Currently I'm reading Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and I'm enjoying it. If I finish it then it will be the first Dickens novel I have finished outside of school. I started reading David Copperfield about 2 years ago but gave up half way through and haven't revisited it. I found the plot too grand with lots of side stories; it began to ramble. My Oxford phd friend said he was paid per word so maybe he did it on purpose.
The narrative in O.T is much more succinct except for a couple of chapters in the middle with the Maylie family who look after him after their servant shoots him in the act of robbing their house, under the supervision of Bill Sikes.
Anyway, fingers crossed I finish it.
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