July -Sept)		80	melissa45, January 11
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : 2009 Reading Oscars		53	EnriqueFreeque, January 10
50 Book Challenge : Willow316's 2009 50 Book Challange		94	Willow316, January 9
Reading Globally : Where in the World Are You Now? December 2009		118	FicusFan, January 9
75 Books Challenge for 2010 : Econ Steve's 75 for 2010		8	sbnicar, January 8
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2009		149	NightMoon, January 8
TBR Challenge : BJ's 2009 attack on Mount TBR		43	billiejean, January 7
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BJ tries to read 75 Books in 2009, Part 2		364	billiejean, January 7
What Are You Reading Now? : Top 10 Favorite Books		50	Storeetllr, January 5
Club Read 2009 : Nickelini's 2009 Reading		222	Nickelini, January 4
Christianity : Reading Challenge~~~ 20 NEW Christian authors in 2010		9	lbradf, January 3
50 Book Challenge : 2009 with ChocolateMuse		244	elliepotten, January 3
Geeks who love the Classics : What classic are you reading now?		243	Porua, January 3
100 Books in 2009 Challenge : Judylou's 100 books in 2009		324	bonniebooks, January 3
50 Book Challenge : whitewavedarling's 2009 challenge....		196	whitewavedarling, January 2
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : jmaloney17's reads in 2009		170	mjk8293, January 1
100 Books in 2009 Challenge : englishrose60's 100+		160	tiffin, January 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : amanda4242's 75 book challenge		108	amanda4242, January 1
Hogwarts Express : It that time again...		14	Ms_Bella, January 1
999 Challenge : atlargeinthewrld's 999 attempt		52	atlargeintheworld, January 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : OldSarge's reading for 2009		91	OldSarge, January 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : bookaholicgirl's 2009 challenge		105	alcottacre, January 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : ProfilerSR's 75 Book Challenge		277	alcottacre, January 1
50 Book Challenge : christiguc's 2009 reading catalog		269	juliette07, December 2009
999 Challenge : bookaholicgirl's 999 challenge		12	bookaholicgirl, December 2009
50 Book Challenge : SusanJ's 50 book challenge for 2009		109	susanj67, December 2009
50 Book Challenge : Wonderlake @ 2009		79	wonderlake, December 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Bekka's 75		49	alcottacre, December 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : Your BEST BOOKS of 2008		175	newlifecoming, December 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : What We Are Reading - Classics		287	alcottacre, December 2009
Audiobooks : What Are You Listening to Now? Part 5		326	ktleyed, December 2009
50 Book Challenge : tash99's 50 book challenge		167	elliepotten, December 2009
999 Challenge : janbrunetti's challenge		31	janbrunetti, December 2009
Book talk : The most beautiful first sentence in literature		88	shellibrary, December 2009
Book talk : Novels about alcoholics... [hic!]		52	Third_cheek, December 2009
999 Challenge : Sarams's challenge		96	cmbohn, December 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of November 21, 2009?		227	Glorybe1, December 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - November 2009		151	cdyankeefan, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : Dave's 1001 List		17	Nickelini, December 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in November 2009?		79	jlelliott, November 2009
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : 10 Famous Titles Least Likely to Stand the Test of Time		104	rolandperkins, November 2009
Alphabet Challenges : laura_88´s ABC		33	laura_88, November 2009
Early Reviewers : Done, Who wants it next? Part two		98	chazzard, November 2009
999 Challenge : What are we reading in November?		18	cmbohn, November 2009
999 Challenge : BJ's 999 Categories and Books		222	billiejean, November 2009
I want to read that! : Jolene's List		39	jolucia_108, November 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 24, 2009?		220	bibleeohfile, November 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 19, 2009?		251	Arten60, November 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, November 2009
List Five Books Parlour Game : Complete Sentences, Please!		106	rolandperkins, November 2009
What Are You Reading Now? : Abandoned Books redux (Life is short. Don't read crap.)		232	sanja, November 2009
Book talk : A Silly Book game - Part 13		300	justjim, November 2009
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in OCTOBER 2009?		85	soffitta1, October 2009
Literary Snobs : What are you reading NOW? October, 2009		139	kswolff, October 2009
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Zoe's Challenge		212	loriephillips, October 2009
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... was it his experiences during the holocaust that made him so? Next up is Noah's Compass. I'm still listening to Brideshead Revisited and am a great deal less enamored than I was with the movie. Turns out that Evelyn Waugh was quite the misogynist. Who knew?

... I am thinking of buying their versions of Collins' Moonstone and The Woman in White. The only one I currently own is Brideshead Revisited. The production quality seems good, though the small size is somewhat detracting.

53. Brideshead Revisted Forgot to put this one down! Enjoyed it, but frustrating finish.

... Club by Don Lattin 12. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 14. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh audio 15. Water for elephnts by Sara Gruen 16. Nubs by Brian Dennis 17. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds ...

... like it when I read it, but it's hard to force myself to get into it because the writing is so choppy. Still listening to Brideshead Revisited, Jeremy Irons is the reader, dreamy voice, but obviously a well loved book because the Cd's are pretty worn.

I really liked Jeremy Irons' narration for Brideshead Revisited, and Anna Massey's Rebecca. I haven't had much exposure to celebrity reads otherwise.

... - F. Scott Fitzgerald 23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 The Chronicles ...

... and Works by Evelyn Waugh This is an interesting journey by the author of many well-known books, including Brideshead Revisited and Decline and Fall. Written in 1927, when he was only 24, this was Waugh's first publication. Blasted for their non-traditional form of art, ...

I finally finished listening to The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte and have started on Brideshead Revisited. For some reason I always thought Brideshead Revisited was Brigadoon, so never wanted to read it, why would you read a musical? Then I read something by a man who said his life ...

... There are some classics I'm adamant about reading this year (The Brothers Karamazov, The Handmaid's Tale, Nausea, Brideshead Revisited, etc.), but, for the most part, I just blow through Barnes & Noble, selecting books at random. :)

... I've counted it right. It includes four books that would be in my all time top ten: The Wasp Factory Cloud Atlas Brideshead Revisited Wuthering Heights

Nearing the end of Brideshead Revisited, enjoying it, but am wondering if it will taper off now. Up next, an Asian read, I feel the need for something different.

Oh - Brideshead Revisited - a favourite book and a memorable TV serial - loved it and the title music was so very apt!!

A Handful of Dust was not nearly as thrilling for me as Vile Bodies or Brideshead Revisited. i love love love Evelyn Waugh's dark humor, but i just didin't feel it in this book. and it didn't have the weight of Brideshead to make up for that lack of humor. of course, there were some funny ...

3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This book is supposedly about the workings of divine Grace and about the superiority of Catholic faith over agnosticism, while another central theme is traditional English nobility and the decline of their age, which is viewed as very sad. If it was ...

7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh It's always a little worrying when reviews on a book cover proclaim it to be "genius" and "finest work", because then I'll feel I must be stupid if I don't like it. Luckily, I liked it quite a bit. I wasn't sure at first, to be honest, but once the part in ...

... marches and maneuvers and gambling and golden sunsets, is about to be completely destroyed. Like another favorite of mine, Brideshead Revisited, it makes me homesick for a place and time I've never been. Five stars. Everyone should read it.

#177 No, I rather like Brideshead. It was Officers and Gentlemen that turned me off. Have we earned a clue yet?

... formulas aren’t. This book failed to grab my attention in the same way that things like Don Quixote and Brideshead Revisited have failed to grab my husband’s attention, in spite of the fact that they are some of my favourite books and that he has really tried to get into ...

... Club by Don Lattin 12. Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder 13. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel 14. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh by the way, thanks for the welcomes

... unlikeable in many ways. I had similar reactions to Scoop and Black Mischief as others here, and I have yet to read Brideshead Revisited. I do think that Waugh is interesting to read in light of other colonial and post-colonial literature. Putting it in the context of Heart of Darkness ...

... Black Mischief, which is also a satire, but of colonial governments. The racial slurs are really startling. I loved Brideshead Revisited, but to me, it is very different from Waugh's war-related books.

... war category Evelyn Waugh was one of those authors that I had somehow considered difficult for some reason. I mean, Brideshead Revisited and all that. But the description of this wicked little story sounded so tempting that I had to give it a try. I will definitely be reading more. Sc ...

... Bodies on their TBR piles - bump it up! It's probably my favourite Evelyn Waugh novel (well, maybe jointly with Brideshead Revisited). Scoop is also extremely funny as is The Loved One... Oh and The Sword of Honour Trilogy too... I do find that reading too many books by him ...

#65 & 67 - thanks. I'm definitely reading more of Evelyn Waugh. Up to now I had only read Brideshead Revisited which I really liked, but these satires of his are hilarious. Scoop and Vile Bodies are now on my wishlist and it looks like I'll have to add Black Mischief too.

Jeremy Irons reading Brideshead Revisited was amazing. Perfect in every way. I haven't seen it, but I understand he played in the older miniseries. Also, Ann Massey did a fantastic job reading Rebecca. She also played in an older production of it, as Mrs. Danvers, I think. Her reading is ...

... by Toni Morrison Annie’s Ghosts by Steve Luxenberg (an ER, non-fiction book) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian D ...

... good so far. Painful and ugly and not at all what I usually read, but there is something compelling about it. It's like Brideshead Revisited if Charles and Julia continued their affair and then broke off bitterly. I think there are going to be some good quotes in this one. "Sometimes I ...

Starred you! I read Brideshead Revisited last year and really enjoyed it. Are you going to post reviews or put them on the work page?

