#23: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
There is a reason this novel is a classic; I read it to gear up for the movie that premiers on August 1 (limited), and though I loved the book and will probably love the movie, I’m not quite sure how much they have in common except for characters and various isolated events, but that doesn’t much matter—Brideshead Revisited is an excellent example of the keen eye Waugh applied to his contemporaries, the kind of character-building that only a master can manage so deftly, and the sort of big-picture thinking that I wish I was capable of as a human, much less a writer.
