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I have to say that Bleak House is one of my less favorite Dickens novels. Tom Send a noteboard - 06/08/2012 12:26:32 AM
Of course, there are still plenty I haven't read, but Bleak House was very uneven in its pacing and extremely long. I enjoyed the beginning immensely because of its dismal view of the equity courts, but then the book dragged for a long time before that great case of spontaneous human combustion and what was in all fairness a wonderful last 200 pages.
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ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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