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My summer reading project has been completed. At 989 pages, I feel like Super Reader!! And I must say, it was well worth the effort.
Bleak House is a massive, sprawling novel teeming with a multitude of characters. About 1/3 way in, I began to make a Who's Who chart, it was getting to be so out of control. You couldn't afford to forget even a presumably minor, minor character, for he or she was bound to show up again.
The narration technique was a little strange--some chapters had the ol' 3rd-pers ...more
Bleak House is a massive, sprawling novel teeming with a multitude of characters. About 1/3 way in, I began to make a Who's Who chart, it was getting to be so out of control. You couldn't afford to forget even a presumably minor, minor character, for he or she was bound to show up again.
The narration technique was a little strange--some chapters had the ol' 3rd-pers ...more
Apart from the simpleton and annoyingly angelic and naive Esther (who unfortunately was in a big role) the character gallery was extremely enjoyable. If not the best of Dickens's books then at least very close second. The descriptions were stunning, you could feel the soot and dirty fog along with the gazes of suspicious Tom-All-Aloners. The reader will witness morbid, sad and happy events when the people connected to the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case get tangled up in it and dragged down to the de
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