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One of the winners of our Q2 group read poll. Join us in April, May and June of 2022 and let's discuss!

I started reading this recently but... I don't care at the moment. I feel a bit sad as I haven't read an old classic in a while. I read this book over 7 years ago and loved it. In my review I mention enjoying the writing style and that I found the way the plots revealed and came together surprising and clever. I've since read A Christmas Carol and some other Dickens short stories which I did not enjoy so that's tainted his books for me.

There are so many other things I want to read more, so I'm going to give up on this at the present moment. I'll leave my glowing 5 star review up on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ as it's indifference I feel now, not hate, and whose to say if 2014 me was just smarter or more patient than 2022 me. It is what it is.

I recommend GREAT EXPECTATIONS and BLEAK HOUSE, you'll really appreciate Dickens. GREAT EXPECTATIONS is a quick read, BLEAK HOUSE can be dense but amazing how topical it is and what it say about the legal profession

I was amazed by Bleak House. Aside from being beautifully written, 170 years later it still describes to a T the situation of people waiting for their settlements, lawyers stringing things along for years, folks going broke waiting for that fortune that never comes (I've known plaintiffs who refuse work, wind up getting evicted. lose everything and totally waste their lives on an expected $1 million lawsuit that winds up betting them like $9000.)