hismercysurrounding 's review for:

The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

2.5

dark emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Just took me seven years to read! haha - I like Dickens in film form, but his writing leaves something to be desired, in my way of thinking. Detailed descriptions go on for pages and I wonder why I should even care about most of the characters. Yes, they play into the story, but at least in this book there was little exciting or interesting about the story in the way it was laid out. But I didn't want to leave it unfinished! However, sometimes it was fun to read aloud with a British accent.