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The goblins who stole a sexton is one of charles dickens' most popular novels. The misanthropic sexton is sort of a precursor of ebenezer scrooge. The trick (for me) to read dickens is to find an excellent reader like gerald dickens and then go with i... Read More
The everyman's library classics series is wonderful. Pickwick is an aging bachelor, but still not quite ready to settle into a sedentary life. This particular kindle edition contains pen and ink illustrations that add to the book's enjoyment.
The story is a story of a group of mostly well meaning individuals who travel about and meet humorous and interesting people and have equally humorous adventures and misadventures. Twitter, especially, forces pithy expression. The characters have a si... Read More
Warmhearted and outgoing. Pickwick is always optimistic, though, even in the most dire of circumstances. He remains an individual universally admired by all he encounters.
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Quality
I was very impressed with the narrator's handling of the many characters dialects.
I did not fall in love with the characters as soon as i did with david copperfield or oliver twist though i did become fond of ... Read More
First novels seem always a little difficult even with the greats.
A tale of two cities was harder to follow because it dealt with the revolution in paris and london england and disruptions that... Read More
Packaging/appearance
This copy is made well and will hold up in the reading.
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Perhaps it would be interesting to add some notes
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Some of the vocabulary is very old english but that is when this book was written
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The settimgs ranged from interesting to ridiculous probably purposefully
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Its dickens it doesnt get any better
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I feel silly as hell rating a charles dickens book just as youd rate some bodiceripper or crime novel
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Or trust dashedoff reviews from folks who expected jack reacherstyle action
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The man was a superlative writer
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When seinfeld originally went on the air it was called or named the seinfeld chronicles
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