Tag: book review
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Bleak House
Elaine
One of my new all-time favorites, right up there with David Copperfield by the same author. Perhaps one of the reasons I enjoyed this book so much is because Charles Dickens and I both love to hate the legal system, especially never-ending civil litigation. Dickens does what Dickens always does with his beautiful prose; litany Read more
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Oliver Twist
Elaine
I ran into some books I didn’t want to read on my list of Great American Novel contenders—Absalom, Absalom (I read the first couple of pages and decided I couldn’t handle a book without punctuation), The Grapes of Wrath (already read it and not a fan), The Catcher in the Rye (also not worth re-reading)—so Read more