Vanity Fair anyone?

[oneofthegiantsisme]

I've been reading Vanity Fair on my Kindle, and am starting to struggle with it a bit. I'm about two-thirds of the way through, and finding it a bit tedious. Does it get better?

I've had to take a break (just re-read Narnia, as we watched Dawn Treader on DVD the other weekend), and have gone back to it, but am wondering whether to give up. I never give up on books, though (apart from Money by Martin Amis), so I guess I'll persevere (and never read it again).

It pisses me off. Emmy is a drip. Dobbin is a fool. Becky is vile.

I love it but I seem to remember it does pall a bit in the middle. Where Becky goes out to be with the army iirc. I did skim through a couple of those chapters. But I do really love the book overall. Love the modern-ness of the narrator's voice and the general sarkiness of everything so perhaps if that hasn't grabbed you by now, it's not going to because I don't think Vanity Fair is really about the story, it's about the voice.

I'm finding the voice a bit irritating - he's just too sarcastic sometimes. Austen does the social satire with more wit and less sarcasm.
Still, I thinks I'll have to finish it just to find out what happens in the end (I do hope Becky gets her come-uppance somehow!).

I love vanity fair. Never wanted Becky to get her comeuppance though - I was rooting for her!

I love Vanity Fair, it's my favourite 'classic'. I think if you're not enjoying it by this stage I'd leave it, as the style and don't change much.

I've finished it - hooray! Can't see me ever re-reading it, but that's one more classic to cross off the "must read one day" list.
Now I can read A Song for Arbonne, which I got for Christmas and have been promising myself once I got to the end of Vanity Fair!

I'm going to be reading this one soon - I do have the DVD with Reese Witherspoon, which hopefully will help?