Bleak House by Charles Dickens
One of Dicken's final and most acclaimed
books.
Rating:
B+
Description: This is a classic on the intertwining of relationships even in the urban setting (a sense that is really developing in the post-modern scene with ideas like "urban tribe"), and on the unlikely nature of romance and fortune. For Dickens the ending is almost too sanguine but it would be so depressing to read 700 pages and then not have it end on some upbeat.
Recommendation: Reading Dickens is like walking through a suburb and then strolling through Pacific Heights in San Francisco. Dickens uses ornamental victorian language that (when you get used to it, which takes a few hundred pages) that starts to make the nuance of language incredibly vivid. Once used to it, the story becomes richer. I'd hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who didn't like to read for a long time on one book, or who isn't interested in past lives and cultures.
Description: This is a classic on the intertwining of relationships even in the urban setting (a sense that is really developing in the post-modern scene with ideas like "urban tribe"), and on the unlikely nature of romance and fortune. For Dickens the ending is almost too sanguine but it would be so depressing to read 700 pages and then not have it end on some upbeat.
Recommendation: Reading Dickens is like walking through a suburb and then strolling through Pacific Heights in San Francisco. Dickens uses ornamental victorian language that (when you get used to it, which takes a few hundred pages) that starts to make the nuance of language incredibly vivid. Once used to it, the story becomes richer. I'd hesitate to recommend this book to anyone who didn't like to read for a long time on one book, or who isn't interested in past lives and cultures.
Posted: Mon - November 15, 2004 at 07:52 AM
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