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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I'm sure the story is very good, there's a reason it's considered a classic. But the writing style is just not something I could get through easily.
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
I love Dickens’ passive sarcastic voice. His attention to the attitudes toward the poor, and the unconscious demands for their gratitude, are well written. The story was fun and exciting.
adventurous
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I first read this book as part of my high school set list. I didn’t appreciate it enough. I went back to read it with a new perspective and I quite enjoyed it. It takes the way of a fairytale in that the ‘good guys’ win and all who wished or did them ill got there ‘justice’. But it was still an enjoyable journey, an emotional adventure. The characters brought variety and substance to the story and made it funny and interesting.
I’m glad I got to experience this story again and this time to do it right.
I’m glad I got to experience this story again and this time to do it right.
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The audiobook was fantastic! A good story with an easy ending
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
my favourite book :)
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
This was a hefty tome. Not as long as David Copperfield or Bleak House or Little Dorrit, but still ponderous. It was not a bildingsroman like David Copperfield; Oliver is just a child from beginning to end.
The book starts off with the famous scene in which Oliver gets punished for asking for more porridge at the orphanage where all the orphans are mal-nutritioned and had voted for Oliver to be the one who asks for more food. Eventually, the institute sells him to a coffin maker whose household bullies and starves him until he runs away. He is picked up off the street by the Artful Dodger, a pick pocket who introduces him to a life of crime and brings him into the underworld that's peopled with prostitutes and thieves and villains. Nancy the prostitute, Bill Sykes the murderer, Fagan the sinister jew, Bates and the already mentioned Artful Dodger. They stand as the lower rungs of society. Luckily, fate would have it two times Oliver becomes terminally ill and is nursed back to health. After the last of these illnesses, he becomes a gentleman upon his adoption by a sweet young lady and her adopted mother. As typical Dickens, the multitudunous plots and characters come together at the end.
The book starts off with the famous scene in which Oliver gets punished for asking for more porridge at the orphanage where all the orphans are mal-nutritioned and had voted for Oliver to be the one who asks for more food. Eventually, the institute sells him to a coffin maker whose household bullies and starves him until he runs away. He is picked up off the street by the Artful Dodger, a pick pocket who introduces him to a life of crime and brings him into the underworld that's peopled with prostitutes and thieves and villains. Nancy the prostitute, Bill Sykes the murderer, Fagan the sinister jew, Bates and the already mentioned Artful Dodger. They stand as the lower rungs of society. Luckily, fate would have it two times Oliver becomes terminally ill and is nursed back to health. After the last of these illnesses, he becomes a gentleman upon his adoption by a sweet young lady and her adopted mother. As typical Dickens, the multitudunous plots and characters come together at the end.