i read oliver twist by charles dickens last night for the 5th time.

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i love books that rip your heart out, but stick them right back in.  it’s called contrast, and we thrive off of it.

“i want s’more!” but it’s finals week and i need to shut it and get back to physics!

Set against London’s seedy backstreet slums.  OLIVER TWIST is the saga of a workhouse orphan captured and thrust into a thieves’ den, where some of Dickens’ most depraved villains preside: the incorrigible Artful Dodger, the murderous bully Sikes, and the terrible Fagin, that treacherous ringleader whose grinning knavery threatens to send them all to the “ghastly gallows.”  Yet at the heart of this drama is the orphan Oliver, whose unsullied goodness leads him at last to salvation.

you haven’t lived until you’ve read this book.