April 8, 2008
Reading
I just finished Thomas Hardy’s A Laodicean a couple of days ago. It’s supposedly one of Hardy’s minor novels, but I quite enjoyed it. And it features three despicable characters–one of whom is truly villainous (no mustache-twirling, though, a real villain); the others have redeeming characteristics overwhelmed by their selfishness. I recommend it. Now I’ve moved on to Evelyn Waugh’s Decline and Fall, which is laugh-aloud funny, set at an English boarding school in the ’20s, and Peter Ackroyd’s The Lambs of London.
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Decline and Fall is so wicked. I love it.