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Dickens is an absolute master at writing rich, sympathetic, lifelike characters. I actually don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do it as well as he does. I keep finishing kind of mundane passages of dialogue, or first-person narrative, and having tears well up in my eyes because it’s just so… alive.

Another dense one, trying to clear out my bookshelf this year. Usually I'm really bad with Dickensian prose so let's see how long it takes for me to finish this one.

i didn’t process anything i just read