... Murder (Josephine Tey mystery #1) Watkins, Sam R.: Co. Aytch, A Confederate Memoir of the Civil War Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited Weiner, Eric: The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World *Wells, H.G.: The Island of Dr. Moreau *Wells ...

... ere; Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton Neuromancer by William Gibson One flew over the Cuckoo's nest by Ken Kesey Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Veronika Decides to Die - Paulo Coelho Coming up for Air - George Orwell

2009 Wrap-up Top Five Reads of the Year Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Best of the Rest ...

... Kingsolver 6. Looking for Alaska by John Green* 7. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See* 8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh* 9. An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon 10. Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver 11. Paper Towns by John Green ...

... Vegetable, Miracle Looking for Alaska Their Eyes Were Watching God Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Paper Towns Brideshead Revisited Animal Dreams Mudhouse Sabbath Operating Instructions Corelli's Mandolin The Book Thief *all these are listed in chronological ...

... up - it's the holidays) Thanks for writing your (witty) thoughts on the 1001 books you've read. I haven't read Brideshead Revisted but I watched the movie and the BBC mini series and thought both dragged a bit. My older sister told me the book has fantastic prose which is why people ...

... Lispector, The Hour of the Star Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain Philip Roth, American Pastoral Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited winner: The Master and Margarita. Roth v. Bulgakov in both categories, different winners? It's partially a copout because I can't decide, but ...

... it). All in all it could be the best edition available. I guess I just expected something like the sober approach used in Brideshead revisited. IMHO covers are beautiful; but being a bit too decorative, they takes some of the tragedy out of it .. but maybe it's me I'll add some (not that ...

... a few gems amongst them . . A Fine Balance Sputnik Sweetheart The Stone Diaries Beloved How the Dead Live Brideshead Revisited Half of a Yellow Sun In the Forest It was a good readig year for me to wookie!

... a nice blue bag with my membership books .. replacing battered paperbacks :) The right stuff The age of innocence Brideshead revisited Tinker tailor, soldier, spy By the way I just LOVE the slipcase from "The right stuff"': .. silver -grey like a Gemini rocket.. (to infinity ...

My top ten reads of the year * Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh * Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope * Captain Alatriste by Arturo Perez-Reverte * The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson * The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins The Custom of the Co ...

221. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am now watching the ITV production of this work which appears to be very true to the book so far.

I have been in England, Brideshead Revisited Loved it. I am back with Alexander McCall Smith, but not in Botswana, he and I have moved on to Edinburgh, Scotland with The Sunday Philosophy Club,

... ht Collected Stories Franz Kafka Lady Chattarley's Lover D. H. Lawrence read A Room of Ones Own Virginia Woolf Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh read Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck read The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler They Shoot Horses Don't They Horace McCoy The Se ...

... Smith 7) If On A Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino 8) Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi 9) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 10) Paradise Lost by John Milton

#127-130 (12-1-2009) 127) Everything That Rises Must Converge -- Flannery O'Connor 128) Brideshead Revisited -- Evelyn Waugh 129) Death in Venice -- Thomas Mann 130) Howards End -- E. M. Forster It's been a busy autumn, mostly concerned with job hunting, a few ...

... would say it was the other way around: Catholicism is much more basic in Greeneʻs novels than in Waughʻs (except for Brideshead Revisited). This is just a yarn related to your question of Message #2, not an answer to it.

Book #21 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian while they are both studying in Oxford. They become good friends but life separates them. Years later Charles is a famous painter when he meets Julia Sebastians sister and they fell in love. This book just didn't do ...

#32 I loved the one with Gerard Depardieu. Brideshead Revisited read November 26th. Charles Ryder meets Sebastian while they are both studying in Oxford. They become good friends but life separates them. Years later Charles is a famous painter when he meets Julia Sebastians sister and they ...

Still reading Count of Monte Cristo slowly making progress. Also reading Brideshead Revisited and Sivistyksen käsikirja /Bildung.Alles, was man wissen muss by Dietrich Schwanitz for school.

... gerald Songmaster - Orson Scott Card Lunar Park - Bret Easton Ellis The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Atonement - Ian McEwen Napoleon Symphony - Anthony Burgess Cujo - Stephen King The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold Aaaaand my ...

... too. A couple of things that stand out are The power and the glory (Graham Greene's celebrated "whisky priest") and Brideshead revisited (although I don't think anyone would read it just for the description of Sebastian's descent into alcoholism). One I didn't expect to see in the list ...

Mmmm! I'm going to have to add Brideshead Revisited to my Netflix cue.

BJ, have you ever seen any of the miniseries of Brideshead Revisited? I think it was originally for PBS or BBC in the 1980s, and it stars a young Jeremy Irons. My mom LOVES this book (as do I) and now has the miniseries on DVD. It's something like 12 hours long, but I think it's worth it just ...

Well, I haven't started The Count of Monte Cristo yet, but I did read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which has been on my tbr for 20 years. I don't know why I took so long to read it, because it was a good book. One more book to go for 2009. --BJ

I finished the last book in my 1001 Category, Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. This book has been on my tbr for 20 years, so I am really glad that I have read it at last. Now I only have one more book to read from the Book to Screen category, and I have it picked out. I hope to finish it ...

80. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. This book has been on my tbr for about 20 years. I finally decided to read it. At first, I did not feel totally immersed in it, but the more I read, the more I liked it. Parts were humorous, other parts were sad. I can see why it made the 1001 list. ...

I am almost halfway through Brideshead Revisited. Next I plan to read Dances with Wolves. --BJ

I am reading Brideshead Revisited. Also hoping to get to The Count of Monte Cristo and Vanity Fair this year. --BJ

Oh! Oh! Can I also add Brideshead Revisited? A three hundred page love letter to the Catholic church. A boring three hundred page love letter.

just joining this thread. nice to find other audiophiles. :) i'm reading a bunch. i'm halfway through brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh exquisitely narrated by Jeremy Irons. almost halfway through Ross Thomas' Briarpatch. i like Frank Muller's narrations of Thomas' books. he ...

... and special thanks to fredbacon for using the word 'jeremiad.' made me smile. lessee. i'm still moving along with brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh and am so enraptured by the narration that i can't pay attention to much else. Jeremy irons' continues to amaze. he simply woos the ...

... by Sarah Waters Fiction. This was a great book with shades of several other favorite books. (Wuthering Heights; Brideshead Revisited; We Have Always Lived in the Castle) The characters were vivid and displayed the interaction between mental illness and environment very well. Many ...

... Silver on the Tree, the final book in The Dark is Rising Sequence by Susan Cooper. It was another winner. I started Brideshead Revisited for the 1001 category (barely). --BJ

... is the first Christie i've actually been able to stick with for more than half an hour. dunno why. am halfway through brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh narrated brilliantly by Jeremy Irons. every time i listen to a tape or two i get absolutely swathed in melancholy and ...

192. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Ok, so the mother is Catholic a lot and keeps tabs on her kids and won't divorce her husband because she doesn't think it's right. And we're supposed to get like..super villain vibes from this? Like drove-her-poor-son-to-drink vibes? I don't feel sorry ...

The Times Literary Supplement on the real Flyte family re: Brideshead Revisited

I just re-started Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I've tried this one before and it just didn't resonate at the time...but going well this time.

#37 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 336 pages 3 stars "The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, Brides ...

'sleep innocently.' Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh 'if things had gone differently would she have put the book back in the drawer?'

'my friend, he is a volcano of hate.' Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh 'do we have to drive out on winter mornings?

... year by reason of his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds.' Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh 'you're an artist, Ryder, what do you think of it aesthetically?'

... Levithan and Rachel Coen and working my way to A Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse-five, Catch-22, The Great Gatsby, Brideshead Revisted, Rebecca, Victorian Lit., Anne Rice, and some graphic novels. Present (18)-Continuing to read Evelyn Waugh, working on the Russians (The Master ...

... by Ethan Canin -- epic family saga of politics, betrayal and wealth, blending shades of All the King's Men and Brideshead Revisited. Netherland by Joseph O'Neill -- European ex-pat living in NY picks up his post-9/11 life through cricket amid the underclass under the ...

... also a LOT more painful than I thought it would be), but I did manage to complete Everything That Rises Must Converge and Brideshead Revisited this past month. Next target is one I should have finished long ago: Howards End.

Finished Brideshead Revisited One of the best books in the language, even if it is about dithering aristocrats. A kind of "Rules of the Game" set in acerbic Augustan prose. Started reading Battle for the Abyss by Ben Counter. A little different than Waugh.

> 79 Brideshead Revisited is one of my favorite books. For movie, are you referring to the mini-series with Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews? I loved that as well!! Classic! I need to watch it again, it's been years since I've seen it. I hope you enjoy it.

43. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - good, I think. I am interested in seeing the movie to see if my take on the book is the same as the director's.

... and Fall of the Third Reich last night. Started Justice at Nuremberg by Robert E. Conot. Nearly done with Book 1 of Brideshead Revisited by Waugh.

... 551 The Heart of the Matter 552 Cry, the Beloved Country 559 The Plague 562 The Bridge on the Drina 563 Brideshead Revisited on Mount TBR 564 Animal Farm 574 The Little Prince 579 The Outsider 587 For Whom the Bell Tolls 589 The Power and the Glory

... gruesomely promiscuous." -- Legion by Dan Abnett A nice dollop of purple prose. *** Currently reading Brideshead Revisited by Waugh. Seems like every page is chock full of lusciously constructed bon mots. The novel is a worthy culmination of his literary career. As a ...

... was fun. Much better written than The Lost Symbol, then again, I know cats that could out-write Mr. Brown. Started Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, which, as the kids say, "is the shit."

