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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
I liked this one years ago but now cannot get into it. Dickens hasn't developed his style well enough to suit either the plot or the humor and I don't like any of the characters.
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
inspiring
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Misogyny
adventurous
emotional
funny
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:
No
This has been on my tbr pile for so long and I finally finally finally started reading/listening to it alongside reading a few weeks ago. I have no regrets. This was an amazing book- It was long, it was hard to read at times but it was an amazing book all the same.
The characters are interesting. The story is interesting and different. I loved reading about the schools and the things that were going on inside them, I loved Ralph as a villain and I loved Nicholas as a hero. And I love that Nicholas isn't perfect- he is still very much human despite being the protagonist and he still makes some very human mistakes.
The only thing that I didn't really like about the book was how many characters were introduced in the story because I often forgot who is who and I would have to trudge back through the chapters trying to find the point where that character was introduced and trying to figure out weather they are important or not or who precisely they are.
But other than that, the story is long but great, the characters are interesting and the big reveals and the grand finale was just so satisfying to read.
The characters are interesting. The story is interesting and different. I loved reading about the schools and the things that were going on inside them, I loved Ralph as a villain and I loved Nicholas as a hero. And I love that Nicholas isn't perfect- he is still very much human despite being the protagonist and he still makes some very human mistakes.
The only thing that I didn't really like about the book was how many characters were introduced in the story because I often forgot who is who and I would have to trudge back through the chapters trying to find the point where that character was introduced and trying to figure out weather they are important or not or who precisely they are.
But other than that, the story is long but great, the characters are interesting and the big reveals and the grand finale was just so satisfying to read.
dark
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death
Moderate: Suicide, Sexual harassment
Wow. I was not expecting to like this book as much as I did. Let’s get into it-
I started re-reading Nicholas Nickleby thinking it was something like my 13th or 14th favorite Dickens novel (Hard Times has an uncontestable hold on 15th, or last, place). In reading the second quarter or so that judgment felt vindicated. After the excellent last half, however, I am starting to think I was unfair. Not that there are other obvious candidates one would want to downgrade.
There is an unfair misunderstanding of Dickens that he wrote in a hurry, by the word, in serials, and that as a result his books are not well thought out integrated novels but instead one incident following another in a somewhat muddled progression. That is unfair for just about all of Dickens
There is an unfair misunderstanding of Dickens that he wrote in a hurry, by the word, in serials, and that as a result his books are not well thought out integrated novels but instead one incident following another in a somewhat muddled progression. That is unfair for just about all of Dickens