A long awaited read at a classic (Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens)

Member Name: JohnC1977

Product:	Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Date:	26/07/08 (8 review reads)
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Advantages: Classic Dickens

Disadvantages: It's no "Bleak House"

Shocking to say, but I only read Oliver Twist for the first time this year. I am a great fan of the works of Charles Dickens, but I think I felt I knew this one too well, with all of the versions of it I had seen on television and movies (including the cringe inducing "OLIVER!") and felt that I could never justify reading it to myself. I know that sounds terrible - very much like the old joke of "Have you read this?" "No, I'm waiting until the movie comes out" and for some who is a self confessed bibliphile, it is unacceptable. And the story of how I came to pick the book up is bad too. I was in a bookshop in St Petersburg in Russia, having run out of books to read and this was one of the few English books in the shop at the time. So I picked it up and thought it would tide me over. I cannot believe I waited so long. The depth of the book is unbelievable and I was hung on every single word. I definitely still don't consider it to be one of Dickens' better books but an average book from a great writer is still always better than a great book from an average writer

Summary: If you haven't read it then you really should. You don't know what you're missing