I liked the PBS version of TWWLN as well, and so I started the audiobook of The Warden, and my GOD IT'S AWFUL. I only got a bit of the way into it--I was waiting for it to get interesting, or somthing, and then I took a peek at a summary of it, which confirmed my sinking feeling. It seems like a duller, more pious, freak-free Dickens (and I only like a bit of Dickens).
I felt bad about not liking it, because my Dad, of whom I'm quite fond, absolutely adores the whole Barsetshire series. But then I considered that Dad is a scholar of church history, as well as a very devout Catholic, which means that he probably likes Trollope for exactly the reasons I don't, alas.
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Date: 2010-03-16 06:17 pm (UTC)I liked the PBS version of TWWLN as well, and so I started the audiobook of The Warden, and my GOD IT'S AWFUL. I only got a bit of the way into it--I was waiting for it to get interesting, or somthing, and then I took a peek at a summary of it, which confirmed my sinking feeling. It seems like a duller, more pious, freak-free Dickens (and I only like a bit of Dickens).
I felt bad about not liking it, because my Dad, of whom I'm quite fond, absolutely adores the whole Barsetshire series. But then I considered that Dad is a scholar of church history, as well as a very devout Catholic, which means that he probably likes Trollope for exactly the reasons I don't, alas.