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A review by tlsouthard
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
4.0
Oh, Lizzie, you awful woman. Many hours spent tracking your ups and downs and that spendy, spendy necklace! And what a treat it was.
I don't know that I think Trollope is for everyone - in today's world we want plot and action and drive. And Trollope gives us something else. He gives us pages and pages of nothing but character. The basic plot of this book could be told in two pages - but the other 648 are spent on wandering through society and looking at characters and their interactions in meticulous detail. If you don't have the taste for that, Trollope's not for you.
But he *is* for me and I found all the hours I spent with Lizzie and John and Lucy and the Fawns and enjoyable time and almost like a good gossip about folks we knew.
I will admit that I wanted a little more "justice" for Lizzie for her actions, she is such a snot. But I suppose being in Scotland (and later, I am sure, the outskirts of London society) and being married to someone not quite what she had set her eyes upon will be dire indeed in her eyes.
I don't know that I think Trollope is for everyone - in today's world we want plot and action and drive. And Trollope gives us something else. He gives us pages and pages of nothing but character. The basic plot of this book could be told in two pages - but the other 648 are spent on wandering through society and looking at characters and their interactions in meticulous detail. If you don't have the taste for that, Trollope's not for you.
But he *is* for me and I found all the hours I spent with Lizzie and John and Lucy and the Fawns and enjoyable time and almost like a good gossip about folks we knew.
I will admit that I wanted a little more "justice" for Lizzie for her actions, she is such a snot. But I suppose being in Scotland (and later, I am sure, the outskirts of London society) and being married to someone not quite what she had set her eyes upon will be dire indeed in her eyes.