The Old Curiosity Shop Audiobook (Unabridged)

" some Dickens I adore - (Bleak House, Oliver, Christmas Carol) - others just don't do it for me (Great Expectations, Tale of Two Cities and now this one). I don't know why, I just hate the dragged out nature of the book. By the 17th chapter the story is perhaps at best 4 chapters worth? Anyway it's still a beautiful book full of great - no outstanding writing but not one of my favourites. "

" slow but riveting at moments "

" One of Dickens earlier books. Little Nell is a less-than-terrific main character; Quilp is the essence of evil. The parallel journeys of Nell and Quilp and the pairings of characters and story lines are interesting. And, as usual, Dickens ties up all the loose ends and unnamed characters. The movie starring Peter Ustinov is a poor replacement for the book itself. "

" Oh god this dragged on and on. I like a bit of Dickens but this had 200 pages too many. I wouldn't mind if the ending had been worth all that reading...not a patch on Two Cities "

" Some great characters and perhaps the most repulsive Dickensian villain of all! I'd have liked the Old Curiosity Shop to have featured more heavily, but this is a great novel nonetheless! "

" I thoroughly enjoyed this, my second dickens novel! A genuinely pleasurable read! "

" The language is a real dichotomy - rich and complicated, yet very dated. Not a book for the "common' reader nowadays. "

" I started the *70* chapters on the librivox audiobook version and decided that it just wasn't interesting enough to stick with the book for 700 minutes. "

" Ah, Dickens... Another captivating tale, sometimes maudlin, sometimes treacly, filled with odd characters with colorful names struggling in the damp and foggy towns and through the rambling countryside of England. Always fun. "

" I really enjoyed this "old" classic. Read it on Kindle so vocabulary was easy to keep up with. But in most cases, my gut feeling on a word was correct. "

" Started out well enough but then endless wandering just got too much. The ending was sad but essentially came out of nowhere. Really it was shockingly dull. "

" Snore...I loathe Dickens' comedy characters... "

" beautiful, sentimental, classic early dickens. "

" Yet another favorite book, written by my favorite author! "

" If you like work by Charles Dickens, you'll love this drama (with a mixture of comedy). If you don't like the work of Charles Dickens.....I feel sorry for you. "

" Good another wonderful story, the writings are now old fashioned but the content is great. "

" I have tried, oh, about three times to get this book finished, but alas, it just couldn't hold my interest. "

" I was a little disappointed in this one. It had the usual Dickens twists in the end but was not quite so catching as some other Dickens books I've read. I lacked a little more romance to carry the story and I felt a lot of the characters were left quite superficial. "

" I actually bought by mistake the abridged version. It only took two hours to read. "

" An excellent novel. My favorite Dickens novel so far. "

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" Not sure if it's because I had a lot going on, but this book seemed to take a lifetime to finish. "

" Reading for book club. I've never read Dickens and am surprised that it's not as unyieldingly dour as I anticipated. I'm enjoying it. "

" I'm finding the story a bit too intense, between Quilp's abuse of his wife and grandfather's neglect of Nell. Pretty dour. "

" The story was great, the characters loveable or truly villainous. However saying that this story was the toughest to say with out of the entire Dickens I have read or reread in the last year. A bit too Dickens so it is predictable and didn’t have the clever twist in it. "

" This is one of my favorite Dickens, and many people have never heard of it. It is the story of a grandfather who truly wants what's best for his granddaughter, but he is addicted to gambling. I loved the characters. "

" I had never read this Dickens classic about Little Nell who journeys with her old grandfather to escape the evil men who are searching for him. It's the usual florid Dickens prose with lots of serindipitious coincidences. "

" I must admit, I could not finish the whole book! There was so much nonesense and description, once you waded through it, you had to go back and see what they were talking about in the first place. I guess I am not meant for such culture! "

" Bucket list! My first Dickens novel begun and finished,(besides "A Christmas Carol." "

" Angel in the house hits the road and doesn't come back no more. "

" An interesting tear jerker. Rather typical Dickens. "

" A strange Dickens & one of my favorite Dickens. There's a lamp store on 8th Avenue in the 40s in Manhattan & EVERY time I pass it, especially at night, I think of this book. I really loved this one. "

" One of only two of Dickens' books (the other being Oliver Twist) which has made me cry like a baby. "