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I'm about 60 pages into Bleak House and am considering giving up. It started brilliantly with that description of the London fog, but I'm finding it uninteresting overall. I force myself to read a couple chapter each night, but it's a chore.
Any advice on plodding on versus giving up? I generally feel free to give up on a book that I'm not enjoying, but this is one of Dickens' masterpieces, right? Has anyone read it who can advise? Maybe it becomes richer and more brilliant with every chapter?
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Lynn, I reread Bleak House last year and it took me awhile to get into it, but I ended up thinking it one of his best. I think the pace of the story does go faster once most of the characters are introduced. I was rather bored with Ada and Richard though throughout. Susan E
ReplyDeletePS Have been meaning to thank you for your recommendation of In the Woods which I had a hard time getting into but ended up loving. I'm now reading her second. I hear the third will center around the undercover cop from this one and that she even come back to the narrator from In the Woods So thanks! Susan E
ReplyDeleteOh, I'm so glda you liked In the Woods. I didn't like The Likeness as much, but it's still worth reading. Read my review of it on GoodReads once you've finished, and we can compare notes.
ReplyDeletei have not read bleak house, and still i offer my commentary!! i generally think it's worth it to wade to the end of difficult books that are considered classics. usually there's a pretty significant payoff. that is all.
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