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I hadn't read a lot of Dickens before this. A Christmas Carol is a sentimental favorite, but A Tale of Two Cities bored me to tears the couple of times I tried. I remember liking Hard Times when I read it for college, but I can't remember a thing about that book. I can't imagine the details of Great...
Will have to read this one outside the confounds of a 10th grade humanities course I very much did not enjoy...
2/3/2013: One of the more accessible Dickens works. I thought "Bleak House", while a good story, was muddled as I was not familiar with the historical legal issues Dickens was illuminating. This is a straight forward narrative where knowledge of Newgate Prison and the colonization of Australia wi...
I first read this in high school and I remember thinking that the story was good but the experience of reading this book was awful. Wanted to see how I felt about two English degrees later. I stand by my original review. It's an interesting tale and I caught a lot more of the humor this time aroun...
So it took me like a month to read this book and now it's taken me like a month to get around to reviewing it. Basically, it's a lot to digest ... and I'm trying to figure out a way to review this properly. But ... GAH IT'S SO MUCH.This was my first time reading Dickens. It took me 20 years of my li...
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