I just saw the PBS mini-series (thanks Monica!)and it made me want to revisit this book (maybe I ought to add a "currently re-reading shelf?"). I forgot what an eccentric cast of character this is. - not just the supporting cast (Conversation Kenge, Mrs. Flite, etc), but even main characters like Es...
This should have been Dickens' best book. Wonderful, blackly humorous damnation of the legal system, and a great story, but for me the characters were more cardboard and unable to change than is usual in Dickens' stories. Almost four stars for me, but not quite.
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