I can't say that this is my favourite Dickens, and I found the first two hundred pages or so rocky going, with a few misunderstandings on my part that served to baffle rather than inform. But as the novel started to come together, and the disparate characters started to interact more strongly, I end...
"The few words that I have to add to what I have written, are soon penned; then I, and the unknown friend to whom I write, will part for ever. Not without much dear remembrance on my side. Not without some, I hope, on his or hers." p.985This is Dickens in 1853 writing to his reader through Esther...
Between Thanksgiving and Christmas my reading pace ground to a halt. Thanks a lot Dick...........ens!This is a long book, but I've read longer ones that didn't seem half as long as Bleak House. Saharan-esque stretches of plodding plot didn't help. But more than that, this book suffers from having to...
This is only the second Dickens novel I've ever read and it was probably not the best novel to read around Christmas time. The story is bleak and gloomy. It's set in foggy, dirty Victorian London, there is a lot of mention of dirt, squalor, disease, death and poverty. Some parts were really quite de...
Yikes, this was a long slog. I got off to a bad start, probably because I was distracted by too many other things. But, Dickens is truly excellent, and this book was good. Not my favorite so far, but still good. I picked it because I read that "experts" considered this to be Dickens' finest. It wasn...
Reread failed. *hangs head in shame*I remember really liking this as a kid. I had a Charles Dickens phase, courtesy of [b:Matilda|39988|Matilda|Roald Dahl|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1266457161s/39988.jpg|1015554]'s influence. Granted, I only read the abridges versions, but I do reme...
Not much happens in terms of plot in Bleak House. But I found it sticking with me after I'd finished it. Here are some examples:- My girlfriend recently explained that since we hadn't gone out to dinner at this one expensive place, we could totally buy this other not-too-expensive thing, and I thoug...
Had to read this for my English Novel class, and it was absolutely excellent. This is the type of writing I like--detailed and descriptive, allowing the reader to see the images and scenes the author creates in their mind's eye. Absolutely beautiful and brillant!
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