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A review by nosey667
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
3.5
this took me a little over a month to read (during the second half i had a long long break) and i think overall, i am glad i read it and jt was worth my time, but its not a classic i would particularly recommend, definitely not to the less experienced classic reader anyway.
i found some characters endearing; Becky, Amelia, and Rawdon were my favourites. i found Amelia's storyline being my favourite, and was gripped by Becky's selfish nature (but also her selfishness being necessary to gain respect). Rawdon i didn't really notice until the second half, but i found him interesting, especially duieng thesequence between him and Becky fighting. .
my main issues were, i found there were way too many characters to keep track of, none of them particularly unteresting enough for me to remember without googling, which made the experience much more long winded and uningeresting. secondly, i felt sometimes the ordering a bit off. a crazy event would happen to a character, and then the next 10 or so chapters would center around someone else (who has nothing much going on) when all i want to read about is the other character. the first half of the book also presented women in a way i didnt particularly enjoy. it wasnt so much their character, but that often they'd have stuff going on and the reader would learn about it through the male character's conversation. i think they could've had a much more present voice in the first half. this did improve later though.
i found some characters endearing; Becky, Amelia, and Rawdon were my favourites. i found Amelia's storyline being my favourite, and was gripped by Becky's selfish nature (but also her selfishness being necessary to gain respect). Rawdon i didn't really notice until the second half, but i found him interesting, especially duieng the
my main issues were, i found there were way too many characters to keep track of, none of them particularly unteresting enough for me to remember without googling, which made the experience much more long winded and uningeresting. secondly, i felt sometimes the ordering a bit off. a crazy event would happen to a character, and then the next 10 or so chapters would center around someone else (who has nothing much going on) when all i want to read about is the other character. the first half of the book also presented women in a way i didnt particularly enjoy. it wasnt so much their character, but that often they'd have stuff going on and the reader would learn about it through the male character's conversation. i think they could've had a much more present voice in the first half. this did improve later though.