I am currently still reading Brideshead Revisited which has been slow going so far. I am still a bit under the weather and super busy since the kids are now back in school which accounts for some of it. We spent the entire day yesterday at a cross country meet for the oldest and it was a two ...

56. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

Hi Schmerguls: When I said the past is rare in a title, I didn't mean past participles (a titleparallel to Brideshead Revisited) are rare -- only that a main verb in the past is rare. One that I listed B.Wolfe's The Great Prince Died had its title changed, in its second editiion to Tr ...

191: I've read a fair share of reviews for Brideshead, so I'm curious what the actual book is like. Decline and Fall was Waugh's first published novel and it is light and juvenile with some sharp barbs about secularism and modernism. I've also heard some call "Brideshead" schmaltz, at least ...

Love, love, love Brideshead Revisited. It is different from his other more satiric works, but there's still plenty of humor and a really unforgettable set of characters.

Once I'm done with my Warhammer 40K candy, I'm going to hack into Brideshead Revisited by Waugh. See how it stacks up against Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust

I finished Cold Comfort Farm and am currently reading Brideshead Revisited. I enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm but found the language difficult to get through at times. Being set in England and written so long ago, I sometimes have difficulty with references, slang, etc. It was definitely good ...

... few days. While I still feel yucky, I do feel like I could read finally. After I finish that, I am either going to read Brideshead Revisited or The Poisonwood Bible. Brideshead is a library book and Poisonwood is for my RL book club. We aren't meeting until the end of October so I may ...

... 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (currently reading) 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky (could not finish) 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck (own but have not read) 29 Al ...

As to the rarity of the past tense in a title, I don't find it so rare. A famous example: Brideshead Revisited The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder, by Evelyn Waugh (read 18 Mar 1947 - re-read 27 Nov 1982)

... Book 5. Watchmen **1001 Book 6. A Kestrel for a Knave **1001 Book 7. The Midwich Cuckoos **1001 Book 8. Brideshead Revisited **1001 Book 9. The Cave of the Yellow Dog 10. Les Miserables **1001 Book ** 9 1001 Books

... A Memoir by Larry McMurtry 58.*TERRITORY by Emma Bull 59.*A DESERT CALLED PEACE by Tom Kratman 60.*BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh 61.*HONOR OF THE CLAN by John Ringo 62.*NO HOUSE LIMIT by Steve Fisher 63.*EATERS OF THE DEAD by Michael Crichton ...

V W Waugh Evelyn, Brideshead Revisited X Y Z

Finished Jacob's Room and really enjoyed it. Still in the midst of Brideshead Revisited and trying to decide if I want to supplement another 1001 Book in there too...

... Leroux 4. Maurice by E. M. Forster 5. The Catch Trap by Marion Zimmer Bradley COMPLETED 1/21/2010 *** 6. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 7. The City and the Pillar by Gore Vidal 8. The Master: A Novel by Colm Tóibín 9. The King Must Die by Mary Renault 10. The ...

Decided to work on both Brideshead Revisited and Jacob's Room simultaneously. Really thought I'd enjoy Waugh more, and also thought I'd be sick of Woolf by now. Two pleasant surprises!

... Time, and was a little underwhelmed. Thinking about playing a little 1001 AND Early Reviewer catch-up by finally reading Brideshead Revisited!

... by Kazuo Ishiguro read (October 13th -09) 3.Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas read (November 25th -09) 4.Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read (November 26th -09) 5.Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro read (January 11th -10) 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

I'm definitely planning on getting Brideshead Revisited and The Screwtape Letters, and probably The Double Helix from the new prospectus (although that might be optimistic - I can't quite remember when it comes out). Then there are about twenty others that could fill the final slot!

... pile. It's one of those books that's been on my tbr pile for a while but other books keep grabbing my eye. I also loved Brideshead Revisted,

I also loved Brideshead Revisited. The prose is magnificent....and he is very funny.

Brideshead Revisited - what can I say? Just inspiring me to go and read lots more Waugh. I really enjoyed this - I relate far more to Ryder re Catholicism (I'm sure I spelt that wrong) though his final prayer and the attached implications are to me the marring note of the novel.

#21 Brideshead Revisited - love it! Agreeing with Ryder re catholicism though.

#73 Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh. This is not the kind of book I normally enjoy, it is definately slow reading. But slowly I got hooked, and towards the end I couldn't put this books down. Normally I don't like books where someone is unfaithful to their wife or husband, but in this book I ...

I finished Brideshead Revisted which I enjoyed. I will look out for the BBC TV series to compare. Next up is The Beast Within which will be my second Zola.

#83 I read Brideshead Revisited earlier this year and really enjoyed it, and found it a much easier read than I was expecting. Quite a few people on the 75 BC threads have read it recently. Now I've looked up The Beast Within though and it looks good too - haven't tried any Zola yet but ...

I finished The Poisonwood Bible which was very good. Now I'm deciding between The Beast Within or Brideshead Revisited as I fancy a classic now.

... inn Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass Aesop's Fables Anna Karenina Brideshead Revisited Cannery Row A Christmas Carol Cry, the Beloved Country Doctor Zhivago

... 1 Chandler - The Lady in the Lake 1942 Smith - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943 Cary - The Horse's Mouth 1944 Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 1945 White - Stuart Little 1945

... Wright 3 when I walk at lunch, but there's definitely something lost in listening to Blue Balliett's books. I finished Brideshead Revisited yesterday afternoon, and although it took me a while to read, enjoyed it just as much this time as I did before. I have now moved on to Lady Chatterley ...

... still sampling mystery writers and reading their works in order of publication. Also mix in some classics and current lit. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh...the master of wonderful prose 2nd Chance by James Patterson...love the women's murder club When The Bough Breaks by Jonathan Kel ...

... However, I'm glad I read it, as that's a period/area of American history I knew little about. I am still working on Brideshead Revisited, but I hope to have it finished today or tomorrow, as I have two other library books to get to, not to mention the two books loaned from coworkers, and ...

68. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This was a wonderful story told through the memories of Charles Ryder during WW2, whose army brigade moves into Brideshead, the manor house ...

68. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This was a wonderful story told through the memories of Charles Ryder during WW2, whose army brigade moves into Brideshead, the manor house owned by his friends. The story then starts while Charles is a student at Oxford where he befriends Sebastia ...

135. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh I really enjoyed this one. I very much like Waugh's writing. Although it was written so long ago, it hasn't really dated. Of course there are a few words he uses which over time have changed meaning or become abusive terms rather than the ...

#32 plekter, I have no good memories of that book at all! #35 maryjanemanolos, I just finished Brideshead Revisited, but I really liked it. Maybe you could try it again sometime. I am about to start The Robber Bride.

tried to read The Sea. boring. tried to read Brideshead Revisited. couldn't get into it. sat in front of bookshelves. stared. sighed. trying to read Billy Budd by Melville. I'm just not feeling anything right now! also reading Tarzan of the Apes and Kidnapped via dailylit

Just discovered that Benjamin Button is not on the list *blush* but have started Brideshead Revisited to make up for my faux pas!!!

... of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta." And I second (or third) the awesomeness of Brideshead Revisited, and not just the opening line.

#30 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This was my first foray into Waugh's writing and I loved it. I'll definitely be reading more of his books. This book has fantastic characters and a very enjoyable tone/writing style for me. Any other Waugh recommendations?

... A River Runs Through It 2) War of the Worlds 3) Invisible Man 4) 1984 5) Huck Finn 6) Charlotte's Web 7) Brideshead Revisited 8) The Crow Road 9) Hamlet 10) Romeo and Juliet 11) Divine Comedy 12) The Old Man and the Sea 13) by Mark Twain, never officially ...

... and had brilliant red hair, so I always picture Jamie looking a little like him. :o) I am slowly getting through Brideshead Revisited, not for lack of enjoyment, but because I've realized that at only 6 weeks out from our baby's due date, perhaps I ought to start reading about labor & ...

... actually think it was the style of writing and the characters did seem more fleshed out to me in The Razor's Edge than in Brideshead Revisited. But I found that correlation very interesting indeed. Thank you so much for stopping by Bonnie. I hope you have enjoyed the past few days with the ...

... love the style Maugham used in the writing of it. Immediately upon beginning the book, I was reminded of reading Brideshead Revisited and how much I disliked that book mainly because I could not understand nor care about the characters nor the way they lived their lives throughout the ...

... love the style Maugham used in the writing of it. Immediately upon beginning the book, I was reminded of reading Brideshead Revisited and how much I disliked that book mainly because I could not understand nor care about the characters nor the way they lived their lives throughout the ...

... love the style Maugham used in the writing of it. Immediately upon beginning the book, I was reminded of reading Brideshead Revisited and how much I disliked that book mainly because I could not understand nor care about the characters nor the way they lived their lives throughout the ...

A belated congrats on your Hot Review! Well deserved :) Brideshead Revisited is on my TBR as well. I only knew of it when I saw the trailers for the movie a while back. The trailer was intriguing but I can also see your take on the characters from what I remember. I'd still like to read it ...

... to raise the most money and amongst the customers to get the best bargains. Don't feel bad about not liking Brideshead Revisited. I wasn't that taken with it myself when I read it many moons ago. BUT the 1981 TV serial based on it was absolutely wonderful, so I think a lot of ...

... that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast. ************************************* Brideshead Revisited 'I have been here before,' I said; I had been there before; first with Sebastian more than twenty years ago on a cloudless day in June, when the ...

What did you think of Brideshead? I saw the movie last summer and have been meaning to read the book. I enjoyed The Razor's Edge too.

