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3.36 AVERAGE
3.36 AVERAGE
This is pretty damn funny - but in that very British way. It is also, incidentally, currently being used as a divider of various under garments in my closet.
Liked the first quarter, found it quite amusing but then got bored with the rest
Reading online at DailyLit.
"Death cancels all engagements," in this morbidly funny satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. When a beautiful magician swears she can love no man susceptible to her charms she sets off a dangerous taste for suicide among the college boys.
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
"Death cancels all engagements," in this morbidly funny satire of undergraduate life at Oxford. When a beautiful magician swears she can love no man susceptible to her charms she sets off a dangerous taste for suicide among the college boys.
Free download available at Project Gutenberg.
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Genuinely hilarious! Set at Oxford and full of memorable characters
I understand this work was to have been a satire on university life in the Edwardian era, or perhaps a satire of upper class, but I found it a bit silly. Zuleika isn't much of a character to speak of, but maybe that was the point. At any rate, this is a requirement on the Modern Library Top 100, so one more down.
this took FOREVER to finish mostly because of its 1) serious pacing issues 2) terrible female character development but we been knew
An absolute gem. I've no idea why it took me so long to read this. A send-up of academe, of classism, of romantic delusions, but with a great fondness for genuine romance, and for academic seductions. The language is ornate, effervescent, erudite, delightful; there are hilarious ghosts; there are sentient statues. I read a library copy, but plan to buy my own, to cheer my afternoons and to press upon friends who've not yet read it.
Dear God that was excruciating. A comic novel of sparkling wit and effervescent ya di yah, aka a painfully dated, mannered, twee, horrifyingly self-satisfied period piece with about two good lines that have survived the century since its writing. "Unfunny" isn't the half of it; Beerbohm must have been the biggest bore unhung on this basis. Recommended for dullards who go on and on and *on* about having been to Oxford, and literally nobody else.