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Episode: 104 – [Review] The Old Curiosity Shop
Episode: 104 – [Review] The Old Curiosity Shop
<p>Charles Dickens really is a master of craft, and padding a novel.</p><p><br></p><p>The Old Curiosity Shop is also one of the most exhausting books I've read for the podcast.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, I take a baseball bat to Dickens' fourth novel while examining why it feels so painfully slow, melodramatic, and padded – there is a very specific reason for it! It's still Dickens though, so it can't be that bad can it? Ask Oscar Wilde...</p><p>Type: <strong>Review</strong> | Book: <strong>The Old Curiosity Shop</strong> | Writer: <strong>Charles Dickens</strong></p>