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lavendersparkleLast week I read Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe. It was like every other Tom Sharpe book, insubstantial and amusing, the perfect thing if you just want some light hearted distraction. The only slightly irritating thing about his books is that they are rather of their time and so have slightly reactionary feel to them*. This isn't too bad as most of the humour is pure farce rather than satire and people getting eaten by lions or complex secret plots going terribly wrong are always funny.
Now I am reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I'm enjoying this and it's making me look forward to going back to being a student at Cambridge. The book isn't so much a page turner, but instead one simply enjoys reading each page. It's like laying lazily on a sunny afternoon when one simply enjoys this moment in the knowledge that the next will be as good as was the last.
I seem to have picked up an accent from the book.
*It's not so much that I would be appalled by reactionary sentiments in 1970s comedy as it is of its time. One may as well by appalled that Shakespeare was anti-semitic. It's more that frequently if the comedy is based upon this social attitudes it is no longer funny to a modern reader/viewer because 'she's a woman and she wants a well paid job!!!' no longer seems ridiculously funny. I often feel this when I watch situational comedies that my father likes because 'they don't have all this bad language of modern shows'. He thinks that a show is instantly not funny if anyone says 'fuck' during it.
Now I am reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. I'm enjoying this and it's making me look forward to going back to being a student at Cambridge. The book isn't so much a page turner, but instead one simply enjoys reading each page. It's like laying lazily on a sunny afternoon when one simply enjoys this moment in the knowledge that the next will be as good as was the last.
I seem to have picked up an accent from the book.
*It's not so much that I would be appalled by reactionary sentiments in 1970s comedy as it is of its time. One may as well by appalled that Shakespeare was anti-semitic. It's more that frequently if the comedy is based upon this social attitudes it is no longer funny to a modern reader/viewer because 'she's a woman and she wants a well paid job!!!' no longer seems ridiculously funny. I often feel this when I watch situational comedies that my father likes because 'they don't have all this bad language of modern shows'. He thinks that a show is instantly not funny if anyone says 'fuck' during it.