Book Pilgrim

Rude, Crude, Reading 'Tude
Tue-Feb-2012
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Little Dorrit, I Died.

Well, rub me with butter and call me a pancake. I lost my shit with 5-stars worth of merriment; Little Dorrit was incredible.

You don’t even know what this book has in it. Just to name a few: gondola chases, miracles, prisons, people named Tite Barnacle, dog murders, crazy exes, and I’m about 99% sure this book had lesbians. And DICKENS. I mean, we all loved A Christmas Carol, but LITTLE DORRIT. To my satisfaction, there was even a ghost. Complete.

I’ve heard there has been a resurgence in Dickens for whatever reason, and viva la Charles. The point has been made by some author whose name escapes me, that his novels are structured like our modern TV series. Subplots on subplots, with all variety of interesting stories we like to keep track of and Tumblr over. Whatever the reason, Dickens is now the new-new post-post modern voice of literature, and you heard it here first. Single plot lines are SO 2011.

Wait no longer for the next season of whatever, read Little Dorrit and be entertained until your heart blows up like a meth lab.


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