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Apr. 20th, 2008 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsJust finished Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers for class. Enjoyed it mostly, though he has not displaced any of my favorite Victorian novelists in my heart; I do not agree with most of Trollope's worldviews (shockingly, as he is at heart a relatively staid Victorian gentleman) but he is very funny about getting them across. Plot mostly consists of:
1. Clerics bicker about promotions
2. Everyone bitches about That One Really Annoying Cleric
3. Everyone wants to marry the sensible, pretty, and rich widow, aka The Heroine
4. Everyone falls madly in love with the beautiful crippled separated-from-her-abusive-husband-single-mother witty-letter-writing pseudo-Italian seductress who makes her family carry her around everywhere on a sofa, aka The Other Woman, aka Best Character Ever
5. Mix; repeat until appropriate people are married, appropriate people are promoted, and That One Really Annoying Cleric is kicked out of town.
1. Clerics bicker about promotions
2. Everyone bitches about That One Really Annoying Cleric
3. Everyone wants to marry the sensible, pretty, and rich widow, aka The Heroine
4. Everyone falls madly in love with the beautiful crippled separated-from-her-abusive-husband-single-mother witty-letter-writing pseudo-Italian seductress who makes her family carry her around everywhere on a sofa, aka The Other Woman, aka Best Character Ever
5. Mix; repeat until appropriate people are married, appropriate people are promoted, and That One Really Annoying Cleric is kicked out of town.
