GuiltyFeat | Literary White Whales Update - Bleak House @GuiltyFeat | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
My original video where I talk about four literary white whales is here - youtu.be/JCTKbFKo4zA
My first update after I read 1984 is here - youtu.be/coDcv2Ds49s
20-some years after my first attempt I came back to Bleak House by Charles Dickens and read it from beginning to end. It was a hard slog for me with some undoubted highlights. The comedy is grand although it sometimes operates as nothing more than filler.
Side characters that are not solely played for laughs can often be surprisingly rounded and affecting. Mr Snagsby, Mr George the former soldier, Jo the crossing sweeper, Charley the little girl who becomes Esther's maid, and even Sir Leicester Dedlock are all sketched with warmth and empathy and considerable skill. They are each allowed to have a story with a middle and an end with the only question being whether Dickens is too generous with the time he allots them.
I will go on and read more Dickens, but I will continue to be wary of these enormous works in a way that I am not about Trollope's heavyweight reads.
Hope you're all keeping well.
My original video where I talk about four literary white whales is here - youtu.be/JCTKbFKo4zA
My first update after I read 1984 is here - youtu.be/coDcv2Ds49s
20-some years after my first attempt I came back to Bleak House by Charles Dickens and read it from beginning to end. It was a hard slog for me with some undoubted highlights. The comedy is grand although it sometimes operates as nothing more than filler.
Side characters that are not solely played for laughs can often be surprisingly rounded and affecting. Mr Snagsby, Mr George the former soldier, Jo the crossing sweeper, Charley the little girl who becomes Esther's maid, and even Sir Leicester Dedlock are all sketched with warmth and empathy and considerable skill. They are each allowed to have a story with a middle and an end with the only question being whether Dickens is too generous with the time he allots them.
I will go on and read more Dickens, but I will continue to be wary of these enormous works in a way that I am not about Trollope's heavyweight reads.
Hope you're all keeping well.
