A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
Steven,
ReplyDeleteI haven't read it and really had no intention of reading it, but now my curiosity is aroused.
I do remember reading one of the "Penrod" books many years ago when I was a child. I think it was called _Penrod and Sam_, but I wouldn't swear to it. I guess I was too young to pick up on the racism at that time, or it was so long ago that I forgot it.
That's quite a challenge that he has embarked upon. Perhaps if I ever find that my TBR bookcase has an empty shelf or two, I might consider it. One question would be, should I read all of them, or just the ones that I havn't read yet?