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Originally Posted by astrangerhere
I usually enjoy Dickens, so this was not going to be a stretch for me. I always enjoy the caricature characters that Dickens draws. I relish his plays on words that were clearly intended to push his wordcount up (he was paid by the word for his serials). Outlandish? You bet, but very entertaining to me nonetheless. I enjoy hating his dastardly and dumb characters, and I enjoy both main female characters in this one as well.
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I almost need a warm-up book for Dickens. Something to set the mood and remind me that caricature characters does not mean the whole thing is a farce. Otherwise I get what happened to me here, and I hit the caricatures and start to expect all the wrong things.