Current mood:	crappy
Entry tags:	evelyn waugh, vile bodies

Vile Bodies: Fourth Post (Final Thoughts)
This book ended quite oddly, and yet it stayed forever true to the title. It was interesting that we met Chastity again at the end. I still don't understand Adam and Nina. He sold her for 78 pounds and change, and she took him as her new husband (even though she was really married to someone else) to spend Christmas with her father. And the book then sends Adam off to war (it really does feel like World War II even though it was entirely Waugh anticipating a war that wouldn't begin for another several years) and brings Ginger (Nina's husband) back to be at home with his wife. Waugh seems to have a predilection for making characters who are completely un-soldier-like in every way, yet become soldiers (for reasons that are never explained) as soon as war breaks out!

The line about having babies in wartime being patriotic was funny and astute.