A review by steven_nobody
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

5.0

2012 was my year of reading Dickens in order, and it was immediately obvious this was leagues ahead of everything previous. First, Dickens wrote some awesome and beautiful descriptions of nature. Then the amazing cast of comic characters are Dickens' best in that line: the hypocrite Pecksmith, his daughters, and that drunk Sairey Gamp. I really like the American chapters despite much of it being a swindle-plot, and that is my least favorite plot type in any novel. I love the murder plot in the second half of the book and am amazed at the depth of psychology presented there. However, there are some dreadful character-types who would still plague Dickens' later novels, viz the sickeningly bland lovers. In this novel there are no less than three sets of them! That's why in this reading I skipped those parts, and have lost nothing in enjoymen