I wonder if I would have enjoyed this book more if I had read it in one go instead of taking several months long breaks in between, especially because I did enjoy my first reading of it. Dickens was a raging racist who has publicly talked about wanting to exterminate the Indian population so I don’t really have a high opinion of him. His writing style gets tiresome with continued reading (he did get paid by the word as we all know). It’s like eating candy, you enjoy the first one, maybe even the second, but if you have to continually eat fifty in a row, you are sick by the end.