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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
slow-paced
I could really only muster two stars for this one. Normally I enjoy reading Dickens, but this felt like Dickens in a blender to me. It seemed like he was just recycling concepts that he had used before: the pure young woman of lowly birth with a heart of gold, the old miser, the shifty villain, the Tiny Tim like character who is disabled. They were almost archetypes of archetypal Dickens characters. The plot didn't grab me, and overall I just felt like there wasn't a clear focus. It starts out strong, and there's some wonderfully atmospheric prose and a few interesting plot twists, but definitely not my favorite Dickens.