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alismcg 's review for:
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This reader's wholly grateful to have discovered such a fine unabridged copy of "Our Mutual Friend"--in the Macmillan Collector's Library edition 1171 pp--for a 2nd read of Dickens' last completed & monumental novel.
And yes, this time 'round that softly brilliant flash in the finish... how necessary and why so those pieces--which I might have so readily left out--fit together for an understanding.
"Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us."
"Power (unless it be the power of intellect or virtue) has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures... "
It's all about money and power, who finds it , who's 'found out' by it. And in the words of our friend Rumty,
" 'Ah me!' , said he,
' what might have been is not what is!' "
(By the way if any reviewer knows how one might add the correct information concerning pages under editions of an ISBN to Goodreads database, please be so kind to include in the comments.)
"...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read , ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
Mr Dickens, you rock! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
And yes, this time 'round that softly brilliant flash in the finish... how necessary and why so those pieces--which I might have so readily left out--fit together for an understanding.
"Relieve us of our money, scatter it for us, buy us and sell us, ruin us, only we beseech ye take rank among the powers of the earth, and fatten on us."
"Power (unless it be the power of intellect or virtue) has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures... "
It's all about money and power, who finds it , who's 'found out' by it. And in the words of our friend Rumty,
" 'Ah me!' , said he,
' what might have been is not what is!' "
(By the way if any reviewer knows how one might add the correct information concerning pages under editions of an ISBN to Goodreads database, please be so kind to include in the comments.)
"...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read , ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
Mr Dickens, you rock! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