Scrumptious, decadent, luxuriating, sybaritic, low-brow, annoying, artificial, allusive, horny, self-conscious, pro-praxis, classist, melodramatic, realist, egalitarian, Freudian, elusive, obvious, natural, hysterical, imbecilic, contradictory: it's all about style, one that so clearly, in its effervescence and density of wit, seems have neon lit signage on every page signaling that Dickens and Rushdie, among many others, have more than a bit of a debt to Fielding. The plot bored me at times, but I REALLY latched on to the novel's voice.

5/5 for style style style.
3.5/5 for plot.

Wonderfully of and ahead of its time.