![]() ![]() Frankly, I think that Edwin Drood giving her up was a good job. The only character I wasn't keen on was Rosa Bud (ugh, name). (For my part, I believe that there has been no murder, and that Edwin Drood has vanished for his own reasons, to return later.) One of the joys of the book is the setting: Cloisterham (read: Rochester) is vividly evoked, to the point where it is easy to imagine the setting. ![]() One can easily see why a few generations of readers have strained to come up with solutions for the mystery set by Dickens, since it is an intriguing one. The pacing is good throughout, with perhaps the one exception of the sequence involving a dim London landlady that was nearly the last thing Dickens wrote. This novel, albeit unfinished, doesn't really suffer from that problem. For the most part, I've liked the Dickens novels I've read Bleak House is possibly the biggest exception, largely because that novel started to get bogged down about half-way through. ![]()
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