I have just finished Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck and am 1/2 way through The Razor's Edge by Somerset Maugham. The last two are soooo good. I should finish the one I'm on either today or tomorrow. Don't know what I'll grab next.

... when I read anything that comes close to a British classic. Please, please do not use my review as a deciding point on Brideshead Revisited. I know people all over the U.K. are pointing fingers at me right now. I hated to even write a review on it because I just knew the rotten tomatoes ...

... sy. I think I will take your advise on Waugh though as I am the only one on LT that I have seen not like or even love Brideshead Revisited.

... sy. I think I will take your advise on Waugh though as I am the only one on LT that I have seen not like or even love Brideshead Revisited.

... but needed the "true confessions" of someone else to help me be at peace with it. I am now reading Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, which I remember enjoying greatly in college, but since that's about all I remember about it, I'm trying it again!

The next book I picked up for my reading pleasure was Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library Classics)… by Evelyn Waugh. I know, I really know that I am very much in the minority when I say that I did not enjoy this book. (**I am hearing gasps ...

For my next reading pleasure I chose Brideshead Revisited (Everyman's Library Classics)… by Evelyn Waugh/ I know, I really know that I am very much in the minority when I say that I did not enjoy this book. (**I am hearing gasps all round the U.K.**) I enjoyed moments of the book, but ...

I chose Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh for my next read. All of you have made it sound so good and comfy so I kind of hate to post my review, but here it is: I know, I really know that I am very much in the minority when I say that I did not enjoy this book. (**I am hearing gasps ...

I've just started The Tenderess of Wolves, by Stef Penney. >> 83 How did you like Brideshead Revisited? It has been one of my favourites so far this year :)

Just finished: Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, The Moon is Down by Steinbeck and The Holidayby Stevie Smith and have begun The Razor's Edge by Maugham.

... a classic, but then I've had a similar disappointed reaction to famous authors/works of fiction that you had with Brideshead Revisited so I want to make sure it's a book that I'll want to read--and keep! Edited out duplicate message. Sorry about that! P.S. I've driving back to Sea ...

I re-read Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, having read it eons ago in high school. He is a master of magnificent prose.

... it is normal for him to go off on a tangent like this. I've read 3 other books of his - Scoop, Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited and he doesn't do it in any of them, as far as I know. Maybe that wasn't the right one for you. I think Decline and Fall was possibly better.

... of Dorian Gray 19. The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde 20. A Room of One's Own 21. Mrs. Dalloway 22. Brideshead Revisited 23. Flashman at the Charge 24. Cry Wolf 25. Every Last Drop

Thanks for the nice comments on my review. I'm wondering whether to go against my policy and add Brideshead to my library even though I don't own it, so I can do an official review. On another note, a friend of mine gave me a 'book journal' for my birthday - the cover looks like this:

That's a great review of Brideshead--I read it recently for a class, and loved it, but had many of the same reactions. Some of my friends actually thought it was hilarious, but I just laughed at a few moments and enjoyed it as a whole without really knowing why they all thought it was so funny. ...

... margin-right:10px;" src="http://www.librarything.com/picsizes/87/c7/a269372c016bf1ae97ba14c7d0816b6a.jpg"> 13. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh This, I think, is a very complicated novel, and my reaction to it is equally complicated. The language is quite beautiful, and at one ...

3) CLASSICS & MYTHOLOGY 1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 2. The Razor's Edge by Sumerset Maughm 3. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 4. Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck 5. Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy 6. Of Mice ...

... Safran Foer Steppenwolf, Herman Hesse +27 /2. I Know why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou +28 /3. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh Life a user's manual, Georges Perec A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens +29 /4. The Story of Lucy Gault, Will ...

Made Into Movies 1. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1/7) 4.5 stars 2. City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau (1/10) 4.5 stars 3. Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs (1/29) 3.5 stars 4. Eragon by Christopher Paolini (4/25) 3 stars 5. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (5/14) ...

... (Started Dec 28, 2008) 1. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket 2. Running with Scissors by Augeusten Burroughs 3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 4. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau 5. Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters 6. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth ...

... of the experience of reading his work, but it doesn't mean I have to agree with him. Nor do I suppose that anyone who reads Brideshead revisited with pleasure is in danger of being seduced into becoming a right-wing Roman Catholic snob. Obviously, it's easier to separate the person from the ...

#262- I'm pretty sure Brideshead Revisited also inspired my parents to name me Julia as they were in love with in in the 80s and there's no history of it whatsoever in the family. I can't remember exactly why I chose it as my Librarything username- unlike my namesake, I haven't got a drop of ...

I could see the Poetry. How was Brideshead? I saw the movie, it was very pretty. Haven't decided whether or not I'll read the book.

My daughter Julia's name was inspired by Brideshead Revisited (hello julia_flyte in #259!), because when we found out she would be a girl, we had also recently seen the series on TV. I've not seen the movie, Julia ... will have to watch it sometime!

... year.) 23) What is your favorite novel? Hm. I love Les Miserables, but haven't reread it since 9th grade. Otherwise... Brideshead Revisited? A Passage to India? The God of Small Things? 24) Play? Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Albee, Streetcar Named Desire by Williams, and A ...

... is now one of my favorites, though originally I ignored him because all I saw were compliments), and then more recently Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which I liked enough to go out and buy more of his books this past Saturday. I think most of the others where I've ignored non-blurbs ...

No. 17: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell No. 18: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh No. 19: Isaac Newton by James Glieck No. 20: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy No. 21: The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy

#231 MusicMom41, I read Brideshead Revisited earlier this year and enjoyed it very much. Hope you are too!

Thanks, ChocolateMuse! Yes, I have read Brideshead Revisited; it is because of that book that Evelyn Waugh earned his place among my "favorite authors". After reading Vile Bodies, I now know there are more reasons to keep him there! :)

Excellent books here christiguc! Keep it up! Have you read Brideshead Revisited? It's on my TBR and I'm interested in people's opinions of it.

... be waiting... for...? The perfect time to read it? Not sure. I'm really looking forward to it. I loved your review of Brideshead Revisited. Another book on my wishlist. I loved the British TV version of it.

... your favorite novel? No favourites, but Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, and Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, are all vying for top place. 24) Play? Any play by the Restoration Comedy genius, William Congreve. That man is a god! 25 ...

... had to buy it! So, I'm well into it. :) Edited to say: And it's very different from the other Waugh I've read--Brideshead Revisited.

How did you like Brideshead Revisited? I just started that one this week for the April Evelyn Waugh read. The only other books by Waugh I've read are A Handful of Dust and The Loved One which were both very funny and satirical. This one seems like it will be a very different style, ...

... Bodies and, if I get time, will re-read The Loved One, which I studied back in High School many years ago now. I read Brideshead Revisited a year or two ago and loved it. And ABC2 (in Australia) recently re-screened the ITV adaptation. I never watched it fully the first time around, so it ...

... Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis ...

... Complete Works of Shakespeare--Read most of the plays 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 35 Persuas ...

... Complete Works of Shakespeare--Read most of the plays 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 20 Middlemarch - George Eliot 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 35 Persuas ...

... (in no particular order)... - Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook - The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas - Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh - The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon - War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami ...

if you are enjoying Brideshead Revisited you may be interested in the wonderfully evocative BBC production of the same. Quite old now but an absolute classic.

Another Raj Quartet fan. Loved the TV series and the books. From around the same time, Brideshead Revisited was another great miniseries.

... - Thomas Hardy 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 41 ...

... - Charles Dickens 24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy *25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (MM is currently reading for April) 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky *28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck *29 ...

Personally, I'd read the Homer (both), take a quick break and read Brideshead Revisited (which is one of my favorite books in the world so enjoy!) and then finish up with the big scary Russians. But I'm very methodical like that, when planning big projects. It's the scientist coming out.

... War and Peace. Homers The Odyssey and The Iliad and Dostroyevsy's Crime and Punishment and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Those are my personal challenges this year and I am more than a little intimidated. ***holding mug of coffee up*** here's to my challenge!~! I know ...

... War and Peace. Homers The Odyssey and The Iliad and Dostroyevsy's Crime and Punishment and Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Those are my personal challenges this year and I am more than a little intimidated. ***holding mug of coffee up*** here's to my challenge!~! I ...

Hi BJ, I also have Brideshead Revisited to read this month and Get Shorty is on at least one of my lists for this year as well. I'll be interested to see how you like either/or both. BTW I read Cold Mountain a few years ago and well, no pun intended, it left me cold. I didn't really ...

Thanks, Nickelini--that was very informative and helpful. I've barely started Brideshead Revisited and I think the comments in the article will help keep me on track. "ornate style, sometimes excessively so"--I'll pretend it's a Victorian novel; I love those! ;-)

>8 Ooh, go for Brideshead Revisited, I Loved it !

Reposted this from the "other" thread. I just picked up Vile Bodies and Brideshead Revisited from the library. Not sure which one I will read first.

I just picked up Vile Bodies and Brideshead Revisited from the library. Not sure which one I will read first.

I just started Brideshead Revisited today. I'm hoping I will enjoy it--don't know much about it. There are some huge gaps in my "well read life" that LT is pointing out to me and helping me fill! ;-)

Ooh, Brideshead Revisited !

... for me. I have no idea what I am going to read next. I am thinking Frankenstein, but also considering Get Shorty and Brideshead Revisited. Swann's Way has fallen by the wayside for now! --BJ

... he injured himself in parachute training, at age forty, in December 1943. He asked for leave and within six months wrote Brideshead Revisited (1945), his most popular novel. Brideshead revives the first-person narrative of Work Suspended in Waugh's only full-length novel told from that point ...

I've ordered Brideshead Revisited and Vile Bodies from the library, so will read either / or both.

