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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Another brilliant Dickens read, up there with our mutual friend and bleak House. I think the best part of Dickens is his characters and the way he takes you on a roller coaster of emotions. You can be laughing one minute, crying the next, and infuriated the next but never bored!
I love how the side characters all get their stories too and in this one, when it seemed to reach its climax with Florence and her father we also then get the resolutions of other characters stories.
I absolutely LOVED Toots!
I part read and part listened on audible. Owen Teale's performance of the audiobook was top drawer. What a phenomenal voice actor he is! Highly recommend.
I love how the side characters all get their stories too and in this one, when it seemed to reach its climax with Florence and her father we also then get the resolutions of other characters stories.
I absolutely LOVED Toots!
I part read and part listened on audible. Owen Teale's performance of the audiobook was top drawer. What a phenomenal voice actor he is! Highly recommend.
This was really different from the other Dickens books I've read. Certainly much darker, I think. While perhaps not my favorite of his, I thoroughly enjoyed it and feel like I learned a lot.
Honest to god I thought I would hate this book. Over all I really enjoyed it. It was written in serial form and that's why its like a thousand pages so dickens could have cut back on a lot if it was just a regular novel. Still liked it
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
This book is much darker than any of the Dickens I've read so far. It has some arresting, emotional scenes, and some deeply compelling characters, but my god is it long and drawn out. And I say this as a Dickens fan.
Once again, if you're a Dickens fan don't skip this one, but if you're not... it may not be a journey you want to embark on.
Once again, if you're a Dickens fan don't skip this one, but if you're not... it may not be a journey you want to embark on.
slow-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I just couldn't care about the characters. Apparently this is one of the more obscure Dickens work and I'm not the biggest fan of him anyways. I was going really slowly because it just wasn't interesting me.
I didn't like the ending. I wish Mr. Dombey had suffered more. Also, the grammatical structure was annoying, it felt like way too many prepositions.
This book presents Dickens at both his very best and occasional worst. His prose, describing the downfall of a prideful man, sings. Most of his characters ring true. The admonishment against greed and wanton desires, and his upholding of virtue is terrific. But it's also a needlessly long book. There are subplots that would pan out if this were a shorter novel, but here are just excess baggage. Some of the dialogue does not age particularly well, especially the effusive forms of "I love you" uttered by Florence on so many of the pages in which she appears. She's yet another terrific Dickensian character imbued with kindness and virtue, but, boy, does she express herself with a heavy helping of treacle.
It's not one of his most famous books, but it contains some of Dickens' darkest and most despairing moments. I kind of wished the book had ended darker, but rather there is the necessity of getting just about everyone married, giving them kids, and letting them live happily ever after. And while Dombey's redemption is poignant and earned, it's his downfall that is the heart of this tragedy.
This is much more of a deep cut Dickens: quite long, at times far too dense, but worth it if you want a challenge and are interested in diving deep into Victorian England.
It's not one of his most famous books, but it contains some of Dickens' darkest and most despairing moments. I kind of wished the book had ended darker, but rather there is the necessity of getting just about everyone married, giving them kids, and letting them live happily ever after. And while Dombey's redemption is poignant and earned, it's his downfall that is the heart of this tragedy.
This is much more of a deep cut Dickens: quite long, at times far too dense, but worth it if you want a challenge and are interested in diving deep into Victorian England.