The one hundred and twenty-second book: #1019 The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
Okay, I give up on this one. There are some books where getting through becomes a struggle. I know Dickens has a tendency to overdo his writing - writing for serialization, he had to keep people coming back, while editing doesn't always seem to have been the most important. Nicholas Nickleby was written shortly after Oliver Twist, and there's a similar build up that seems to get in the way. But where there was some more fun stuff, here it feels like there's more of the same that doesn't work as well. There's a core of some interesting scenes here, but I just never managed to get on board with the story.