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So, here I sit, rat licking at my fingers - wait. That is not today's topic. Ahem.
I have just lately finished Oliver Twist for the first time, my first Dickens. It has taken me, I do not know how long, maybe a month or even two. Must read it again sometime when I will not be so interrupted (does such a time exist?) to still better appreciate this tale. Still, the last third especially felt like a continual exercise in getting me to tear up. I do hope I have learned things from it too. Charles Dickens surely deserves his reputation, especially with the drawing of characters. He also wields the club of irony and sarcasm something fierce in this one, especially near the beginning, but I am certainly not complaining. And, I do imagine the Lemony Snicket stories (such as I have read so far) take rather a lot of their feel from Dickens (just an isolated observation, an orphan if you will). Certainly no original or unpredictable plot (Might it have been, then? Doubted!) but I care not a whit. The enjoyment is in the telling.
Did I mention I do not do reviews? But sometimes when I read a story I feel like talking about it. Don't think I will ever be cut out for providing book blurbs, though. Next up from the same volume, Hard Times.
Peace, Love and Sleepy-sleep,
Tricia
~_~
I have just lately finished Oliver Twist for the first time, my first Dickens. It has taken me, I do not know how long, maybe a month or even two. Must read it again sometime when I will not be so interrupted (does such a time exist?) to still better appreciate this tale. Still, the last third especially felt like a continual exercise in getting me to tear up. I do hope I have learned things from it too. Charles Dickens surely deserves his reputation, especially with the drawing of characters. He also wields the club of irony and sarcasm something fierce in this one, especially near the beginning, but I am certainly not complaining. And, I do imagine the Lemony Snicket stories (such as I have read so far) take rather a lot of their feel from Dickens (just an isolated observation, an orphan if you will). Certainly no original or unpredictable plot (Might it have been, then? Doubted!) but I care not a whit. The enjoyment is in the telling.
Did I mention I do not do reviews? But sometimes when I read a story I feel like talking about it. Don't think I will ever be cut out for providing book blurbs, though. Next up from the same volume, Hard Times.
Peace, Love and Sleepy-sleep,
Tricia
~_~
