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Snobs
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Reads like an essay or etiquette book about the upper classes, disguised as a novel. Self consciously clever and witty insights, but very unoriginal plot. First person narrator knows more of Edith's inner thoughts than makes sense. Only "enlivened" by an implausible ending.
It's a shame, because he's much better as a screenwriter: Gosford Park was wonderful, and the first series of Downton Abbey was excellent (subsequent series bordered on parody, but by then it was an international brand, so the market requirements were different). Maybe he appeals more to non-Brits, as a describer of the alien and exotic, than to Brits who think (often erroneously) that they're more familiar with his subjects?
It's a shame, because he's much better as a screenwriter: Gosford Park was wonderful, and the first series of Downton Abbey was excellent (subsequent series bordered on parody, but by then it was an international brand, so the market requirements were different). Maybe he appeals more to non-Brits, as a describer of the alien and exotic, than to Brits who think (often erroneously) that they're more familiar with his subjects?
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
May 30, 2008
– Shelved
June 9, 2008
– Shelved as:
overrated
May 15, 2013
– Shelved as:
miscellaneous-fiction
April 30, 2023
– Shelved as:
class-etiquette
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Petra It's a year now, still in a dark place
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May 18, 2020 05:41AM
It would probably be good fun to sit with someone from the upperclasses and view Downton Abbey and see it through their eyes.
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Petra-X wrote: "It would probably be good fun to sit with someone from the upperclasses and view Downton Abbey and see it through their eyes."I'm sure. Although I enjoyed the first series, the only reason I watched it all the way through (albeit half-reading the newspaper at the same time), was so I could discuss/mock it with my mother. She loves it, and although she's not an aristo, she was on the periphery in her youth.
