A review by flyingfox02
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

slow-paced

3.5

Oliver Twist doesn't hit the heights of David Copperfield, which was a masterpiece so I didn't really expect it to. However, I was still pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Dickens' writing.. especially his understanding of human character, thoughts, and feelings. There's humour and melodrama sprinkled here and there too. Charles certainly love putting his protagonists through the whole spectrum of hardship and joy. I loved DC to bits, and this novel is still pretty good (even though I lost my way a little at ~75% onwards because I was in a slump), so whatever preconception I had of him as an author (Victorian authors in general) is now gone. I might even make reading Charles Dickens a yearly thing.