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Bleak House

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I have been listening to several of the "classics" on my commute to work and found this recording to be highly rated and decided to give it a try. I have read many of Dickens works in the past, but had never before read Bleak House. This audio book was a treat.

The reader was David Case and I really enjoyed his ability to come up with at distinctive voice for each of the major characters. It was almost like listening to a dramatization done by several actors. He even made the women sound like women and the children sound like children. The sound quality was excellent and I found myself looking forward to my daily commute.

The story is classic Dickens. He has memorable characters and always comes up with the best names for these people. His heroes and heroines are sometimes too perfect and his villains sometimes too evil, but he manages to make them very human nevertheless.

As with all great literature, I learned or relearned several major truths and principles about myself and others as I read this book. I got a real kick out of a couple of characters that overdid charity work and it reinforced to me the concept of moderation in all things.

Since this book is so long, there was a lot of character development, which took some patience at first, but paid off in the end. I highly recommend this audio book to anyone interested in great literature.