Vanity Fair

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  I love his sarcasm. Books laughing at human nature never become dated.

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  oriole said on Dec 4, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  Vanitas vanitatum

  This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
  It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far ... (continue)

  This book is completly intemporal. Hooking, beautifully written and full of incidents. When I was in the middle, I thought "What else could happen now?". The characters are great and unforgettable, especially Becky, so "Sharp".
  It makes you think on your own world, and you'll find it is not so far from the one described on the book. We are all built upon appearance!

  I have enjoyed every page of it, and it has got 816. That's so much!

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  Ena said on Mar 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
  Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
  Whoev ... (continue)

  For 700 pages W. Makepeace Thakaray stays witty and funny. I really enjoyed reading this book, which proves that nothing is what i seems, but tat is all that counts (not only back then during the Napoleonic Wars, but still nowadays.)
  Becky is such a egotist, but lovely character....
  Whoever enjoyed reading "War and peace" will like this one. Whoever enjoyed reading Anna Karenina, Gone with the wind etc. will like it too...

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  Kunstseidenesmaedchen said on Oct 7, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

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  You cannot NOT be mesmerized by Becky.

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  Linda said on Feb 27, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

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  Can't take Tolstoy's "War & Peace" off of my head. And I miss him.
  I find the narrator's intrusiveness in "Vanity Fair" discouraging.

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  lilacwine said on Jan 10, 2011 | Add your feedback

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  Romantic Comedy for the Exceedingly Patient

  Ok, I’m just going to say it: I am feeling extremely smug right now that I just finished a “period” book of almost 1,000 pages entirely of my own volition. This is no light read and for me, reading it just for the sake of reading it was the literary equivalent to running a marathon in high heels. ... (continue)

  Ok, I’m just going to say it: I am feeling extremely smug right now that I just finished a “period” book of almost 1,000 pages entirely of my own volition. This is no light read and for me, reading it just for the sake of reading it was the literary equivalent to running a marathon in high heels.
  Now, as for my sentiments towards the book, to be perfectly honest, I was quite under whelmed. I suppose one could argue that Vanity Fair serves as a predecessor to the modern day satire and romantic fluff that keep Katherine Heigl and Jennifer Aniston in a job, but I really don’t understand why it is held with such high esteem in comparison to the classics of Thackery’s contemporaries. Here we have the exhausted storyline of two people from opposite sides of the tracks leading parallel lives whilst facing the trials and toils symptomatic of their social pedigrees. There’s Amelia, the aristocratic debutante with a disposition so saccharin sweet it sometimes made me want to drop kick a nun, and Rebecca, a soul-less viper that is motivated by nothing but self interest. The setting is early 19th century England and the story is really a glorified essay of the authors reflections on human stupidity, simplicity, and superficiality. Unlike Dickens, where every character no matter how insignificant will eventually reappear to play and integral part in the plot, the characters in Thackery’s Vanity Fair took on the feel of marionettes performing in a silly but ostentatious puppet show. Perhaps that was the point, but honestly for 900+ pages, it got to be VERY tedious.
  Like I said, I am proud of myself for sticking to it, but I will recommend only to those who possess an endless supply of patience for romantic comedy made over in mercury based powder.

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  ReadingQueen 12/17 said on Dec 2, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 814 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0140430350
• ISBN-13: 9780140430356
• Publisher: Penguin
• Pub date: Feb 28, 1968
• Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
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