[tv] Parade's End

Somewhat belatedly, I have finished watching the BBC adaptation of Parade's End. I pretty much only did because Benedict Cumberbatch was in it, but found that I did enjoy it after all.

I had to read 3/4 of it as part of the Literature of the Great War course I did in my honours year of undergrad. We were explicitly forbidden to read the last book; it was meant to be a trilogy and Ford only wrote the last installment because of public pressure to tie up everything neatly.

I can't, however, remember a thing about the books - they came up towards the end of the year, when I was concentrating on writing on the Anglo-Saxon book of Judith and linguistics essays that would get me into grad school at U of T. I thought I remembered that the poisonous society wife was in Aldington's Death of a Hero, and I remembered the thing about the sonnets being from Robert Graves. Actually, I'd put money on there being something similar with sonnets in Goodbye to All That, because I was still paying attention when we did the Graves and I did like it.

I'm almost tempted to re-read the books now, but I see that at some point I did sell the single-volume edition that I had. Doh!