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A review by charlottejones952
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
3.0
This is another recent audiobook pick. It's a novel that I've tried to read several times but never got further than the 100 page mark. However, I found the audiobook a lot more absorbing and it helped to differentiate the characters from each other a little more.
The characters are my main complaint about this novel; none of them are very distinct or memorable and it seems that Dickens was writing completely different stories from the first 100 pages to the rest of the book. The characters introduced at the beginning were the caricatured Dickensian characters I have come to expect, but they seemed very flat throughout the rest of the novel.
Overall, this isn't my favourite of the Charles Dickens novels that I have read but I think it might be a good one to start with as it gives a great feel for the writing and storytelling style of the author, without being one of his longer books.
The characters are my main complaint about this novel; none of them are very distinct or memorable and it seems that Dickens was writing completely different stories from the first 100 pages to the rest of the book. The characters introduced at the beginning were the caricatured Dickensian characters I have come to expect, but they seemed very flat throughout the rest of the novel.
Overall, this isn't my favourite of the Charles Dickens novels that I have read but I think it might be a good one to start with as it gives a great feel for the writing and storytelling style of the author, without being one of his longer books.