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Hard to get into. Very different tone than Great Expectations. Dickens puts a lot of effort into setting the bleak tone in the first section. Once it's set, you're a little depressed. It seems he resets the same scene of depravity and hunger at the beginning of each chapter before he lets the characters take the lead. This gets a little tedious. Once the end game begins, it's really good and almost makes up for the beginning of the novel. I do have to laugh at how interconnected almost every cha
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