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by Charles Dickens, Nick Hornby
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The English Student
The English Student rated it 10 years ago
Aww. Just awww.What, you want a longer review? Oh, all right...Our Mutual Friend is Charles Dickens' last completed novel, and it's long been my favourite. It follows a large cast of characters, from the nouveau-riche Veneerings with their society dinners to old, poor Betty Higden, whose one remaini...
Edward
Edward rated it 11 years ago
AcknowledgementsIntroductionA Dickens ChronologyFurther ReadingA Note on the Text--Our Mutual FriendExplanatory NotesAppendix 1: The IllustrationsAppendix 2: The Number Plans
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: britain-england, fraudio, play-dramatisation, victorian, published-1865, classic, winter20092010 Read in November, 2009 This Radio 4 adaption is good enough for an enjoyable taster but I still need to read the book. There must be oh so much genius lying on the cutting room floor afte...
newwavepolly
newwavepolly rated it 11 years ago
I figured the rest of my Dickens reading would be a consistent 2 stars, but I blanked out after about two chapters and just kept turning pages. I probably wouldn't even know the basic story if I didn't read the wikipedia plot summary.
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL
UNICORN PORN FOR ALL rated it 11 years ago
Just heard a terrific argument for reading this last (it was his last book) and I don't want to forget it. Read this last.
AnnaMatsuyama
AnnaMatsuyama rated it 12 years ago
4.5Book 4, chapter 13 "Showing how the golden dustman helped to scatter dust" was very disappointing and I don't know what circumstances made Dickens to write it. Whatever it was he was not able to change previous chapters as they were already published and when he made his mind to change something ...
Adriana Reads
Adriana Reads rated it 12 years ago
The first half of this book was a bit of a tough slog, and were it not for the fact that I had it on excellent authority that I was in for a treat, I would have been tempted to give up. The pace picked up considerably at the start of section 3, though. This book has a little bit of everything to p...
Par Lance
Par Lance rated it 12 years ago
I first read Our Mutual Friend when I was thirteen years old, and I awarded it five stars on Goodreads based on my memory of that first read. I always remembered this as my favourite Charles Dickens novel, and I am still strongly of that opinion. If I could award it yet another five stars, I would. ...
mags
mags rated it 13 years ago
I'm totally adding this book after it was mentioned in [b:The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight|10798416|The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight|Jennifer E. Smith|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510q%2BiCQiTL._SL75_.jpg|15464655]. Suck it, YA haters!
I'm Reading...
I'm Reading... rated it 13 years ago
Other thoughts/reviews:Books and Chocolate: http://karensbooksandchocolate.blogspot.be/2012/06/our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens.htmlBooksPlease: http://www.booksplease.org/2012/08/30/our-mutual-friend-by-charles-dickens/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Booksplease+%28B...
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