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altariel ([personal profile] altariel) wrote2008-07-28 09:07 am
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Vanity Fair

Thank you everyone who recommended Vanity Fair on my Big Read Poll: I finished it this morning over breakfast and thought it was an absolute hoot. You are all very wise, o my flisters.
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[personal profile] uitlander 2008-07-29 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Hurrah! Another convert to the wonderful world of Becky Sharp.

[identity profile] altariel.livejournal.com 2008-07-29 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you for successful arguments in favour of reading it!

(BTW, in the interval of the Who Prom on Radio 3, Justina Robson did a piece about what Who meant to her. You can hear it on listen again tucked on the end of the first half, and then picked up again at the start of the second half - they miss a couple of minutes that way, annoyingly, but the bulk of her broadcast is there. Thought you might enjoy it, and might have missed it, given you were at the actual event.)
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[personal profile] uitlander 2008-07-29 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I listened to it yesterday. It was a tad at odds with the mood of the prom, although I was particularly taken with the description of Colin Baker's doctor as "Basil Fotherington-Thomas channelling Margaret Thatcher whilst wearing Coco the clown's outfit".