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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
Like you, I appreciate Dickens’ descriptive writing, but dislike his sentimentality.
But when he’s good, he’s very good indeed. The strange opening of the book was very powerful and unusual, as it was hard to understand at first what was going on. That certainly pulled me in.
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The opening was very powerful; I felt at sea too, and was worried I might not be able to understand the book. It was a relief to get to normal time and space. And I’ll probably never be able to shake his vivid pictures of an opium den. They’re seared into my brain.
He was so inventive - it takes an amazing imagination to create ghosts of Christmas past.