Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens’s previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that “intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens’s other great attributes his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.”

I need to admit that I was a little bit scared of reading this book because of the size of this book and how long ago it was published. I was scared of getting into this book because I was afraid that I would hate this book. But after reading this book I need to admit that this book wasn’t bad as I thought it would have been. If you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book, then keep reading this review of mine.

The plot in this book, is pretty decent. For the most part of plot here is pretty interesting for the most part. But at times the plot in this book would drag out for way too long. Which really annoyed me a lot because the plot would have pages about stuff which didn’t matter for the plot. Because the moment does long moments come to pass they are simply forgotten and to not be talked again later in the book.

For the most part the plot in this book is pretty decent as I’ve said above. For the most part the plot here was pretty decent and fun to read. But there were also a lot of moments where the plot would focus pages on things which didn’t lead the plot anywhere.

This book is a very slow book, because there isn’t a lot which happens in this book other than getting long descriptions of things and read about people talking a lot in the old English style which people used in 1857.

The characters in this book aren’t the best. There are a lot of characters in this book and I had a really hard time keeping track of the characters and telling them apart in this book. And if you read some of my reviews in the past you will know that this a huge no-no for me personally if I have hard time telling the characters apart from each other in a book.

At the same time the characters we get in this book aren’t that good. All of the characters in this book felt to me like they were variations of the same character, because of hard time I had keeping track of the characters and because all of the characters in this book seemed very similar to each other and they didn’t have anything that would make them unique or stand out from the rest of the characters we do get in this book.

Each of the characters in this book have their separate lives which intertwine which each others during the plot line in this book. But I gotta admit even thou those characters have their own lives they still seem like the same person to me but a different backstory. 

The writing style in this book is very generic to Charles Dickens, which means that he uses a lot of words to describe things which could have been described in way less shorter form and with less words used. Charles Dickens likes to use a lot of words in his books and this book isn’t any different from his other books I’ve read.

I need to admit here that this book isn’t the best Charles Dickens book I’ve read, but at the same time it isn’t the worst. This book is very average Charles Dickens book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5