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Bleak House
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Start date
July 1, 2016
Finish date
September 30, 2016
Why we're reading this
3rd Quarter 2016 Long Read

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Tom Britz
May 31, 2018 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
This was a long and dense read. Dense because it seemed as if most of London were characters. There was much to like and quite a bit to not like, but as they say story triumphs. One thing Dickens did was tell a great story. My frustrations were the over abundance of characters that were integral in the story. There were multiple storylines (again too many), and the repetitions throughout the novel. He used a phrase to delineate a certain character, but after fifteen or twenty times of hearing , ...more
Suvi
Apart from the simpleton and annoyingly angelic and naive Esther (who unfortunately was in a big role) the character gallery was extremely enjoyable. If not the best of Dickens's books then at least very close second. The descriptions were stunning, you could feel the soot and dirty fog along with the gazes of suspicious Tom-All-Aloners. The reader will witness morbid, sad and happy events when the people connected to the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case get tangled up in it and dragged down to the de ...more
Melissa
Jun 13, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, victorian
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Sandy
Jun 02, 2015 rated it liked it
Very long and I got bogged down it parts. Is more than a court case with many characters floating in and out of the storyline.
Jenn
This book was enormously sad and incredibly good!! I highly recommend it.
Terri
Mar 23, 2008 marked it as to-read
Terri
Mar 26, 2008 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Paul
Jun 05, 2008 rated it it was amazing
Christian
Apr 10, 2009 marked it as tjek-ud
M
May 20, 2011 marked it as to-read
Splen
Jul 31, 2011 rated it it was ok
Jason
Oct 29, 2012 marked it as to-read
Shelves: bbc-100-classics
Dana Arbelaez
Jan 17, 2013 marked it as to-read
Elizabeth
May 04, 2013 marked it as to-read
Carrie
Sep 25, 2013 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Ang
Dec 06, 2013 marked it as to-read
Jaci McCon
May 04, 2014 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own, tbr
Rhonda
Mar 09, 2015 marked it as to-read
Holly
Jun 12, 2015 marked it as to-read
Erica
Jul 15, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: own
Kai Coates
Dec 05, 2017 marked it as to-read
Idit
Feb 04, 2018 rated it it was amazing
Jennifer
Jan 14, 2020 marked it as to-read
Lucy
Jan 27, 2020 marked it as to-read
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