enjoyable reads. Good novels to reread.

I only read A Tale of Two Cities from this collection. I loved the begining and ending lines! I was rather confused about the beginning, though. Maybe I will be able to understand this book after i have had more experience reading books from this time period.

Final Rankings~
Great expectations 4.25 ⭐️
A Christmas Carol 4.25 ⭐️
Oliver Twist 4⭐️
A tale of two cities 4⭐️

I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed Dickens work.

Great Expectations 3*
Hard Times 0*
A Christmas Carol 1*
A Tale of Two Cities 4*

I reread this every year. It never gets boring.

I was always averse to Dickens, thinking that his writing would be dry. And I have been wonderfully surprised to find such humor and wit in his writing. I absolutely love the characters of Joe and Pip, and I find Dickens' sense of humor contemporary and throughly enjoyable.

One of my favorites.

Great literature but really hard for me to follow.

From 0 to 4 Dickens novels! There was an INSANE amount of typos in this edition. Like every few pages. I really enjoyed these stories. I loved how totally melodramatic and soap opera-y they were. Also Hard times had a very similar plot line to the Wilmington massacre-set book I read recently. the dissolute rich squandering all their money then stealing and pinning it on the poor & oppressed. but of course they are found out and punished in the end. Super fun to read, all of them. AND THE NAMES. Pumblechook?? jeez louise. so good.

{old notes}
(535) Scrooge's Nephew:

"Christmas... as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on their journeys"

I like anything by Charles Dickens. I think he has a wonderfully witty descriptive voice. My all time favorite is A Christmas Carol which I try to reread every Christmas to put me in the mood.

i have just read "great expectation" it is a real outstanding story.it is the most excitting story i have ever read.