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I honestly don't know why this book is Dickens' most popular. It was okay, but not brilliant. It started out okay, the middle was excruciatingly boring, and the end was okay.
Let's start with the beginning.
You know how publishers/editors these days judge a book mostly by how suspenseful the beginning is? (I know, I've done the research) This was the case with this book. It starts put with an innocent boy being death-threatened by a convict who demands some dinner. It was interesting and I read t ...more
Let's start with the beginning.
You know how publishers/editors these days judge a book mostly by how suspenseful the beginning is? (I know, I've done the research) This was the case with this book. It starts put with an innocent boy being death-threatened by a convict who demands some dinner. It was interesting and I read t ...more

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