Ashley's review
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
This was a good read. However, I was not as thrilled with it as I expected to be. Waugh is more known as a satirical writer and this novel is one of his more serious works and is mainly a religious novel, Waugh being a devoted Catholic. I was disappointed with the character development, especially with the protagonist and narrator. I felt I knew very little about him as a person at the end. It might have been more powerfully rent in third-person. The dialogues, in many cases, turned into monologues and did not resemble what a conversation might actually sound like. The ending was disappointingly anti-climatic and so many little things happened over the coarse of the novel rather than a few larger themes that I found it difficult to "feel" anything for any of the characters. Still, I recognize it as a decent work by a great novelist.
