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dannmaloney816 's review for:
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens, Jeff Nunokawa, Gage McWeeny
Not my favorite Dickens. No real humor. No really interesting characters. I think it's too heavy-handed social critique with a confusing antagonism for unions which just doesn't make sense given the SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF THE NOVEL. I read it for the Gradgrind scenes which worked well with my project. As a critical text, it's fascinating to consider some of the historical qualities of the novel. As entertainment (which I don't think is an inappropriate question considering Dickens), I really thought it lacked.