read a Dickens novel

difficult.

I’m 300+ pages into Great Expectations and it is hard to read. I am not enjoying it, but I am forcing myself to do it.

Purchased this tonight with a coupon! It is going in the ready to read stack.

I loved this book! “Tale of two Cities”I recommend it to anyone.
Thumbs up!

Down to my last 100 pages. Very exciting book!

This is going wonderfully!I just love the book.

Well I’ve started a “Tale of two cities” the first couple of pages were hard to get into (I haven’t read anything to challenging lately) Now I think I’m getting into the rhythm of the story. Yeah!

Like everybody else, I had to read Great Expectations in high school, and I hated it. I read it again last year and appreciated it a lot more. So I say—if you read Dickens in high school or something, give him another shot. You’ll probably like him a lot more.

I need to work on the muscle between my ears. This looked like a good place to start.

I love Charles Dickens’ works. I was introduced to his writings when I fell in love with all of the A Christmas Carol movies as a kid. I love the depth of his writings and the way he weaves his characters like a tapestry and one seemingly un-important character that appears in the first half of the story will suddenly re-appear in the second half as a pivotal character to resolve the story line. I love it! :)
My all time favorite though is Little Dorrit. Ohhhhh how I love that story.

Bleak House and Nicholas Nickleby, I think. My mother used to read the whole of ‘A Christmas Carol’ to us children every Christmas eve, for about three winters! (She ended up a bit hoarse afterwards.)