What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
Seth pecksniff is the most perfect character to be found of all dickens' comic characters. Tom pinch is another character in a distinguished line of too good to be true dickensian personalities, but he is shown to suffer and grow into a believable hum... Read More
Nicely formatted. Easy to read. Well worth the read in spite of several lengthy ramblings. I read this many years ago and found it just as hysterically funny now as then.
Martin chuzzlewit takes its name from a very wealthy, old gentleman and his grandson. When the elder martin falls in love without his grandfather's consent, the subsequent breach leaves the way open for all the rest to try to flatter, sneak or threate... Read More
Cons
Amazon sent an abridged recorded book without notifying the customer. Long-winded writing is very annoying to me. Heavy-handed moralizing is irritating.
The book has a meandering plotline, anvilacious moralizing, clownish villains, and a celebration of everything rural and folksy. Thackeray was mean and sarcastic and didn't care who knew it.
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Quality
The sheer quality of dickens' writing always takes my breath away – it reads as if written so effortlessly and yet his descript... Read More
I apprehensively read it and was pleasantly surprised.
She is - supposedly - a nurse of sorts, but her skills don't stop at the living; she is often drafted in to deal with the early... Read More
Many, many others in the large cast of characters are afflicted with the defect of selfishness, but pecksniff tops them all, be... Read More
Competitiveness
Through his title character in martin chuzzlewit, dickens sees america as the land of the almighty dollar.
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Great book but fyi the font in this edition is really really small
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While i hear that dickens considered this novel his best work i found it enjoyable but not a classic
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The beginning was rather slow and tedious and unfortunately the action did not pick up until the very end
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Not my favourite dickens book
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One of the few dickens books id never read
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One in his employ tom pinch is a poor unfortunate meek young lad supposedly also there to learn architecture but ends up part of the inventory acting the part of general dogsbody to fathers and gals poorly paid and ill treated
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John westlock and young martin chuzzlewit very similar in some ways but john is the nicer of the two at first at first as in he stays nice but martin junior has to deal with some elitism issues along the way
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The two things in question though firstly i think it acts as pure padding with the original serialisation in mind and i also think its about dickens wanting to be honest in fiction and of course humour about the somewhat dubious principals displayed by most eminent us citizens at that time
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