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Originally Posted by nikkiARNGwife
I liked the story in Bleak House but man it needed some editing...10 pages of descriptive passages before getting to the meat of a chapter was a bit much. But I made it through. It's one of those rare instances when the movie was better.
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You should try Les Misérables, Dickens is very, very brief in his descriptions compared to Hugo. :-D
That's how they wrote in that time. It's us who lack patience these days - and what amazes me I didn't mind in my teens, but in my 30s I simply can't read 19th century prose for this reason. :-)