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Marjorie Hakala Gives You 7 Reasons to Read A Dance to the Music of Time →

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Reason #1: They are unique.

Reason #2: They’re playfully, livably literary

Reason #3: Do you like England? These books are completely, uniquely, and ineluctably English.

Reason #4: They are wonderfully funny.

Reason #5: There is a judicious amount of world history.

Reason #6: Widmerpool.

Reason #7: The books are both discreet and entertainingly frank.

These books will explain to you everything that ever happens to you in your life.  You should read the series once a decade as a sort of users guide to growing old.  I did it a decade ago with a group, reading a volume a month and we had a DTTMOT costume dinner at the end of the 12 month cycle.  My favorite literary memory of all time.

(I came as Trapnel)

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   I couldn’t care less how “ineluctably English” the series is or isn’t, I just know I spent all twelve

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   my favourite books, even if I sometimes get parts of it confused with parts of Brideshead Revisited. I read each book as...

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   will explain to you everything that ever happens to you in your life. You should read the series once

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