I had never read Vanity Fair before—not all the way through, anyway. It's part of a project I'm undertaking to read books I was assigned in school and never finished (about which more later). I liked it o.k. "How to Live Well on Nothing a Year" is pretty fabulous. 

Haven't seen the new movie version. I just figured it would flat-out suck. I can't see Reese Witherspoon playing English.