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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 ,
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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
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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.
This book was enormously sad and incredibly good!! I highly recommend it.
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