"oliver twist" - charles dickens **
i totally loved great expectations so i figured i would love long drawn out dickensian tales of destruction and redemption in general, but i just really didn't connect with this oliver fellow. it was soooo sentimental, oliver was so good to the core but just extremely unlucky and lucky and unlucky and lucky in turn... i mean, good social commentary blah blah blah, but overall it felt really simple and not that interesting. i really struggled to get through it. i felt so tempted to just watch the movie and be done with it, but then i would feel like a cheat, not much better than the heartless scoundrels in the bleak novel.
i'm glad i read it, but it was literally a marathon effort - you don't enjoy it, but you're proud you finished alive.
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