Vanity Fair (Abridged) Audiobook

" Hated all the characters in it, and especially the authorial voice. But couldn't stop reading it. I don't understand. "

" The similarities between this and Gone With The Wind, which I began noticing from the start of the novel, are striking. Not only did I read Gone With the Wind straight before this, but later found, after finishing Vanity Fair, that links between the two novels were first made back when Gone With The Wind was published - Quite a coincidence seeing as I had no idea when I first started reading Vanity Fair! "

" I had a college professor who loved Vanity Fair so much that he was reading just one page a night, of the novel, to get the full benefit of it. Imagine that?! I cannot. On the other hand, I pushed bravely through it barely understanding the full import of what was going on. It took the movie--with Reese Witherspoon (hey Reesie!)--to put me to rights on this. Someday I may actually read this book again and find that I am in accordance with my professor? ... (naw! lol.) "

" It's surprising how much this book must have set the trend for romantic comedy. Not that it didn't have obvious aspirations of social commentary, but its humor and characters are the real winners. The author reminds us often that it's a "book without a hero, although perhaps there is a heroine", yet the scoundrels in the story are gems. "

" Highly entertaining and humorous but superbly truthful read. This work presents human nature and society in all of its wicked complexity. Mr. Thackeray rambles on with his commentary at length, likely since authors in those days were paid by the word. Vanity Fair would have been a 5 star work of literature if 1/3 were edited. The characters and their deeds are richly portrayed, especially the anti-heroine Rebecca Sharp. This work is satire at its best and skewers everyone from the nobility to the servants without mercy. Even the more sympathetic characters such as William Dobbin are mocked by the narrator. "

" I loved the book! It was an amazing experience :) "

" A stupid story about a grasping, manipulative social climber who doesn't care who she hurts. "

" If I only had one book to read for the rest of my life, it would be this one "

" Amelia Sedley is the worst. William Thackeray is also the worst. This book is so annoying. "

" Loved this so much I read it twice, the second time just to enjoy all the footnotes. "

" This novel is sharp and hilarious. I love it! "

" I'm reading this before finishing Jane Eyre because Charlotte Bronte dedicated the 2nd edition of her book to Thackeray after reading Vanity Fair "

" Fabulous story of the ascent and maybe descent of Becky Sharp, written by the acid brother of Jane Austen. "

" Very good!!! Had to go out and watch the movie on Netflix. It was good too. "

" Thackeray has an accurate eye for the folly ("vanity") of human nature -- as perceptive as a Dickens, while only in his 30's. He understands the fickleness of the world's opinion and the double-mindedness of even the best humans. "

" I read it so I could feel smart and say I read it. turned out to be a pretty cool story. "

" In the beginning though.... I thought it was going to be boring and a waste of time but before I was through half of the novel, I was taken in to it. I must confess that this is one of the best books that I've read till now. "

" I tried to read this book twice. The second time I had less than 20 pages left and I was so bored I just didn't even try. I will never read this book again. "

" Great satire, and echoed multiple times in Gone with the Wind though MM claimed not to have read it. Amelia is utterly tedious and doesn't deserve Dobbin, but the ending still feels right for the characters and not pat. "

" i wish i've never read it, for i don't have much liking for sad stories... but still, there is much to learn from this story "