Thought Train to Pusan

I was inspired to read this book after a stellar review during last year’s Cannonball read, and have finally been able to finish it! And I must say, I wasn’t disappointed, as all the characters are rich and interesting, as is the weaving in and out of the relationships between both people and their sense of religion. Brideshead Revisited itself begins with protagonist Charles Ryder, an English army officer in the 1940s, coming upon the old Marchmain estate of Brideshead, where his dear friend, Sebastian, used to live. The rest of the story then deals with Charles remembering his past, and all the events that occurred in his life that has some relation to the family at Brideshead. We first see Charles as a young college student, who is at a little bit of a loss as to where his life as headed, only to meet a young man named Sebastian Flyte, the youngest son of the aristocratic Lord Marchmain. Charles and Sebastian become fast and close friends, which results in Charles going to...