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A review by ladydewinter
Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
4.0
I was honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed “Nicholas Nickleby”. I blame “Oliver Twist” - I suspect that since he wrote parts of them during the same period, I expected them to be similar. Luckily, I found “Nicholas Nickleby” a lot more entertaining. Because while it’s nowhere as cohesive as his later novels, it reads like an outrageous soap opera with bonus social comedy. And even though he does the same thing every single time, his death scenes make me tear up despite myself.
It’s not as good as “Bleak House” or “Great Expectations“, but I had almost as much fun as reading “David Copperfield”.
I admit at the beginning of this month I was kind of side-eyeing myself because of my Dickens project, but this book gave me reason to go on. And it is still fascinating to stick with one author book after book - at this point, I’ve read about 4,200 pages of Dickens. Now I’m almost at the halfway point, and for now I’ll keep going.
It’s not as good as “Bleak House” or “Great Expectations“, but I had almost as much fun as reading “David Copperfield”.
I admit at the beginning of this month I was kind of side-eyeing myself because of my Dickens project, but this book gave me reason to go on. And it is still fascinating to stick with one author book after book - at this point, I’ve read about 4,200 pages of Dickens. Now I’m almost at the halfway point, and for now I’ll keep going.