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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
IT IS DONE AND I DID IT!
In the ten or so weeks it took me to read this, I didn't meet a single person outside of my book club who had ever heard of it. I hadn't heard of it, either, until Kristin suggested it as an alternative to Bleak House. Now I'm trying to decide why it's apparently so obscure, since it doesn't seem too far off the path of the Dickens novels people DO read.
Anyway: it's long, and unless you take notes, you won't remember everything that happens. But it's also pretty delightful—a good, elaborate yarn that didn't go where I thought it was going to at ALL. Dickens is familiar with injustice, but he's also pretty committed to making HIS version of the universe a just one, and it's interesting to see how that plays out.
If you're looking for something big but not too heavy, this is a good choice.
In the ten or so weeks it took me to read this, I didn't meet a single person outside of my book club who had ever heard of it. I hadn't heard of it, either, until Kristin suggested it as an alternative to Bleak House. Now I'm trying to decide why it's apparently so obscure, since it doesn't seem too far off the path of the Dickens novels people DO read.
Anyway: it's long, and unless you take notes, you won't remember everything that happens. But it's also pretty delightful—a good, elaborate yarn that didn't go where I thought it was going to at ALL. Dickens is familiar with injustice, but he's also pretty committed to making HIS version of the universe a just one, and it's interesting to see how that plays out.
If you're looking for something big but not too heavy, this is a good choice.