[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 18 KB, 286x460, our mutual friend.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
16370885 No.16370885 [Reply] [Original]

Why should I read this?

>> No.16370891

>>16370885
no

>> No.16370903

Yes

>> No.16370973

Bump

>> No.16371031
File: 12 KB, 239x211, wrinkled wojak.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
16371031

>>16370891
>>16370903
I need an answer bros. I have to read more Victorian novels before term begins, one of them will be a Dickens, and it's got to be either this or Dombey and Son. I actually have a copy of this one, but I have zero motivation to read it. I saw an anon on here who claimed that this was his favourite Dickens, and I know that Bloom is particularly fond of it, but is there anything else that can be said in favour of it that will motivate me?

>> No.16371190

>>16371031
Because it's Mr. D at both his weirdest and most excellently cynical.
Bleak House is his best novel, but Mutual Friend's my favorite.

>> No.16371215

>>16371031
Dombey's perhaps his second weirdest novel but it's quieter and a few hundred pages longer; in fact I believe it's his longest novel.

>> No.16372260

>>16370885
Perhaps his second best work, right behind Nigga Force 2: Back to Africa