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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 188878, member: 55&quot;]I got a partial set of the Waverly Novels years ago - different edition - and as was my habit, tried reading them.&nbsp;&nbsp; While I enjoyed his more famous works, I found many of the less-well-known to be among the most boring things I have ever read.</p><p>My gosh, he could spend page after page just describing the shoes worn by a minor character.&nbsp; &nbsp; Writing styles have certainly changed since these were penned.</p><p>To quote at random:&nbsp; as a character in &quot;Heart of Midlothian&quot; rearranges her clothing:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;She soon perceived reason, however, to regret that she had set about this task, however decent and necessary, in the present time and society. Madge Wildfire, who, among other indications of insanity, had a most overweening opinion of those charms, to which, in fact, she had owed her misery, and whose mind, like a raft upon a lake, was agitated and driven about at random by each fresh impulse, no sooner beheld Jeanie begin to arrange her hair, place her bonnet in order, rub the dust from her shoes and clothes, adjust her neck-handkerchief and mittans, and so forth, than with imitative zeal she began to bedizen and trick herself out with shreds and remnants of beggarly finery, which she took out of a little bundle, and which, when disposed around her person, made her appearance ten times more fantastic and apish than it had been before.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>All that, in just two sentences......[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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