Here we go again,
another Great American Novel that I struggled to wade through. It was just a
slog. Augie, the 'born recruit' went from one job to another, never seemed to
come alive to me as a character, and I just didn't care what happened to him.
I'm obviously a philistine.
Fox surprised me - I
know very little about him beyond the high regard he has among some politicians
and historians. Reading his life, and his apparent dislike of active politics,
I couldn't understand what it was that inspired such reverence. Was it just
that in an era of conformity, he dared to be different by supporting the
American and then the French Revolution? Neither seems to have cost him much as
he relaxed in Chertsey, and nothing he did gave active support to either
revolution from what I could glean.
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