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A review by bryce_is_a_librarian
The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens
3.0
Parts of it read like the grotesque nightmare verision of what people who don't read Victorian novels suppose them to be. Melodrama, moralizing, inward vice equated with outward deformity, a heroine that suffers like a character in a Lars Von Trier film.
But as always there is enough vividness, humor and vivacity in Dickens writing to compel the reader through whatever hugger mugger the narrative throws at them.
For real though, I would pay good money for a version of this book in which Little Nell straight up smothers her grandfather with a pillow halfway through.
But as always there is enough vividness, humor and vivacity in Dickens writing to compel the reader through whatever hugger mugger the narrative throws at them.
For real though, I would pay good money for a version of this book in which Little Nell straight up smothers her grandfather with a pillow halfway through.