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Last Minute Book Report: Oliver Twist

Comedian Jo Firestone tries to guess what's up with Charles Dickens' orphaned character—without reading the book.

By Abbe Wright • 4 years ago
Last Minute Book Report

We asked Jo Firestone, comedian and co-creator of the Punderdome card game, to skim Oliver Twist in ten minutes, then give us a “book report.” She knows the main character’s name is Oliver, but apart from that, she gets a lot wrong. (Uh, Jo, he’s not an artist.)

See what she gets wrong—and right!—below.

Read Charles Dickens’ “zero-to-hero” classic, then attempt to explain the plot a little more clearly than Jo does.

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