Little Dorrit

I love PBS. There are so many great educational as well as entertaining shows! Gabe and I have been big fans of Nature for a long time, and always used to settle down to watch it every Sunday at 8pm, although it doesn't happen so regularly now that we've seen most of them. I love when the time comes around for them to air Masterpiece Classics again! I'm not so into the Mystery or Contemporary seasons, but then I haven't really given them much of a chance. The past 3 weeks they've been showing Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens. I am really enjoying it. I've not really read much Dickens before, and hadn't even heard of Little Dorrit before I started watching it, but of course, the BBC usually does such a great job with these productions, and after watching the first episode I decided that I just had to read it! So I looked it up on my trusty palm pilot library, and there it was! So I started reading it with the intention of finishing it before the televised production finished.
I sort of know why I haven't read Dickens before now. I am really enjoying the book, but he does write in a very round about sort of way, if you know what I mean. He's very verbose, and the excessive descriptions and tangents tend to slow the story down. I find myself skipping through certain paragraphs and pages because they're not essential to the narrative and I just want to find out what happens next. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person! I am still really enjoying the book, and I'm quite sure I will read some more of his works, but I just don't know if I'm going to have time to finish Little Dorrit before the final episode airs this Sunday.