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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
my first dickens novel. was throughly impressed. was loving it until the ending actually,,,got a bit crinkled there. but ultimately a really fun read with a lot of emotion and reflection behind it.
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
One of my favorite Dickens books. All of Dickens' humor, rich and colorful characters, and heart-rending storytelling, in a book that is not 1200 pages long! Particularly interesting is his comparisons between laborers and elite, hard facts and heart. Great book.
- an anti-women in stem text for the ages!
- this has an astounding first section, i was really caught up in the circus bit, and it’s such a shame sissy fades into perfect empath girl
- this is a book stuffed with perfect good person models, my favourite of which is mr sleary for sure
- beyond that lot, though, louisa’s kind of a triumph of engaged, pointed character writing, as is gradgrind, who works beautifully as a rerun at scrooge: i liked their near terribleness, because it made their goodness all the more impactful
- authors dont mock and hate their nasty characters anymore, theyre not sarcastic and they dont say they should kill themselves like they used to
- perfectly plotted to bring out the themes at every turn. how do you plot like this?
- perhaps this is just in contrast with other dickenses, but this felt so short, practically a novella!
- it’s interesting this seems to have been received as a labour novel, obviously i get why, but it feels far more an examination of the badnessgoodness of family
- weird how different to the rest of dickens’ work this felt, purely because it was set in the north of england. like, what is this, a gaskell? obviously dickens is so intertwined with places in and around london, but i also know he travelled, so it shouldn’t have come as a shock that he could write elsewhere. yet it felt almost uncanny
slow-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No