Brideshead Revisited

I'm not sure what the point of this book was. Nobody should have such wealth that they can futz around doing nothing and not going to class and dining and gossiping about nothing, and also it was quite obtuse. Like, for the first half the book I was just thinking, Charles and Sebastian should just hurry up and bang, and then they never* did even though they were together constantly and only wanted to be together in their apartment or whatever.

and when I say never did, I mean Waugh was never explicit about what their deal was, so it's possible I guess.And then it took a turn in the second half where Sebastian became a raging alcoholic and I was like WHEW thank goodness they never banged because this is a MESS.

But then suddenly Charles is married with two kids and he's never met one of them because he's very very busy painting in South America and his convenient wife is very busy throwing parties WHO IS WATCHING THESE CHILDREN, and they're both cheating on each other, but it's again, very obtuse. And he just CANNOT leave the people in Sebastian's family alone.

Anyway, I finished just in the nick of time for book club, and it'll make for a good discussion, based on the fact that a friend and I stood and talked about it in disbelief for a good 10 minutes the other day before either of us had finished.

CW: stillbirth (off-page, but mentioned several times)