A review by nicolekt
Oliver Twist [Adaptation] by Charles Dickens, Les Martin

3.0

This was Book 10 on my 100 essential books list. I can’t say that I loved this book but I also didn’t hate it. The story moved quite slowly, it wasn’t until the last quarter of the book that it started to pick up and I found myself reading to find out who Monks was and what was going to happen to the various characters. I find it difficult to read books written in previous centuries as the language and culture are archaic. The characters seemed a bit over the top, they were either very very good and pure or purely evil. Fagan was referred to as “the Jew” some three hundred times (a reviewer counted) but the various scholars have concluded that Dickens was not racist, I’m not convinced.