Review: It is a worthwhile uphill climb!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
Dickens is no easy read! It requires a marathon runner's tenacity and determination to get to the end.  However when you do it is worth the sweat equity!When Dickens was a "setwork" required reading in high school I hated him with a passion.Now  ... a little more mature I have found growing richness with each reading.I now also am amazed at the deep and unafraid stance he took against social injustice ... like the type of uncaring vindictiveness against the lower classes  practiced with relish by the upper classes (now there is a misnomer!) in pre-Victorian England during King William IV's time (around 1836).Dickens deserves the adoration and status he has achieved ... he earned it with some of the English languages finest word pictures!It is literature with depth, vision and great characters with great names ... Oliver Twist, Uriah Heep, Edwin Drood, Nicholas Nickelby!The plots are strong and the stories keep your attention. It really does not get any better than this.My favorite is still "A Tale of Two Cities"