Journal Entry 1 by GoryDetails from Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Monday, February 06, 2012

This is one of my favorite Dickens novels (though I have several other "favorites"!), so I was glad to find this battered-but-readable paperback at a local charity shop. [It has some notes on the inner front cover, most of which will be covered by the BC label, but there don't seem to be any markings in the text itself.]

I admit that I first enjoyed the tale via the 1935 film adaptation starring Ronald Colman, seen in reruns on TV. There have, of course, been many other adaptations for film and TV, some of them quite good, but I have a fondness for this one. As I recall, it's fairly faithful to the material, though with some subplots abridged or omitted, and the performances are lovely...

The story itself is a mix of (often dark) humor and horror, romance and heartbreak - a bit of a one-off for Dickens, too, as he usually stuck to domestic issues set in his own time rather than attempting historical fiction.

[For some entertaining comments on the book and adaptations, see the TV Tropes page, but beware of spoilers; most are masked, but not all.] 

Journal Entry 2 by GoryDetails at W. Pearl St. (see notes for details) in Nashua, New Hampshire USA on Tuesday, February 07, 2012

Released 3 mos ago (2/7/2012 UTC) at W. Pearl St. (see notes for details) in Nashua, New Hampshire USA

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