I've never read Brideshead Revisited and bought a copy especially for this read--25 cents for an excellent condition paperback! Years ago I read A Handful of Dust and The Loved One. I remember the latter being quite satirical and funny. I doubt I'll find Brideshead very funny--but I ...

... doesn't make them any less worthy. ;-) For example, one that I plan to read in April for a group read is Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Even though I recently reorganized all the books in the house, I was too scared to actually tag all the "other" TBR books I have - I think I would ...

Good - It's time for Waugh. I wonder if a separate thread for Brideshead Revisited is in order, since that's probably his most-read book? It's the one I'll be reading this month.

... Stories of Evelyn Waugh on tap, so I'll read some of his short stories in April. The only book of his I've read is Brideshead Revisited, so I'm looking forward to this.

... The Loved One and A Handful of Dust are the two of his I have already read--again, many years ago. I bought a copy of Brideshead Revisited spefically for this read. Now I just have to find time to read it!

I am listening to Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. It's read by Jeremy Irons. I'm not done, but I love it. I was listening to it and decided the words were so beautiful that I wasn't giving them enough attention and had to start over. This is one I can't listen to in the car. :)

... is a list: Lord of the Flies A Farewell to Arms Dolores Claiborne Prince of Tides The Talented Mr. Ripley Brideshead Revisited Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Odyssey Rebecca Lost Horizon Tales of South Pacific There are more but I can't think of all ...

... (Started Dec 28, 2008) 1. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket 2. Running with Scissors by Augeusten Burroughs 3. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 4. The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau 5. Deeds of the Disturber by Elizabeth Peters 6. The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth ...

... Howard 86. Studies in Classic American Literature by D.H. Lawrence 87. The Holiday by Stevie Smith 88. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 89. The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck 90. The Razor's Edge by Sumerset Maughm 91. The Fireman's Wife by Jack Rig ...

Hi Jennifer - I loved your review of Brideshead Revisited, one of my all time favourite reads. I'll also be looking out for a copy of Blindness. Actually this seems familiar and I think I've seen the movie. What other scifi/fantasy do you have lined up to read?

I just read Brideshead Revisited, and can't wait to hunt down his other works this summer when I have more time :)

Finished Brideshead Revisited, which was amazing, and started The Dark Tower book 2: The Drawing of the Three.

... its criticism. I'm perhaps being unfair - I did enjoy it, but Waugh went on the greater things (I'm not even considering Brideshead because it's unfair to compare most books to that.) and this is thoroughly on the juvenile side in his oeuvre

... recommend it. This was my first Waugh, and it was quite different from what I expected. I hope to read more of him soon. Brideshead Revisited, which I own, and Handful of Dust are the next two on my list. For those of you who enjoyed Vile Bodies too, I have to point out one of the LT ...

... it. This was my first Waugh, and it was quite different from what I expected. I hope to read more of him soon. Brideshead Revisited, which I own, and Handful of Dust are the next two on my list. Recommended for: Readers who appreciate biting satire; fans of the Thin Man ...

Loved your review of Brideshead Revisited. I am hoping to read it this spring or summer. --BJ

Ho and hum; last week I threw over 'Zen...' in favour of another of my alternate choices: Brideshead Revisited. So I'm not really getting around to tackling my TBR Books ! However, 'Brideshead...' is great ! On another note, we were in the chippy again last weekend and the server saw us ...

I started reading Brideshead Revisited, last week, really enjoying it !

E. Non-U.S. Fiction 5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This is a wonderful read, one to be savored. Waugh's characters and dialogue come alive with each passage, their quirks and quandaries as believable as they are fresh. At times, it reads as simply a break from life, one of ...

17. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This is a wonderful read, one to be savored. Waugh's characters and dialogue come alive with each passage, their quirks and quandaries as believable as they are fresh. At times, it reads as simply a break from life, one of those simple pleasures. ...

... fomer as "It" rather than by it's name. RA is right that it is Blaze which tracks Of Mice and Men. To all of the Brideshead Revisited posters, thanks for the discussion. Interesting stuff. You are painting me into a corner where I will have to read that one this year on my classics ...

... intend? Who is to say? But to quote Waugh from the dust jacket of the original hard-bound edition published in 1944... Brideshead Revisited is "an attempt to trace the workings of the divine purpose in a pagan world, in the lives of an English Catholic family, half paganized themselves, ...

Hi BJ I'm reading Brideshead Revisted at the moment, which I see you have on your main list; and am really enjoying it so would like to say that you are in for a good read there !

I read Brideshead Revisited last year and found it to be one of my favorite books of the year. I picked up A Handful of Dust this week at Half Price Books and look forward to more Waugh. I guess Waugh wrote this as a paean to Catholicism and the redemptive power of grace and conversion - ...

# 202 flissp - Religion and Brideshead Revisted - It's quite a subject at any time of the day, let alone midnight! Yes, Charles Ryder does reject religion through much of the book, and we watch as religion tears people apart in mind and in relationship. Yet at the end of the book, Ryder is found ...

apologies for several deleted messages, they don't appear to be posting properly - grrr. #194 petermc - I loved Brideshead Revisited (and enjoy Evelyn Waugh generally), although, it being the middle of the night, I'd struggle to say why, though I did re-read it last year - but will ...

Edited to add whole comment - for some reason only half my 1st sentence appeared... #194 petermc - I loved Brideshead Revisited (and enjoy his writing generally), although, it being the middle of the night, I'd struggle to say why, even though I did

... made my favorite reads of last year and bumped Bradbury to my list of favorite authors for good. Let me know how you like Brideshead Revisited. I have only read A Handful of Dust by Mr. Waugh, but was pleasantly surprised. I do believe that a four bagger is just right to start with, and ...

Anyone interested in Brideshead Revisited or the author Evelyn Waugh should spend some time on the following website. It's one of my favourites! Evelyn Waugh Newsletter and Studies http://www.lhup.edu/jwilson3/newsletter.htm

#191--MusicMom I just read Brideshead Revisited a few weeks ago. Let me know what you think of it. Particularly the religious aspects. I am interested in what other people think of them.

... the 100 best lists--which I'm using now. I have just picked my first book to read off the lists--in April I plan to read Brideshead Revisited which I've never read and it is listed on every one of the lists--a good place to start, don't you think! :-D ETA I was the one who said I ...

I've started Brideshead Revisited, which was a February choice for my online book group. > 4 In what way is Seize the Day a self-help book?

... Mite and Other Stories (TP) Spark, Muriel: The Only Problem (TP) impulse buy! Waugh, Evelyn: Brideshead Revisited (TP) Children/YA Dahl, Roald: The BFG Barker, Clive: The Thief of Always: A Fable impulse buy! Juster, Norton ...

... of the half-off Deptford Trilogy by Robertson Davies. The story is a spiritual odyssey along the lines of Brideshead Revisted or Razor's Edge, but (to my tastes, at least) much more satisfying and sophisticated. It's hilarious, horrifying, mysterious, and endlessly witty. S ...

... src="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wK6uBD1/counter.png"> 7410 1. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan *alternate 2. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh *alternate yey I have read BOTH February choices ! 3. The Book Thief, Markus Zusak *alternate 4. The Story of Lucy Gault, Wil ...

... he's written that is in print and am not supposed to do rereads this year. In happy optimism I bought a copy of Brideshead Revisited at a used book sale this weekend--it will also fit in a 999 category for me! :-)

... school, and supporting undervalued authors...") Fanny, I have read a little Waugh - A Handful of Dust and much of Brideshead Revisited, which I liked less - but would be glad to read more. The Sword of Honor Trilogy and Scoop are appealing. Yet, I did not vote for him, this time, ...

... seat- 2 Agatha Christie anthologies Who's Who in the Ancient World- Betty Radice Josephine: The Hungry Heart Brideshead Revisited - Waugh The Professor and Emma, A Fragment - Charlotte Bronte Crampton Hodnet - Barabara Pym Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys E ...

I have Brideshead Revisited on my list. So I will be interested to see what you think of it. --BJ

... to populate it. They choose 2 books a month: -JAN: Mr Pip or The Book Thief -FEB: Brideshead Revisited, or Mudbound -MARCH: Wuthering Heights, or The Birthing House, Christopher Ransom -APRIL: The Secret Scriptur ...

... Ignatius from A Confederacy of Dunces, mixed with the emptiness and the loneliness of the outsider Charles Ryder in Brideshead Revisited, and in spite of his selfishness and self-delusion, you can't help but feel sympathy for him (although for me, this sympathy stopped short of actually ...

Hmmm, Cushla and visitors. I bought Brideshead Revisited at an estate sale this past summer. Perhaps it needs to move to the top of the heap... I have a goal to read more classics this year.

I have not read Brideshead revisited, but loved the BBC series (and heard it was very close to the book). Loved Sebastian, I can still see him with Aloysius. I especially loved the first parts, Charles and Sebastian as friends, young, enjoying their collegue years before "real life" interupted. ...

I finished Brideshead Revisited. My boyfriend has the flu so I was not forced to watch "24." I cannot read when that show is on. Everything about it stresses me out! I really liked the book. You were right about the last 50 pages. The story really turned around. In the review I wrote ...

#5 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh What a good book. I really enjoyed it. The characters were great. I wanted to follow Sebastian a little more, since I liked him so much. But all the characters were engaging. I always find it interesting that in Brit Lit there is so much ...

Brideshead Revisited is one of my top 5 books. I have read it more times than I can count. But, if you really want a treat, listen to the audiobook version narrated by Jeremy Irons. His voice gives flight to Waugh's poetical prose.

