What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
David horovitch is an amazing reader. Almost made me glad i had two hours of commuting each day. You have to digest his words slower than if you were reading a modern book.
Nicholas nickleby and newman noggs are survivors in *, survivors in the sense in which they could be tempted into amoral vengeance (not ruling out moral vengeance, which is one of the games of the day). Dickens’ novel can almost be read as a rejection... Read More
The characters seem to be part of amusing anecdotes used as filler to keep the serial going. We come to know the chief protagonists, their peculiarities, their looks and wardrobes, and find that they seem familiar not only because they are described t... Read More
My kindle version has, i believe, 65 chapters, some of which are quite lengthy. The movie is quite close to the book.
Nicholas nickleby is the tale of a young man whose father has died leaving his family penniless. It is the story of a man who goes from rags to riches, but is emotionally ill-equipped to handle the sudden changes * upon him. Good book to teach about t... Read More
Cons
This edition is defective. It reads like someone used an automatic translater like google to translate it back to english from some foreign language edition. Caveat emptor - buyer beware.
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Quality
Nicholas and kate are almost preternaturally good, like angels sent from another world to punish the wrong and avenge the wronged.
(one bad guy is killed in a duel that has nothing to do with the plot.
The family is thrown into a kind of moral and existential battle with the world, having been expelled from a comfortable if not... Read More
Packaging/appearance
As with many books written in the 1800s, the prose tends to be very wordy, and the style of the language is more stilted and fo... Read More
Competitiveness
As i read, i thought of de sade’s book, justine (written about fifty years earlier and set in an almost equally decadent france).
Dickens’ novel can almost be read as a rejection of de sade’s world and an affirmation of the potential for the goodness embodi... Read More
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Readers who loverich language should be excited with it
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Nicholas nickleby is a typical dickens novel
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It could have half the words and still convey the same information
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Every choice we make in life affects us as was seen in the case of old nickleby who died alone
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However the kindle translation was a disappointment
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How hard to remember it was only a novel
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All of which i gave three stars on goodreads
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Complicated plot and lots of characters and chapters that reflect dickens stint as a writer of novels published serially in newsprint or magazines
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