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blow_'s review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
sad
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
2.75
mattypallett's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.25
I really enjoyed the beginning, but found much of the rest to really draaaaaaaaaag on. Just watch the musical tbh, it’s a better time.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Antisemitism
emeraldrose809's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.75
harriet64's review against another edition
4.0
Aside from the fact that this book took me a while to read Oliver Twist was an extremely interesting book and well worth the read.
avent1ne's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
spencer_radio's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
throneofpages1's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
hadeanstars's review against another edition
4.0
If you can manage it, by which I mean pass off the extremism which Mr Dickens foists onto his unsuspecting characters, such that they are either very, very good, or unremittingly bad, then you will love this charming novel. I say charming, but it is not absolutely charming, only occasionally so, but when it is charming, it truly is. This is far from my favourite Dickens' novel (of the five I have so far read), but even his less accomplished works seem a delight. What his characters lack in grey area, they make up in utter blackness, or illumination. I realise (or so it seems to me) that this is a fault of Victorian lit, where the women are impossibly good, (such as Rose herein, or Agnes in David Copperfield, or Mina in Dracula) or dreadfully fallen and unfortunate, like poor Nancy, or Eustacia Vye in Return of the Native, and it seems, after you have read a great deal of it to be formulaic of the workings of the worldviews of upstanding Victorian authors, and that can get you thinking about where the roots of the Patriarchy might be found, but then you are transported in spite of it all, because Mr Dickens' great gift is that he can carry you off, reservations and all into a world so replete with warmth and humanity that how can you do anything but love it?
Perhaps not his best, I don't know, maybe the relative brevity of this 600 pages undermines it a little, but even so, a work to delight in and savour, being as it is, almost as good and deserving as little Oliver's heart.
Perhaps not his best, I don't know, maybe the relative brevity of this 600 pages undermines it a little, but even so, a work to delight in and savour, being as it is, almost as good and deserving as little Oliver's heart.