tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1108907191217403356..comments2024-03-29T03:04:00.853-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: He was astonished to find how sweet a thing was poetry - Trollope characters readAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7765925234983615752015-04-17T11:43:11.359-05:002015-04-17T11:43:11.359-05:00Great fun. Depending on one's taste for marri...Great fun. Depending on one's taste for marriage proposal scenes, also perhaps tedious. But often quite funny. Sometimes savagely funny. I do not think I saw him taking after novelists or poets before.<br /><br />There is also a good jokey attack on the very magazine in which the novel was appearing as a serial. I love that, although Gaskell had done it in <i>Cranford</i> 20 years earlier.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-18431739011118579512015-04-17T10:55:38.594-05:002015-04-17T10:55:38.594-05:00Is anyone better at making fun of novels and reade...Is anyone better at making fun of novels and readers than novelists? I think not.LMRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08538873868140070018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-69074706470661656132015-04-17T09:55:06.647-05:002015-04-17T09:55:06.647-05:00Oh, gosh, I really should read some Trollope this ...Oh, gosh, I really should read some Trollope this summer. The selections you quoted had me laughing. He really is a lot of fun.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26146966141795881582015-04-16T23:06:47.879-05:002015-04-16T23:06:47.879-05:00Pinocchio did have a superb snail.
This Trollope ...<i>Pinocchio</i> did have a superb snail.<br /><br />This Trollope novel is <i>almost</i> the one for people not that interested in Trollope novels. Of course for 500 or 600 of its pages it is definitely a Trollope novel. But the chaos-spreading, gleefully lying protagonist give the book a different tone. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-91710138358573388182015-04-16T22:54:15.553-05:002015-04-16T22:54:15.553-05:00Is it my imagination or are you running into a lot...Is it my imagination or are you running into a lot of anti-snails literature this year? Whatever, I foresee the logical sequel to mummified cats week this year at last even if nobody else does.. And as a type, the "false heroine" sounds like my kind of woman whatever her other pros and cons!Richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01746599416342846897noreply@blogger.com