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Elizabeth (Alaska)
May 07, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classics, 5-star-reads, kindle, 1001-books, author-dickens
I continue to thoroughly enjoy Charles Dickens. This one has as its underlying premise Britain's Court of Chancery. He tells us in his Preface of the real state of that Court, and that there was at the time of writing Bleak House a case that had been in existence for 20 years. In this novel, the fictitious case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce - a case of disputed and conflicting wills - has been in existence beyond the lives of the original litigants. And then Dickens remarks: In Bleak House I have pur ...more
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Tien
Mar 29, 2011 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: read-on-kobo, classic, england, mm-16
That took me a monstrously long time to finish! It was slow to start (as with all Dickens’ novels!) and until you’ve grasped the pace and language, you really have to work in persistence to get through it. Most of all, I enjoyed the mystery he presented in this novel... I didn’t quite like Inspector Bucket at the start but when he set out the solution to the mystery & arresting the perpetrator, Wow! I loved him from then on. I guess I’m just a mystery buff. On the other hand, I just couldn’t get ...more
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Ms. Hicks
Jan 23, 2011 added it  ·  review of another edition
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I'm feeling very conflicted right now. I don't know whether to put five stars or two...or something in between. ...more
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Paula
Nov 19, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Nothing is random.
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Ruth
Jan 07, 2008 marked it as to-read
Miriam
Feb 06, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Potjy
Jun 24, 2008 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: mystery-gloomy, favorites
Sam
Mar 21, 2009 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: tbr-literature
Dave
Apr 30, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Anika
Apr 12, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Coralie
Sep 09, 2010 rated it really liked it
Lisa
Jan 17, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Jules
Mar 30, 2011 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Jane
Jul 17, 2011 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: fiction, thesis
Alexandria
Aug 12, 2011 marked it as to-read
Amy W
Nov 25, 2011 marked it as to-read
Shelves: classics, tbr-literary, winter-3
Ligia Lesko
Jan 07, 2012 marked it as to-read
Juniper
Jun 02, 2012 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: owned, classics
chunwui
Aug 26, 2012 marked it as to-read
Dana Arbelaez
Jan 17, 2013 marked it as to-read
Laurie
Mar 24, 2013 marked it as to-read
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