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Title: Dated
Review: For some reason I missed Dickens when I was a child, so I decided to catch up on one of the great works of the English canon. I'm sorry -- I know that by critical accord he's one of the finest and most influential of all English writers. And I understand the important work that he did in publicising social justice causes such as child labour. But I find his prose ornate and contrived, his plot slow-moving and predictable, and his characters implausibly one-dimensional. In my opinion Dickens does not pass the test of time.
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