1.5 stars. to be fair, i skimmed at least 40% of this book. but i just found so much of it to be completely superfluous; the entire thing could have been written, without loss, in like 250 pages. i guess his long-windedness allows him to talk about some things that i'm glad he put in - like pover...
First sentence: "London. Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall."P. 99: "I could not help it; I tried very hard, but being alone with that benevolent presence, and meeting his kind eyes, and feeling so happy and so honoured there, and my heart so full..."...
This is one of the only Charles Dickens books that I have really liked. I think it was because of the storyline. I found the storyline similiar to a Jane Austen versus Dickens' other books.
At All Ears, we often recommend that children both read along with a book as they listen to the audio version - it helps them comprehend and retain more from the book. Recently, some of our adult customers mentioned that they also do this. I decided to give this a try with Bleak House by Charles D...
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:
How to describe the story? I leave to better reviewers than I. A long and complicated tale about a dispute over a will and a family inheritance that destroys most of the litigants, either to madness or death, leaving it all to the bloodsucking attorneys. There are many many unusual characters in the...
This was the first of Dickens' novels that I was able to sit through and really enjoy reading. (Having seen the miniseries with Gillian Anderson first helped immensely) One of the best looks at Victorian morality and the legal system that I've seen, filled with characters that I can not forget at al...
It was OK, but I'm afraid I just don't much enjoy Dickens. I know that's my problem. Maybe they'll invent a surgical procedure some time that will allow me to correct it.
Weirdly, this was my first Dickens, except Christmas Carol, Loved it then, still love it best. I saw a funny reference the other day to someone who thought Jarndyce v. Jardyce was a real case, and how smug that made me. No story that includes spontaneous human combustion can be to dull, though, ca...
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