Vanity Fair Part Four

Part Four will include Chapters LI (In Which a Charade is Acted Which May or May Not Puzzle The Reader) -- through the remainder of the book, LXVII (Which Contains Births, Marriages, and Deaths).

My, my, my. Such happenings and carryings on as we should ever see. Things coming together to the benefit of "some". Becky getting her comeuppance and then getting her life back to the order in which she enjoys. Amelia waking up to see the real order of the world, getting rid of her rose colored glasses, coming to her senses and doing what she most likely has wanted to do all along. Poor Jos; such an unknowingly sad life and such a sad demise. Do we dare to think he was poisoned? And William; William finally growing some big kahunas at last and standing up for himself.
Thackeray has written a very enjoyable tete-a tete here and I find I quite liked it. I think it could have been compiled into perhaps 480 pages instead of 680. I loved all the little sketches throughout the book.
I am very happy to have been a part of this group read as I was not familiar with Thackeray in the least. I still don't know that I am but I am interested enough to try something else of his. I do know that without the group read, I would never have picked up this particular book, so thank you all for having chosen it as one of this years reads.
belva

This re-reading of Vanity Fair has been very enjoyable for me. Poor old Jos Sedley, I hope he was not poisoned, but it is more than possible that he was. Amelia learns of George Osborne's true nature and the great debt she owes dear old Dobbin. At last. And Beccy, well she always seems to get what she wants in the end, by fair means or foul.

Thackery was part of this society but obviously from this book not blind to all its faults.