" It was an uphill battle, but I managed. it is engaging ,funny ,witty, sad, exciting. " I adore this book! It has every component for a good book. But yet I have read it a long time ago " - Octavio, The bad people are still around, but how many good ones are left? How many people are willing to take in Oliver and give him a chance to become the decent individual he is meant to be? And the government? The authorities? The people in charge? Haven't changed a bit! " - Rima, Dicken's 19th century continues to exist today. Dickens is good at making memorable characters! " - Keith, " Good novel of an orphan who gets mixed up with pickpockets. Having listened to this book, however, I really enjoyed Dickens's writing style. I listened to it read since whenever I've tried reading this book, I've always struggled with Dickens's thought process and sentence structure. " for me, this book was just soooooo sloooooow. I wonder if I'd have the same response if I weren't adopted. " An extra star for the baddies and specially Fagin, because little Oliver is just an annoying whimp, really. It has many sorrow feelings, but It end with happy :) " - Musthafan, " read it when i was a child :) " - Anurag, I really enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. I suppose Dickens can be forgiven to some degree since Oliver was one of his first works. Occasionally you see a glimmer of his later skill at turning a phrase, but dialog is horrendous. I found myself zoning out, especially during monologues. I loved every page of it, it's a little bit sad but still a great book.
It is also an interesting portrayal of the environment that poverty striken people were forced into. I especially liked the vivid descriptions of people and places. It was the first Dickens one i read in high school and made me want to read other books by him. At the heart of the drama, however, is Oliver, the orphan whose unsullied goodness leads him to salvation, and who represents Dickens’ belief in the principle of good triumphing at last. A novel with autobiographical overtones, this was the first of Dickens’ works to realistically portray London’s impoverished underworld and to illustrate his belief that poverty leads to crime. There, he is thrust into a den of thieves where some of Dickens’ most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the barbarous bully Bill Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, whose knavery threatens to send them all to the gallows. One of Dickens’ most popular novels, Oliver Twist tells the story of a young workhouse orphan who escapes into the mean backstreets of Victorian London.
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