Book # 67 - Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It seemed like it took me forever to get through Vanity Fair. I started out really enjoying it. The first third was funny and charming... and all of the plot lines were satisfactorily resolved in the last third... but the middle was a bit of a slog. Just a few too many characters.  Still overall I enjoyed it.

The story follows two friends, Rebecca Sharp and Amelia Sedley, as they leave school and begin to make their way into society. Rebecca doesn't have any family or money and isn't the most scrupulous person in getting ahead. Amelia however is the total opposite and is probably way too nice to everyone. Both find husbands and have a child but the circumstances of each are complete opposite. At the mid-point of the story we find one of them at the height of society and the other barely managing to survive... and of course by the end their roles are reversed. It was a nice read but could have just been a tad shorter. A-