Title: Vastly over-rated
Product review: I am a huge Evelyn Waugh fan--A Handful of Dust, Put Out More Flags, and Brideshead Revisited are among my favorite novels of all time. But this book just doesn't work. It seems a mishmash of different parts and seems haphazardly, even lazily written. Waugh seems to get bored of his protagonist Guy Crouchbook toward the end and dumps him to follow other characters, characters recently introduced to us and who we don't particularly care about. Although the Crete scenes are nicely done, we just want to get them over with. This book isn't half as good as the first part of the trilogy and, I hate to say it, if it wasn't Waugh it would almost certainly not be in print today.
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