Since this novella has survived the ages I suppose a lot of people liked it but it did not hold my interest. This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
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Please do.! After all, it's what Trotty and Meg would do. Or that you'll be donating food for the hungry. Trust me when I say that perhaps you'll be stuffing a dollar into that bell ringer's tin can outside the store this year. And the prose! God, how Dickens can write! Every bit of squalor and poverty, of filth and suffering is brought through with his choice of words. With Armitage, however, it's beautiful and heartfelt. Does she deserve it? It's a painful, painful listen, and with any other narrator besides Richard Armitage, it comes off as heavy-handed. This is one of three versions I have, and trust me: It's the best! (Really! Dickens on Dickens is downright scary!) Trotty Veck's soul is tested at the turn of year's end: just what are the poor worth? Are they indeed worthy of being "put down" at every turn as those above him say? As he has come to believe? One night, he is "killed" and comes to see the future and everything that he believes comes to pass through his beloved daughter.
But with Armitage at the helm, we don't have to worry. Charles Dickens can be a dark, dark soul and "The Chimes" can be a dark, dark story, depending on who narrates it.
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