"Vanity Fair" is even worse than I remember.

[Moondog]

I was forced, against my will, to read that overwrought but, admittedly, well-written soap opera in tenth or eleventh grade. What misery. The experience put me off of English literature for, well, decades.

Anyway, apparently it was made into a film several years ago. For some unknown reason Showtime has elected to run it and, while I wasn't paying attention, started showing it after whatever I had on as background noise earlier.

It is actually worse than I remember. And I did not think that was possible. My God, what a stinker. The suckitude defies description. Switched to "Goldeneye", with commercials no less, just to flush the utter hideousness from my consciousness.

That is all. Carry on.

[bigwillq]

1. They made you read a magazine in high school?

[Moondog]

2. Heh. Well played. But, if you insist . . . .

Sigh. No, not that one. The book.

[Flaxbee]

3. isn't Reese Witherspoon in it? That version?

Yeah, it was really just not good...
I never was forced to read the book.

[Moondog]

4. Yes, I believe so.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

5. I thought it was a lot better than Great Expectations and Silas Marner.

I got NOTHING out of those in high school English.