I'm a Dickens fan, and even though I've only read Bleak House once. I think it is my favorite Dickens book. Jarndyce v Jarndyce even recently appeared in a freewrite of mine! The book was long, but I love long novels. I'll read this one again I am sure.
Nice review!!
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Ah, good to find a fellow Dickens lover on hive!
I haven't read many Dickens novels, this is my third actually but I can safely say this gotta be one of the finest books I've ever read.
I do love reading long books too. Although the current one Im reading aint that long, It's "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall" By Anne Bronte. So far it started really well.
Thanks for reading and dropping by Owasco. :)
I'm 2/3 the way through Atlas Shrugged. Haven't read Anne Bronte at all. Maybe it's time.
Wow, that's a feat indeed. I dropped Atlas Shrugged at 25%, I couldn't go on.
Anne Bronte is quite underrated and overshadowed by her sisters I'd say.
I loved Wuthering Heights. Someone wrote a sequel that was really good too.
Atlas Shrugged is very difficult reading at first, but once you get into her head, it gets really good. So many likenesses to today, with excessive social programs and regulations squelching innovations and production for instance. I recently learned that Rand was a freemason, and can now see her hints about that. I'm wondering what else in her philosophy is based in freemasonry. Was she another one of these predictive programming producers? There were so many...