valariesmith 's review for:

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
2.0

I love Dickens, but Nicholas Nickleby was excruciating. It's indulgent, maudlin and written without any sense of focus or control; one gets the sense that Dickens literally had no idea what he was doing from one chapter to the next (which he may not have, as he was writing it in installments).

Since I just can't bear to give the author of Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Tale of Two Cities one star, I'll settle for giving Nicholas Nickleby two.