I wasn't even sure what star-rating to give to this book, because it basically just hit a middling ground for me. There were parts of the book I really liked, and those related directly to the things that Dickens would have written about, the underbelly of London, Dodger himself, the character of Lo...
Sir Terry's in fine form with "Dodger", a YA historical that brings forward a cast of characters including Charles Dickens, Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria, Robert Peel and more from early Victorian London. Dodger himself incorporates some of the characteristics of the Dickens' character from Oliv...
1.5 stars.So it wasn't horrid. But I didn't really care for it either.First off, this must be said, it didn't feel like a [a:Terry Pratchett|1654|Terry Pratchett|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1235562205p2/1654.jpg] book. At all. No zany magic that makes no sense (which was fine). None of his trade...
"Dodger" is something of a departure for Terry Pratchett. This is not his typical, pun-laden Discworld novel. Instead, it's a different look at a classic Dickens character.Pratchett brings in historical figures like Angela Burdett-Coutts, Henry Mayhew, Sir Robert Peel and, yes, Charles Dickens him...
This story follows a boy named Dodger who survives in London as a tosher, searching for lost valuables or coinage in the depths of the sewers. On a dark, rainy night, he happenstances upon two men beating a girl with beautiful blonde hair and he rescues her. Dodger then bulls through the rest of the...
Whenever I know a person for a specific series, there's always a bit of apprehension about reading a book of theirs that's not part of that series. Not sure what it is, but it's what made me wait a while after being loaned Dodger before beginning to read it. I'm glad I finally bit the bullet and sta...
I love clever stories about clever young people forming convoluted plots and tricking people. When an author manages to give me that, Charles Dickens as a newspaperman, Sweeney Todd, the drains of London, Jews escaped from the pogroms of Russia (including Karl), a noisome dog named Onan, and more, w...
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