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amylee218 's review for:
Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
This book took me almost a year to finish. I kept putting it down and moving on to other books.
Dickens is brilliant at describing setting and character-- they are vivid, almost jumping off the page. Where this book got me was plot. I know Nicholas Nickleby was released in monthly installments, and it was this episodic nature that bogged me down. There were stories-within stories (looking at you, scene at the inn) and Dickens never me a tangent he didn't go on. I honestly wondered at certain points if he was getting paid by the word. But it was sharp, and witty, and, slowly, the plot developed and the story pulled me in.
Charles Dickens wrote this book after seeing the horrible conditions at a Yorkshire boarding school. No one can do social commentary like he can, and this book led to changes in the running of these schools, and many of the worst were shut down. That is some powerful writing from someone in their mid-twenties.
Dickens is brilliant at describing setting and character-- they are vivid, almost jumping off the page. Where this book got me was plot. I know Nicholas Nickleby was released in monthly installments, and it was this episodic nature that bogged me down. There were stories-within stories (looking at you, scene at the inn) and Dickens never me a tangent he didn't go on. I honestly wondered at certain points if he was getting paid by the word. But it was sharp, and witty, and, slowly, the plot developed and the story pulled me in.
Charles Dickens wrote this book after seeing the horrible conditions at a Yorkshire boarding school. No one can do social commentary like he can, and this book led to changes in the running of these schools, and many of the worst were shut down. That is some powerful writing from someone in their mid-twenties.