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2.85k reviews for:
Brideshead Revisited: The sacred & profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
3.87 AVERAGE
2.85k reviews for:
Brideshead Revisited: The sacred & profane memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Evelyn Waugh
3.87 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
relaxing
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
anthony blanche best character i wanna be his friend
This book ranks 45 out of 100 of the best books via BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/bigread/top100.shtml). It's a coming of age type of book except that the main character is looking back at his youth. When we look back at our younger selves, we see the things we did differently through our older selves. The people he hung out with, the things he did, the love he had for his friends gives you so much to think about.
I read this book with a "Banned" book club group. This story gave us so much to talk about. It took me about halfway through or at least to Part Two of the book to really get into it. There are some subtle pieces of information that if you catch them early on makes the rest of the story, and the ending make more sense.
I read this book with a "Banned" book club group. This story gave us so much to talk about. It took me about halfway through or at least to Part Two of the book to really get into it. There are some subtle pieces of information that if you catch them early on makes the rest of the story, and the ending make more sense.
In an effort to read more of the Great Novels, I bought this a few weeks ago and I’m so glad I did. And while the prose is elliptical in that way that most older novels are (as much due to changes in the way we communicate as to the glossing-over of more “explicit” themes that had to be rendered implicit at the time) BRIDESHEAD still reads really quickly and if it makes you “work for it” a little more than contemporary novels do, it’s a pleasure doing so. There really isn’t much to say about this that hasn’t been said thousands of times since it’s publication, but it was a true pleasure to read and is so obviously a huge influence on more modern books I’ve read over the years without knowing their debt to Waugh (McEwan’s ATONEMENT springs to mind). Excellent.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I expected something more witty, something more satirical, something more gay (take that whatever way you will)--what I got instead was one of the most beautiful meditations of life, time, memory and loss I've every experienced. Might very well become an all-time favorite.
Picked this because I vowed to read more of the "classics" and the books on all those "Must Read" lists. In the first couple of chapters I wasn't sure I picked poorly, but it grew on me and then I could not put it down. It is just very English and wordy. The descriptions are beautiful and VERY minute, but I normally need more action to pull me in. Once I had a good grip of the characters then I was more invested and hooked. The ending came too fast and I wanted dearly to know the futures of these new friends.
-had very funny moments
-characterization of Flyte siblings was SO interesting, identifiable, and dynamic. obviously i am partial to julia, who came into the book taking a cigarette from charles’s mouth and ended it by (proverbially) putting it back. she was fascinating the whole way through
-wish that sebastian had come back at all at the end? felt odd that, having been so central to charles, he kind of disappeared from the pages. but interesting that charles “lost” both him and julia to religion in the end
-which makes me think: other than a slight shift towards religion, not sure how much charles was actually changed by the events at brideshead. maybe we don’t see enough of him in the present to know/the present is too close to the past. but he felt the most static of anybody.
-characterization of Flyte siblings was SO interesting, identifiable, and dynamic. obviously i am partial to julia, who came into the book taking a cigarette from charles’s mouth and ended it by (proverbially) putting it back. she was fascinating the whole way through
-wish that sebastian had come back at all at the end? felt odd that, having been so central to charles, he kind of disappeared from the pages. but interesting that charles “lost” both him and julia to religion in the end
-which makes me think: other than a slight shift towards religion, not sure how much charles was actually changed by the events at brideshead. maybe we don’t see enough of him in the present to know/the present is too close to the past. but he felt the most static of anybody.