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This was an interesting read for a book club. I remember savoring A Tale of Two Cities but not liking Great Expectations very much. Oliver Twist falls in between the two for me. I liked the story of Oliver and how all the characters tie together, but Dickens does tend to get caught up in the details a bit for my taste. I ended up skimming a lot of the lengthy descriptions of the terrible conditions of the workhouse and children who were forced to pickpocket to support themselves. I hope to glean
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Listened to this one on audio. As many times as I had watched the movie, the book was so different (duh!) and so much better.
Nope.
Oct 04, 2015
Carmen
marked it as to-read
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