Title: A chore instead of a pleasure
Product review: I have never reviewed a book on Amazon before, but after two weeks of intense reading and note-taking, I have finally finished this book and have strong feelings about it: Although it provides good historical detail about daily life in nineteenth-century England (especially for the poor), I would not recommend it to anyone. Surely there are many other books with such detail that are not as grueling to read. My paperback edition has over 1,200 pages containing hundreds of characters, the backgrounds of all the family members of at least six different family lines, and an extremely convoluted plot. I love "getting lost" in a long novel, but about halfway through this one, I felt as if the author were presenting his readers with a test of endurance rather than a story to be enjoyed.
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