lisamshardlow 's review for:

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

4.0

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I really don't remember this story being so dark and sinister! This is my first time reading the book, but I have seen the musical (1968) version of the film several times when I was younger, although I don't really remember much of it now. Without all the songs, which probably do make the whole thing a bit more light hearted, I guess it is just a story of a young boy who escapes the workhouse, goes and lives/works with a gang of pickpockets, and eventually good things do come to him, but on the whole it is really quite dark. That's not to say that I didn't enjoy it though, I thought it was really good.