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rachel_abby_reads 's review for:
Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens
Have you ever had a hard time choosing how to rank a book? Hm. Maybe I need a life if I see this as a dilemma.
I have a friend who is lending me BBC dramas; the effect is that I enjoy the movie and then read the book. This was one that I enjoyed, by and large. But. Dickens was paid by the word. Yikes. (although that concept might also explain people like Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, as well).
The character who probably struck me the most was Silas Wegg. All the qutoes and concepts from the book, save one, came from him: keeping up appearances to oneself (as well as others), turning one's benefactors into injurers, and the base greed and opportunism that he represents.
Bradley Headstone was just creepy, and shows that that kind of person (obsessed, cruel, murderous, creature under the rock thrust into daylight) has been around for a long time.
I'd say more, but it's time for breakfast.
I have a friend who is lending me BBC dramas; the effect is that I enjoy the movie and then read the book. This was one that I enjoyed, by and large. But. Dickens was paid by the word. Yikes. (although that concept might also explain people like Robert Jordan and Terry Goodkind, as well).
The character who probably struck me the most was Silas Wegg. All the qutoes and concepts from the book, save one, came from him: keeping up appearances to oneself (as well as others), turning one's benefactors into injurers, and the base greed and opportunism that he represents.
Bradley Headstone was just creepy, and shows that that kind of person (obsessed, cruel, murderous, creature under the rock thrust into daylight) has been around for a long time.
I'd say more, but it's time for breakfast.