The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell is the seventh volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, which is on several important sites: The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, on The Greatest Books of All Time – albeit here it has fallen from 339th to 341st – and more importantly for this corner of the internet, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where you meet my macaws

 

The Valley of Bones by Anthony Powell is the seventh volume of the chef d’oeuvre A Dance To The Music of Time, which is on several important sites: The Modern Library’s Top 100 Novels, 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, on The Greatest Books of All Time – albeit here it has fallen from 339th to 341st – and more importantly for this corner of the internet, it is one of my Top 50 Favorites – you have thousands of reviews of magnum opera from the aforementioned and other web pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel where you meet my macaws

 

10 out of 10

 

I have read The Valley of Bones https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-valley-of-bones-by-anthony-powell.html and enjoyed the first time, and now for the second, I am thinking that there may be a third, Insha’Allah, if The Valley of Bones does not extend to this place, in that this war gets to our realm and then we have Armageddon

 

Nick Jenkins is in the army now, at the end of The Kindly Ones, he visits Lady Moly, whose brother-in-law helps the hero, where Kenneth Widmerpool had failed, indeed, the latter proves to be a complex character, but notwithstanding that, he is as obnoxious as possible, instead of offering support, he wants favors

Gwatkin is one of the more than three hundred personages that populate the phenomenal A Dance to The Music of Time, and he is prominent in this volume, he likes to command, but he falls in love with a local woman, and then loses his concentration, to the point where he is removed, I am reminded of another masterpiece

 

Catch 22 https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/04/catch-22-by-joseph-heller.html by Joseph Heller is one of the top 5 on The Modern Library’s Top 100, and indeed what a superb work of art it is, the madness described with fantastic humor resembles some of what we find in The Valley of Bones to some extent

Kenneth Widmerpool casts his grotesque, malicious shadow again – I think I remember from years back that he will be responsible for the death of an important character, Charles Stringham, and I can put this here without a spoiler alert because it is just a speculation, if could well be my fantasy – and there are throwbacks

 

This pompous Trump avant la lettre has had sugar poured over his head, and in some instances, he is humiliated again, though he is so full of himself – in jest, he says he is the one able to get the commanding general’s position, but albeit he pretends he is joking, he means it – that he reminds me of Orange Caligula

There has been another attempt on the life of this pathetic fool https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/fear-trump-in-white-house-by-bob.html over the past weekend, at least we can presume he was the target, at that Correspondents’’ Diner, where an engineer opened fire

 

People keep saying – to use one of his often-repeated expressions, called echolalia – that ‘oh, no, violence is not the solution’ and ok, that is correct, but I am thinking Bentham, utilitarian philosophy https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/discovering-philosopher-in-you-big.html and the notion that it may be better to see him gone

 

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