I have about 50 pages left in Brideshead Revisited. I am enjoying it so far and am anticipating the wrap up. I might finish it tonight if there is nothing on tv. I have been waiting to finish before I watch the movie that came out at the end of 2008. Have you seen that yet? I am curious ...

Book 10: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 4 stars I have a lot of catching up to do on classics, and I bought this at last year's enormous charity bookfair. I enjoyed it very much. It tells of Charles Ryder and the Marchmain family, an aristocratic Catholic family. It's set ...

I'm reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, The Lost Traveller by Antonia White, and War and Peace very slowly... (edited for not-enough-coffee-typos)

... a good one to start with. Also, I was reading your book challenge and I've also read The Secret History. Have you read Brideshead Revisited? I know they're both really different books but the main character in The Secret History reminded me of Charles Ryder in a way. If you're interested in ...

I have a copy of Evermore I want to trade for a ER copy of Brideshead Revisited. PM me if interested.

... Reversal of Fortune, in which Jeremy Irons plays Claus von Bulow brilliantly, IMHO. He's also pretty well known for Brideshead Revisited--the TV miniseries, not the recent movie. edited to add: and Will is right, his voice is dreamylicious. But I am a sucker for British and ...

... Mr. Stephen Tennant, the prototype of the early 20th century fop and the purported original for Anthony Blanche* in Brideshead Revisited, for whom the epithet "effeminate" was far too mild. His story is told entertainingly in Serious Pleasures. *"Anthony Blanche, the "aesthete" p ...

I'm reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Enjoying the Teddy so far.

... sizable minority of the nominated movies. I blame my brokeness. On another note-- did anyone like the movie they made of Brideshead Revisited? To me it was sorely lacking, but it made me actually go and read the book, for which I will forever appreciate it. I was completely gobsmacked by the ...

... Boy Alice's Adventures in Wonderland All the King's Men Angela's Ashes Black Dahlia Breakfast at Tiffanys Brideshead Revisited Clockers Cry the Beloved Country Dr. Zhivago Dry White Season Election Endless Love Ethan Frome Great Expectations How Green ...

... by Charles Jackson 3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 4. The Soloist by Steve Lopez 5. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 6. The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio by Terry Ryan 7. 8. 9. VI. Recommended here on LT: 1. The Coff ...

... Contesting Home Defence it's non-fiction but very readable all about the home guard. I've just finished reading Brideshead Revisited which was written in during wwii, it's a good afternoon read : ) #9 Hi Bookywooky, I worked in a book shop over chirstmas and exactly which book ...

BOOKS THAT HAVE BECOME FILMS 1. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisted 13/01/09 2. Bernhard Schlink - The Reader 14/03/09 3. Ian McEwan - Atonement 10/05/09 4. Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook 17/05/09 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

... past us, like subliminal advertising, is quite another. When Evelyn Waugh found his own form of Christianity, he wrote Brideshead Revisted. He wore it on his sleeve. To me, it was his worst book. I loved the light-heartedness of his earlier work.

FFortuna, Howard's End was published in 1910 - so not wildly off, but not quite :-) In Brideshead Revisited a fair chunk of the action takes place between 1923 and (I think) 1926 or so. It's not exactly the average person's life, but does give some vague idea of what the upper classes were up ...

... Loving, Henry Green, 1970's 140. Cannery Row, Steinbeck, 1960's 141. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1965 142. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's 143. The Plague, Albert Camus, 1980's 144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960's 145. *The Heart of the Matter, Graha ...

... Loving, Henry Green, 1970's 140. Cannery Row, Steinbeck, 1960's 141. Animal Farm, George Orwell, 1965 142. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 1980's 143. The Plague, Albert Camus, 1980's 144. Under the Volcano, Malcom Lowry, 1960's 145. *The Heart of the Matter, Graha ...

... why the caged bird sings, Maya Angelou 6. Mudbound, Hillary Jordan pp324 7. The Gunslinger, Stephen King pp238 8. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh 9. The Drawing of the Three, Stephen King 10. I spit on your graves, Boris Vian 11. Batman and the Mad Monk 12. The Book Thief ...

... Waiariki by Patricia Grace 4 1/2 12. Cicero by Antony Everitt 3 1/2 11. The Lost Traveller by Antonia White 5 10. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 4 January 9. The Pankhursts by Martin Pugh 3 8. The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West 4 7. All Quiet on the Weste ...

... recent versions of Mansfield Park & Persuasion; they were made by ITV, which used to make excellent period drama like Brideshead Revisited but now longer believes there is such a thing as a lowest common denominator and is subsequently plunging into new uncharted depths - on the other hand, ...

... r The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson Sunshine by Robin McKinley Chalice by Robin McKinley (and I'm not done yet)

... it included great classics Middlemarch, Bleak House, The Moonstone and The Woman in White, Remains of the Day, Brideshead Revisited, two Dorothy Sayers as well as great contemporary works such as Unaccustomed Earth, Possession, Arthur Schlesinger's journals and Hot, Fla ...

... Ishiguro 6. Dracula by Bram Stoker. 7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. 8. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. 9. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

... Finished Jan. 10 iii. A Room of One's Own Finished Feb 1 iv. The Picture of Dorian Gray Finished Mar 22 v. Brideshead Revisited Finished Apr 5 vi. Dubliners Finished May 31 vii. The Aeneid Finished June 25 viii. Dr Zhivago Finished Dec. 12 ix. The Waves Finished Decem ...

Message 137 I've been meaning to read Brideshead Revisited and your post prompts me to do so in 2009. Thanks for your excellent description.

>49 & 50: I tried reading Brideshead Revisited and had to stop reading it - I don't like the sound of The Loved One haven't got that one in my library anyway. I thoroughly enjoyed Scoop and plan to read Decline and Fall, Black Mischief, A Handful of Dust and Put Out More Flags ...

... (Read) 8. Dracula (Read) 9. Get Shorty (Read) 10. Dangerous Liasons (Read) 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited (Read) Now, I just need to choose the 12 for my alternates list. What fun! :) --BJ

I'd also recommend Brideshead Revisited; I read it this year and enjoyed it. I'm planning to get to some of his other works at some point. I'm currently working my way through The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and really enjoying it.

... vote for The Loved One being good fun too. TT, I don't know how much Evelyn Waugh you've read, but I'll recommend Brideshead Revisited and Vile Bodies if you're planning on reading more next year. I really enjoy Waugh, although I did find that when I read a lot together, the ...

I finally got round to Brideshead Revisited having put it off with all the trauma of thesis writing and starting a new job etc and so forth. Anyway, the conclusion is: why did I ever put off reading it? It was wonderful. Review here ...

Brideshead Revisted ? The Handmaid's Tale ? I Am Legend ?

I'll nudge Don Quixote for fiction and The Sacred and the Profane for nonfiction. Are you sure you don't have a book on the architecture of windmills? It would go nicely with the Cervantes.

... Pratchett 9. (67) Notes from an Exhibition - Patrick Gale 10. (76) Stand into Danger - Alexander Kent 11. (83) Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 12. (89) Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith 13. (100) Miss Pettigrew lives for a day - Winifred Watson 14. (101) ...

>137 orangeena & 138 BDB: I have got several Waugh's on my reading list, including A Handful of Dust Couldn't stomach Brideshead Revisited but I just may not have been in the mood. I will try three others in 2009 before I look at Brideshead again. I'll probably start with HoD as you (BDB) ...

... Damsel in Distress - PG Wodehouse 84 Charing Cross Road - Helene Hanff A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh Cotillion - Georgette Heyer Have His Carcase - Dorothy L. Sayers Hubbub - Emily Cockayne Paradise Regained - John Milton Th ...

#71 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh This has long been on my TBR list - picked it up by chance and was immediately absorbed. In a lifetime of reading, how have I missed it? But I'm thankful for this pleasure that lay in wait for me all these years. So beautifully written - a complex ...

... Joanna by Kaari Utrio (read) 3. Hope by Lesley Pearse (read) 4. The Water Devil by Judith Merkle Riley (read) 5. Brideshead revisited by Evelyn Waugh (read) 6. The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (read) 7. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer (read) ...

EX: The House of the Dead, After the Quake, Brideshead Revisited, Casino Royale, Sons and Lovers, "Brokeback Mountain", Amadeus, O Pioneers!, The Odyssey, Day

... "inspirational romances" or Dee Henderson books, someone (please God, SOMEONE!!!) pick up our copy of Don Quixote or Brideshead Revisited...... I can only dream.

Brideshead Revisited **** by Evelyn Waugh 11/14/08 Casino Royale **½ by Ian Fleming 11/15/08 The Ghost Writer *** by Philip Roth 11/15/08

What? No nudge for Brideshead? Here's one.

... and smilla's sense of snow. The best part of the movie version was just how COLD the movie felt. This summer we enjoyed Brideshead Revisited though, admittedly, i have a terrible crush on emma thompson. Unlike Alan Moore, i really enjoyed v for vendetta and unlike almost the rest of the ...

... Barbarians **** The Sorrow of Belgium Say You're One of Them The Lost Dog By the Sea Apples and Oranges Brideshead Revisited* The Forger's Spell Bridge of Sighs The Pillars of the Earth I Shall Bear Witness ** To the Bitter End Whew - that was more books ...

#88 - Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - pretty good

I finished listening to Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, and have just started listening to Night by Elie Wiesel.

I am enjoying The Crow Road by Iain Banks and I am listening to Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

Listening to Brideshead Revisited in Oxford, England.

Def not keeping up to date with this, but still reading. Worried I will forget some! 39 Brideshead Revisited. Really enjoyed it. Writing style so different to the earlier and lighter works of his. Probably my favourite Waugh. 40 Purple Hibiscus. Excellent book, gripping, exotic and ...

