I have always disliked Dickens and I am really hating this reader (Frederick Davidson), but I made a deal with a friend that if she read Michael Ondaatje, I would read a Dickens book. I thought it would be less painful in audiobook form, but the narrator’s delivery is so over-the-top. He makes all the characters even flatter and less human than Dickens did. Hate, hate, hate. And something like ten more hours to go!