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I really enjoyed The Master and Margarita as well. It was a bit hard going at times, but it's so rich in imagery and possible meaning that I found it worth ploughing through. I saw a very good stage adaptation halfway through which actually did help me to visualise it quite well and which gave me a point of comparison which might have smoothed the way a bit.
Either way, it has made reading Great Expectations now an absolute breeze, and I'm really enjoying it. I'd only read Hard Times before, and I'd forgotten just how much wit and colour Dickens writes with, and how amazingly well he shapes his characters. I think he's done a disservice by the fact that everyone remembers the stereotypes of Fagin, Oliver, Scrooge and Gradgrind, even if they do remember them favourably, because Pip, Joe and Biddy in GE are so well realised.