Just finished up The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather, and loved it! I am about to begin listening to Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

Almost certain that's Brideshead Revisited

... last time I went to a signing, he was quite friendly. Ho hum. Anyway, this was just a quick note to say that I finished Brideshead Revisited at the weekend after all. Still love it. Will probably write a bit more about it later when I'm not at work!

... more second hand however, which I'm very much looking forward to at some point. I'd definitely recommend reading more. Brideshead Revisited is probably my favourite that I've read, but I also very much enjoyed Vile Bodies. > 65: Whisper1. Thank you! As is yours! I don't know the Book ...

... I also recently read Orwell's essays in Why I Write which were funny, heartbreaking, and great reads. I didn't get to Brideshead Revisited but did read The Loved One by Waugh and loved it.

... it didn't capture my imagination in the way that The Man Who Was Thursday or Basil Howe did. 64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited: reading this at work, so still ongoing, but am enjoying it as much as I did the first time round. 68) Ilona Andrews - Magic Burns: I have no ...

... it didn't capture my imagination in the way that The Man Who Was Thursday or Basil Howe did. 64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited: reading this at work, so still ongoing, but am enjoying it as much as I did the first time round. 68) Ilona Andrews - Magic Burns: I have no ...

... I'd call it a favourite. Identity Crisis by Brad Meltzer (a JLA member's wife is raped and murdered) is very good, as is The Sacred and the Profane by Dean Motter & Ken Steacy (Jesuits... in Spaaaaace). I'm also a big fan of the works of Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Dan Dare and Trigan Empire - ...

... it's not something that would normally leap out at me. Back on Bookmooch it goes! 63)Napoleon of Notting Hill and 64) Brideshead Revisited still ongoing (I'm reading Brideshead at work, so it'll be slow progress, but I'd forgotten just how readable Evelyn Waugh can be. Such a good ...

... I am looking to take three books with me with the option to have more brought in if necessary. I am thinking of giving Brideshead Revisited a try and possibly taking Gone with the Wind to re-read if I can't find anything new to take but would like suggestions for similar books. A ...

... 9/2008 7. The Lighthouse, P.D. James, 7/19/2008 8. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale, 7/22/08 9. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh, 7/25/08 10. Have His Carcase, Dorothy L. Sayers, 7/31/08 11. The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie, 8/4/08 12. T ...

amarantic although I have not read Brideshead revisited, I have seen (more than once) the BBC series. As I understand from others this series is very close to the book. And I liked the first half the most, always have. After that it is all decline somehow, don't know better words to describe it.

63. brideshead revisited, evelyn waugh i really liked this for, oh, maybe the first book of it. "it's light," i said, recommending it to many, "and really rather subtle, but quite all right." but somewhere around the middle of the book, my feelings towards this novel began to change. perhaps ...

... Hill: am on a bit of a G K Chesterton kick at the moment - I have a couple more lined up. 64) Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited - I went through a bit of an Evelyn Waugh phase at school and I think this was my favourite really. Last night, I went to see a showing of the new ...

31) Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Written in the mid 1940's, Waugh's book is rich with descriptions of the aristocratic life of a great English family who own the luxurious Brideshead estate. Charles Ryder becomes caught up in the family first through his relationship with his ...

I recently saw Brideshead Revisited (the incredible miniseries, not the newer movie). So it sounds familiar -- is it Waugh? Is it Scoop?

90. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. 8 stars. ER Review to follow. 91. Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende. 9 stars. Audio. LT. Review to follow.

... ounce of guilt. *sigh* Almost makes these high-number birthdays something to look forward to. I've finally finished Brideshead Revisited ~ it wasn't easy to get into, and I almost gave up after 50 pages, but I persevered and am so glad I did! What a great read! I also finished ...

... seems to think that I am an elderly, perverted man (Love and the Incredibly Old Man) who is also a filthy rich, British (Brideshead Revisited) lord/schoolteacher (Schooled) living in Brooklyn (In the Country of Brooklyn). I am none of these. The books all work with my library, though.

... Killing Circle, Any Given Doomsday, and Mr. White's Confession ~ right again, as I love mysteries). Not sure what Brideshead Revisited means ~ that I like historical fiction? Surely it doesn't have anything to do with my stuffed animal collection. ;-)

I almost invoked the "Pearl Rule" last night with Brideshead Revisited but decided to forge ahead for another 20 pages or so, and I am so glad I did! Within a few more pages, the story took off. A little further on, I got to the part where Charles went home to live for the summer with his ...

#181, 183: Most readers don't realize that there are actually 2 versions of Brideshead Revisited. While recuperating from a training mishap and working in a relative frenzy, Waugh wrote the original manuscript between Feb.1 and June 10, 1944, and it was immensely successful in the original ...

... have Decline and Fall and A Handful of Dust in the house so it will be them next. Interesting that you say that about Brideshead Revisited, quite often the way isn't it, that the popular ones can be overrated and you have to dig deeper to find the gems - not sure why, maybe because they're ...

... dry wit and high society satire. I hope you enjoy Scoop and like it enough to read more of his books. Frankly, I think Brideshead Revisited which is probably his most widely known book is one of my least favorites of his!

Brideshead Revisited - the first part, when Charles Ryder is at Oxford and Brideshead and Venice. I'd like to be in all these places, but especially Brideshead. ETA: re #13 tiddleyboom, I always wanted Romeo and Juliet to end differently. I wouldn't mind if you dropped by and fixed things.

I finished Brideshead Revisited over the weekend, and it's still fantastic. Now I'm on to Ironweed by William Kennedy, which I'm enjoying much more than I thought I would. I love all the dead people reacting to the main character's presence - it's a really interesting way of introducing Fran ...

# 75 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh I was lucky enough to score an ER copy of one of my favorite books in the world, in an edition that I was going to buy (although not the movie tie-in. I didn't even realize that the picture was supposed to be of Emma Thompson, it's so photoshopped). ...

... Bleak House, about a month after I started it. It's wonderful - the last few hundred pages just fly. Next up will be Brideshead Revisited, which is a reread (revisit?) but I need to refresh my memory to write my ER review since it has been several years. Happily, I love the book and am ...

... is a favorite of mine. (He got rather polemical in his latter works, but Love in Ruins is a fun read. There is always Brideshead Revisited and anything by Chesterton. The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke is worthwhile, especially Rilke's Book of Hours. And I always find Rumi to ...

I just figured it was a glitch, but the Brideshead Revisited bonus batch (none of which I requested as they were all US) generated a didn't snag comment on my profile. Just for the record if it helps you looking into things....

I'm getting A Glass of Time by Michael Cox, and got Brideshead Revisited last month. The timing's perfect on the Michael Cox. I've been dying for a new mystery!

... finishing up by reading The Killing Dance, an Anita Blake book. Then, I am going to start (for the first time) reading Brideshead Revisited, which I got from LT's July Bonus ER group. Also started listening to Portrait in Sepia on my iPod.

Evelyn Waugh is really funny - and I think that Brideshead Revisited is the least funny of his novels. I liked the movie a lot - it is not funny at all (I guess the director decided it must be Very Serious) but I really enjoyed it anyway. I have the miniseries in my netflix queue, but netflix ...

145 is Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which I really enjoyed. It was much funnier than I expected! Oddly enough I liked just about everyone but Sebastian, who struck me as just too selfish; I couldn't dredge up much sympathy for him, I'm afraid. I must see the miniseries or the movie; I ...

#60 Brideshead Revisited did show up unexpectedly! That is even more exciting than receiving one I know I'm getting!

... inks A Constant Heart by Siri Mitchell Emily Post by Laura Claridge The Whiskey Rebels by David Liss Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Road to Rescue by Mietek Pemper The Faith of Barack Obama by Stephen Mansfield XXXXSticklers, Sideburns and Biki ...

Title: Brideshead Revisited Date Arrived: 8/12/08 Method of Delivery: FedEx Publisher: Everyman's Library Location Recieved: Los Angeles, CA Book Format: Hardcover Packaging: bubble-padded envelope

... letters. 101 Dog Tricks by Kyra Sundance - my dog and I are working on "roll over", "which hand", and "fetch". Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - from the ER bonus batch, an Everyman's library hardcover/movie tie-in. Yay!

Yay for twice the free books! Title: Brideshead Revisited Date Arrived: 8-12-08 Method of Delivery: FedEx Express Publisher: Everyman's Library Location Sent From: Brooklyn, NY Location Recieved: Northern NJ Book Format: Hardcover Packaging: Bubble-padded envelope

Title: Brideshead Revisited Date Arrived: 8/12/08 Method of Delivery: FedEx Publisher: Everyman's Library Location Sent From: Brooklyn, NY Location Recieved: New York, NY Book Format: Hardcover Packaging: bubble-padded envelope

woot woot! got Brideshead Revisited.

I got a copy of Brideshead Revisited! Thank you Abby! I love, love, love Evelyn Waugh and this just made my whole day!

>151 - Brideshead Revisited is probably Waugh's worst novel (even he didn't like it that much when he re-read to write an introduction) but it is enjoyable in that 'good bad book' way. Re Dead Souls - Gogol wrote most of the second part of the series and then burnt it just before his death, ...

My review of The Hobbit is here. LizT, please review Brideshead Revisited--seems like now would be a good time. Whoever picks for me, please just make sure it's in English! And nothing too heavy, please--work is brutal now. Edited because ...

Book #3: Brideshead Revisted by Evelyn Waugh. Just started last night...

