Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
This was on my currently-reading list but I can't say I was reading it. I'd picked up a sound recording at the library, thinking it was an audiobook. Instead if was a dramatization of the story, greatly abridged, with voice actors and sound effects.
Once I started listening, I couldn't stop. And now the book is ruined for me--I know the ending!
Okay, that last comment was an overdramatization. I'd still enjoy reading the book--I know they left out pages and pages of the stuff Dickens does best--vivid characterization, droll humor, and melodramatic observations in the author's omniscient voice. A Dickens book is a lot more than story, however good the story may be.
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