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Vanity Fair Anonymous 2016-07-01 23:24:26 Post No. 8230645 [Report]
About half through this and I don't really get it. Thackery has wit enough, but the prose falls too flat to deliver it. Melville proved that clause-dense English could jive; Joyce (in the Bloom chapters) that choppy could fly like a kite; Dickens is ample proof that satire of the era still plays. But Thackery just isn't registering with me. Does it get better? (recent chapters have improved some - married couples about to go to Belgium) Am I just retarded? (dime for every post says this)

Plot-wise seems like what would've happened if Gogol wrote War and Peace - but I'm not sure I can dig that either. Is there anything profound or deep in pure cynicism? The gestural (because unfinished) religious epiphany in Dead Souls struck me as far from a mistake and rather central to the book as art.

Vanity Fair general.
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:51:35 Post No.8231181
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:51:35 Post No.8231181 [Report]
I'd self bump but apparently the self is a spook... So... Something bumps, anyway.
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:54:02 Post No.8231188
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:54:02 Post No.8231188 [Report]
>prose
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:58:09 Post No.8231207
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 02:58:09 Post No.8231207 [Report]
>>8230645

Recently read this, thought it was excellent.
You might just be retarded.
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 03:48:50 Post No.8231342
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 03:48:50 Post No.8231342 [Report]
>>8231207
Anything in particular strike you as excellent or you just think that because the wiki said it was?
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 03:53:57 Post No.8231353
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Anonymous 2016-07-02 03:53:57 Post No.8231353 [Report]
>>8231188
Thanks for your contribution. Good to see such vibrancy on what people mistakenly see as a wasteland for wannabe pseudo-intellectuals like Holden Caufield.
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