My two cents: Brideshead Revisited! They are all good choices, though. Jamaica Inn comes in a very close second.

... (Read) 7. Frankenstein 8. Dracula 9. Get Shorty 10. Dangerous Liasons 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited I am trying to decide if I like my original list or my alternate list better. I will start off with my original list. I am planning a theme read ...

... giving us 25 copies of the book, so people can read it and get excited about the movie. Is anyone here planning on seeing Brideshead Revisted when it comes out? (see the blog post about the giveaway, and request your copy in the ...

I just picked up Brideshead Revisited. I saw the trailer for the new movie with Emma Thompson, and it intrigued me. Has anyone else read it?

From Half Price Books: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins all lovely copies.... and for my husband: A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean

Yes to the Artist. How about Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh?

... Savage Detectives, Grass for my Pillow, Days Between Stations, Shooting an Elephant, And Where Were You, Adam?, Brideshead Revisited. Worst ones: Three Men in a Boat, Slowness, Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age!.

... Tempest - Shakespeare The Castle - Kafka The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Brideshead Revisited - Waugh

... II is that in Christianity at least, we are not judged by our action, but by our relationships. (I highly recommend Brideshead Revisited for good view of how this looks in real life.) As one gay Christian put it to me, he God was less interested in his sexual fantasies than in the way he ...

... Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford , Atticus, and Hitler's Niece. Although older, Evelyn Waugh's novels, such as Brideshead Revisited, are also quite good.

I read a lot, but it is 80% non-fiction. I would have had to ask about Brideshead Revisited. I did find a cure for the pronunciation problem. My son gave me an electronic dictionary that speaks. It has helped my word knowledge and pronunciation.

I have never even thought about reading Brideshead Revisited or anything else by Evelyn Waugh. Trivia is about shared knowledge and there are so many paths to share. #3 Is your cat 'a shade of purple gray'? (The Flying Sorcerers) Dorothy Parker was a gossip columnist newspapers and on ...

... his childish whining. Oh how I would love to smack him in the head an tell him to be a MAN for a change. I started Brideshead Revisited last night and see this as only the first in many books that will be read before Strangers. Sigh.

... Jones Island of Dr. Moreau Lord Jim Around the World in Eighty Days Madam Bovary Modern Classics: Brideshead Revisited The Bell Jar The Jungle Bridge of San Luis Rey ( re-read) Orlando Sons and Lovers

... that I'll be in the right frame of mind someday. Others I've had in the back of my mind to buy like In Cold Blood and Brideshead Revisited. Actually, I did just buy a 2nd hand Folio Society version of the latter, so I'm one step closer. Hopefully it doesn't end up like Anna Karenina.

... to John Hersey's wonderful novel A Bell for Adano, and 2 classics were published that year in the UK: Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and George Orwell's Animal Farm.

... the full length double doored french windows opening on the the expansive British lawn seen time and again in films such as Brideshead Revisited, Pride and Predjudice Room With a View North and South Bleak House and other recent film adaptations of literary classics. MrA is already gone. ...

... 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, it does have at its core a fairly serious commentary on many ...

... The Once and Future King by T. H. White; Lamb by Christopher Moore; any of the Jeeves books by Wodehouse; Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh; Don Quixote by Cervantes; Winterdance by Gary Paulsen; anything by Nick Hornby; the Mme. Ramwotse series by Alexa ...

... of Dorothy Wordsworth Christopher Lloyd, the Adventurous GardenerA Fine Balance Reading in the Dark Waking SamuelBrideshead Revisiteda 1944 editionJohn Irving's memoir The imaginary GirlfriendAllen Lacy The Gardener's eyeGreen thoughts Eleanor Perenyi ( I read this many years ...

... ***½ 6. The World According to Garp by John Irving ***½ 7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ****½ 8. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh **** Extra Credit: Spies and Private Eyes {complete} 1. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold by John Le Carré **** 2. The ...

... mid-20th century - maybe somewhere between Evelyn Waugh and Iris Murdoch. In some ways it's like a very long version of Brideshead revisited, looking at how English society changed between the thirties and the sixties from an upper middle-class perspective, but it doesn't come to Waugh's ...

... connection I can remember making was Moby-Dick on a sailing holiday - in the Ionian sea! >1 I was in Oxford when Brideshead revisited was first on TV: it would have been instant social death to have been seen with a copy. Or a teddy bear. There was a thriving little industry providing ...

... locale - the Oxford backs - is the place to read Zuleika Dobson (touchstone not working...), or the early bits of Brideshead Revisited (which then shifts to someplace like Castle Howard, of course...). The Last of the Mohicans needs to be read at Cooper's Cave in Glens Falls, and ...

I think this one is going to go out like a lamb - all mine are listed above already. Could we count Brideshead revisted (the Marchmain family)?

Brideshead Revisited ???

... Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, while on TV she memorably appeared as Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited. Music is central to her life, and her choices reveal a passion for opera, plus Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Heinrich Schiff playing ...

... Blanche in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, while on TV she memorably appeared as Lady Marchmain in Brideshead Revisited. Music is central to her life, and her choices reveal a passion for opera, plus Alfred Brendel playing Schubert, Heinrich Schiff playing ...

>118: Smiley I went into Brideshead Revisited with no preconceived notions. I had never read Evelyn Waugh before so I was pleasantly surprised with the book. It's not a favorite, nor one I would ardently recommend, but I enjoyed it. I thought there were some very interesting points made ...

#93, Kell_Smurthwaite: Personally, I was disappointed in Brideshead Revisited. Just a good book, not a great one. I actually liked the Masterpiece Theater treatment better. There are two outstanding books I know of on Oxford. One fiction, Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers and ...

... Stepsister, which is good so far. I like Gregory Maguire's unique look at the Cinderella tale. Just about finished with Brideshead Revisited. I promised myself I'd read it after visiting Oxford and hearing about it as one of the most famous books to come out of the university, and never ...

... It was really good. I'm sad to be done with it. I also finished East of Eden. On my way home I'm going to start Brideshead Revisited for my listening commute. Also enjoying Neverwhere. I love good books.

I'm almost finished with Brideshead Revisited and am really quite enthralled by it! I'll have a hard time choosing a book to follow this one...

... to understand shallow people. LG any favorites. In addition to The Loved One I have only read Decline and Fall and Brideshead Revisited.

... exactly literary names!) It was only in reading #18 that I "remembered" that we chose my daughter Julia's name from Brideshead Revisited...

A few random examples from the hundreds: Brideshead revisited and Jude the obscure are probably the most famous examples where you see some real Oxford landmarks. A lot of 19th/early 20th C novels have opening chapters in which the hero is an undergraduate at Oxford, although mostly it's ...

... Morelli, and of course pistol packing Grandma! Truely highbrow! Lately I have been reading garden memoirs, in particular Charles Elliot's The Potting Shed Papers and Young Adult books. I am volunteer librarian for my summer community during my vacation and I try to keep up with what the ...

>56,57 - yes, Mapp and Lucia. Well done for working it out if you haven't read them! >57 Brideshead revisited: the sacred and profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder -- having spotted Aloysius, Oxford and Catholic rather jump out, don't they? I'll do an other one tomorrow.

The Famished Road by Ben Okri Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote The Last Supper by Charles McCarry The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami

... Arnold Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor Willard Sterne Randall Death and the Pregnant Virgin S. T. Haymon Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Evelyn Waugh The Destruction of Knossos: The Rise and Fall of Minoan Crete H. E. L. Meller ...

Life After Death: the Burden of Proof:done. Sacred Games:A Novel by Vikram Chandra:started. Currently on page: chire in 50 Book Challenge : Chire's 50 (Jun 16, 2007, 9:47pm)

30. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

... Clark -- massively entertaining; the end of the last book, written by Jane while Clark is dying, is genuinely sad. Brideshead -- a "panegyric preached over an empty coffin". Widely misinterpreted as snobbish. Read the second half, people!

... like that because it reminds me of living there for the few years after undergrad. I also really like John Bentley Mays' Emerald City: Toronto Revisited. An adoptee of the city, he spent years in its urban, suburban and post-industrial fold and is able to capture (in the book and in a ...

... my fiction is science fiction or fantasy and those are mostly easy to tag. How would you categorize Anna Karenina, Brideshead Revisited, Paradise Lost, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness (classics?), Prince of Tides, Accidental Tourist (contemporary fiction?), Godfather (crim ...

Most popular: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince #100: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh #50: Atonement by Ian McEwan #10: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre I have 492 unshared books, but I know they are so many because a lot of them are in Italian.

How about Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh? The Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy by Sigrid Undset.

HoldenCarver: why do you think that On Beauty is a re-write of Brideshead Revisited?

I have a big problem with Zadie Smith's On Beauty; namely that it is little more than a re-writing of Brideshead Revisited, and not a very good one at that. To echo Trapnel, I felt that The Accidental was by far a better book, and while I can't judge on accessiblity, I'd say it ...

... series/film. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson Journey into Fear by Eric Ambler or any of his other books Brideshead Revisited & Sword of Honour by Evelyn Waugh

... 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.

Two of my all-time favourite slashy novels are Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh and The Secret History by Donna Tartt. Both m/m. I feel as though the whole world knows Brideshead already, especially after the excellent and very faithful miniseries, but for those who don't: Int ...

If you look at Waugh, the more he questions modernity the less impressive his novels become. Brideshead Revisited, for example, is a novel of rampant snobbery 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, ...

... Classics in 98, and am now doing a D.Phil in Church History, still at the same college :) Anyway, obviously I would say Brideshead Revisited, for the Oxford we all wished still existed. But the books I remember most clearly from my time here are all the Latin and Greek texts I waded through. ...