falconerreader 's review for:

Hard Times by Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny

5.0

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One of my favorite Dickens novels--and,what a coincidence,the shortest! He definitely has an axe to grind in this, what with naming teachers "Gradgrind" and whatnot, but when I first read it in 8th grade or so, I was in full support of his attack on rote teaching and defense of the noble poor. And once I love a book, it's hard to ever re-evaluate, because of the impact it had at the time.