Bleak House the novel is – as you would expect – pretty bleak, but Bleak House the eponymous house in the book is one of the happier places to be found therein. In any case this being a Dickens novel you should not expect a wall to wall bleak fest. You would need to pop over to Hardyverse (also call...
Kindred's Reading Challenge: #5 A novel from the 1800s
bookshelves: published-1853 Read in January, 2007 Oh this was good - internal combustion, the token child's deathbed scene, scatty and quirky characters with loopy names, villains to hiss at and I feel Bucket did a pretty good Poirot impersonation. Five star goodness.ETA: 9/3/2012: 6 likes
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...
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