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Summary: This book is a piece of literary garbage
Review: I don't think anyone should appreciate the works of a genius. Genius works is clearly a drudgery. The book, Crime and Punishment, is a great example of a novel that shows class and good writing by a "regular" writer. Charles Dickens and super gifted and no one should appreciate that. One should appreciate the hard way of learning and thats what normal people do ... they grasp the material with efforts. genius' have the easy way out and thats the main example of Charles Dickens. And anyways who wants to read about an orphan. You know that it'll always be a happoily ever after story that can no ppoint, no class, no morals, and no pride. I encourage people to read A Tree Grows IN Brooklyn, an easy to read novel that actually tells you something.
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Summary: OK at times- overall boring
Review: I read this book as an assignment and really did not enjoy it. I thought the characters were not very developed and as mentioned before, Dickens was paid by the word and I think he went off on tangents that had little or no relevance to the overall plot. At parts it was fairly amusing but most of the time, was boring and drawn out.
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Summary: It is a hair raising book
Review: This book is about a boy named Oliver Twist who mother died when he was at an early age.Oliver meets alot of people along the way.My favorite part is when Oliver tries to still a man stuff and lived through it.He had no punishment.The man,his wife,and his niece are going to take Oliver in to be one of them.It was a n old lady who had saved the money that Oliver mother had saved from a while back.The old woman is about to tell her where the money was when she just died in front of the mate.It is a good book to read and enjoy.
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Summary: I thoght it was pretty good.
Review: I think it might have been a little above my reading level. I'm thirteen. I read it for school and I thought at times it was very exciting and I didn't want to put it down. Sometimes, however, it got kind of boring. Especially when the theives were talking I could hardly understand what they were talking about. It was an okay book. I might read it again when I'm a little older.
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Summary: Not Dicken's Best- Drawn out and boring
Review: Oliver Twist was certainly not Dicken's best work. It carried on and on about irrelevant issues that did not relate to the novel's actual plot. Although it depicted the lives of the lowerclass in the Victorian era fairly accurately, it showed the upperclass as "good" people trying to help the lowerclass; This was obviously not accurate. The book wrote in 550 pages what could have been summed up nicely in 200 pages.
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Summary: Oliver Review
Review: Oliver Twist was not one of Charles Dicken's best works. Being one of his first novels, he was paid by the word. Because of this fact, the book goes on and on about subjects and often has chapters that have very little relevence to the novel's actual plot. Dicken's had great writing skills and definetly had the potential to write excellent works, however Oliver Twist was not one of these. Although the plot of the book was interesting, this 500 page book could have been summed up in about 100 pages.
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Summary: Oliver Twist describes social problems in Victorian England.
Review: Dicken's novel,Oliver Twist, is a stinging commentary on the class system of Victorian England. The author uses the protagonist, a young orphan,as an archetypical victim of the growing influence of the middle class and its intolerance of the poor. Although Dickens's use of the novel as a vehicle to express his opinion of the social conditions of the time, his writings are extremely drawn out and can sometimes be difficult for the reader to comprehend the plot of the novel. Overall, Oliver Twist gives its readers a valuable insight into the author's view of Victorian England, but one should read the book thoroughly to understand its context.
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Summary: It's a terrific classic, of literature
Review: I'm feel really glad that I read this book, you now, I'm only 18 years old and this story make me realize of many things that I haven't notest and which for I have to be grateful .
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Summary: Trashy novel
Review: This book is one of Dickens' worst, though it is one of his best known. All of his characters are very simple, unnuanced, and one-sided. It is a case of good against evil, a opposition laid so starkly that the book is unrealistic. Some of the characters are memorable (like the Artful Dodger), I'll grant Dickens that, but not much else. At its core it's a muckracking novel, a Victorian _The Jungle_, only concerned with child welfare instead of food quality standards. If you read only this Dickens novel you might be inclined to think that he was merely the Sidney Sheldon or John Grisham of his day, but he has written much better works--Hard Times is, I think, the best. (this books is also grossly antisemitic. he describes the Evil Jew, Fagin, as having teeth more similar to the fangs of a rat or a snake than to a man)
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Summary: Amazingly detailed book that everyone should read!
Review: 'Oliver Twist' is a great book. I think all those people that gave it 1-stars and 2-stars are narrow-minded, excrutiatingly dumb people that type reviews in for the fun of putting down other peoples great work. Either find some kindergarden book to read, go to school, or get a life.
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