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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero (Modern Library Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9495571?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a>
  rating: 3 of 5 stars<br/>I enjoyed this book for a while, but eventually I got bored and didn't really care what happened to the characters. This made reading the book become a chore rather than a pleasure.  I detested Becky because of her constant deception and treachery.  I don't even understand what conceivably would have made her happy.  She kept trying to better her situation, but it must have been difficult to constantly repress her true personality to the end of manipulating other people.  As for Amelia, she was yet another example of a heroine of classic literature who is good because she is good.  UGH!  Yes, she was nice, polite, and had good morals.  She wasn't interesting, though!  Plus, she was really quite self-absorbed (or at least absorbed with George and Georgy) and I hated her indifference to Dobbin (for most of the book at least).  Dobbin was the only character I truly liked, though I was frustrated that he was so in love with Amelia when she didn't really exhibit any interesting qualities.  The other character I grew to like was Rawdon, who irritated me for the first part of the book, but then saw the error of his ways and became a decent person.  I loved his devotion to little Rawdon.  There were some interesting descriptions of other characters, but no one became so endeared to me that I really wanted to keep reading this book.  I'm not against verbage in general, but Thackeray just went on and on sometimes.  I think a book that long should really be able to hold one's attention, and this didn't do it for me.
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I enjoyed this book for a while, but eventually I got bored and didn't really care what happened to the characters. This made reading the book become a chore rather than a pleasure. I detested Becky because of her constant deception and treachery. I don't even understand what conceivably would have made her happy. She kept trying to better her situation, but it must have been difficult to constantly repress her true personality to the end of manipulating other people. As for Amelia, she was yet another example of a heroine of classic literature who is good because she is good. UGH! Yes, she was nice, polite, and had good morals. She wasn't interesting, though! Plus, she was really quite self-absorbed (or at least absorbed with George and Georgy) and I hated her indifference to Dobbin (for most of the book at least). Dobbin was the only character I truly liked, though I was frustrated that he was so in love with Amelia when she didn't really exhibit any interesting qualities. ...more

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