Introduction | Palliser Week 

I do think the middle third of Phineas Redux is fantastic - but I guess I just don't love Phineas that much as a character, and didn't want another book about him! I feel like Phineas Redux undid/spoiled Phineas Finn, if that makes sense? And then the ending frustrated me a little.

That's so great - I hope you like the rest!

Trollope is amazing :)

I would definitely recommend reading Doctor Thorne before the Prime Minister :)

Thanks :) The politics isn't my favourite thing about the series, but some of the characters are amazing.

I highly recommend that :)

Thanks!

Thanks so much! He's an amazing writer.

So glad you're enjoying it :)

Thanks!

That would be AMAZING

I hope you like the series! I can't imagine how it must have been to read The Duke's Children last - you are really going to see some of the characters become themselves over the previous books!

Ooo I hope you like The Small House at Allington - that's my favourite :)

Thanks so much :) These videos are all super spoiler-free though, so you can definitely watch them all without having read the books!

They're such a great series :) I do think it's worth considering the spoilers - there are just so many little connections between his works!

I think when you've read both series enough times, it just feels like visiting friends when the people from Barsetshire show up in the Palliser series. :) I read Barchester Towers first, then most of the Palliser series with Framley Parsonage thrown in, and I think The Warden. That was back in the late 1970's and early 1980's. When I finally read The Small House at Allington and Plantagenet Palliser showed up as a minor comic character, I wondered how Trollope got from that to Can You Forgive Her. He does take minor characters and make them major characters in other novels, but Palliser is remarkable. Trollope considered him to be what he'd be remembered for, felt he lived and breathed. He also named Josiah Crawley as his other best character.

He's such a fascinating characters. I love the Palliser series, though the Barsetshire Chronicles are still my favourites :)

Oh, sorry, I didn't realise. I've heard other people pronounce it like I do. I'm afraid my video on Phineas Redux is already filmed so it'll be wrong there too.

I expect reading Phineas Redux first would make you like it more - one of the reasons why I don't love it is that it kind of invalidates the ending/point of Phineas Finn, if you see what I mean? I loved the Duke's Children, but I do agree - it doesn't bring everything together in way the Last Chronicle does.

The rest of the series is a bit more dramatic and engaging - so I recommend reading on. For quite a lot of people The Warden is their least favourite in the series.

@@katiejlumsden yeah i'm for sure gonna read on :) i might keep going this month with barchester towers if i have time!! although i want to get to my reread of jane eyre next!

I would recommend trying! I had no confidence when I started!

I don't really follow the Booker Prize.

He's amazing!

No, I'm still only a fifth of the way through Deerbrook. I'm really enjoying it - reading it on kindle, which sounds better than your edition! It's not a short book, that sounds mad!

Before The Prime Minister, or before the whole series. It's amazing!

@@katiejlumsden, thank you! :o)

I don't think that matters! It's mostly still okay to follow.