Episode: 104 – [Review] The Old Curiosity Shop

Charles Dickens really is a master of craft, and padding a novel.The Old Curiosity Shop is also one of the most exhausting books I've read for the podcast.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...Type: Review | Book: The Old Curiosity Shop | Writer: Charles Dickens