Vile Bodies (Hardcover)

from freelancer_frank

This is a book about class and frivolity. It is a satire on each that cannot quite hide its deep love for both. It has the sun-dappled loveliness of Wodehouse mixed in with the scabrous and forensic insights of Jonathan Swift. The ending undercuts what went before to just the right degree. I felt...

from Smiler69

Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Russian parties, Circus parties, parties where one had to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St John's wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and night clubs, in windmills...

from Schmerguls

470. Vile Bodies, by Evelyn Waugh (read 6 Jan 1955) I read this book in 1955 and my comment thereon on Jan 6, 1955 I set out herewith: Some parts were so funny I nearly died laughing. and they made up for the dull parts. I thought Col. Blount, Nina's father, uproarious. He had bought a movie and ...

from AnnieMod

I like the period between the two great wars. Or I should probably say that I like he literature produced in that period. Waugh is one of those authors that manages to write something that gets lauded as comedy while presenting an almost complete picture of the world of that time. I cannot read h...

from mlbelize

This book really snuck up on me. For the first 100 pages I kept thinking it was a cute little book but only worth 3*. The more I read though the more I enjoyed it and appreciated its wit and charm. Still it was only a 3.5* read. I finished and thought about it for awhile when like a thunderbolt t...