Shamela

Truth be told, not many comments come to mind when thinking about this novel. I found it repetitious in the sense that it was making a mockery of another novel, and I guess that it made it somewhat of a bore for me. The storylines were so similar that really, there was not a lot of diversity between the novel and that which it parodies. The only thing that gave it a little something, was the fact that it was a parody, and the odd little mockery of Pamela provided some amusement.  I read somewhere that this novel was written mere months after Pamela. After reading this, a “lightbulb moment” occurred. He obviously wrote this quickly if it had only been months, which explains why he was able to parody all of the details in Pamela. The details would have been fresh in his memory, and most of the mockeries would likely have been first reactions to the novel.I think books should be a form of entertainment, and this novel provided very little of that for me personally, so I did not find it a success in that department, but on the subject of parody, it was fairly successful.

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