On turnbuckles

Well, I finished reading Oliver Twist, and was quite disappointed. I mean, it's one of Charles Dickens's most famous and beloved novels. I expected a lot more excitement from it. First of all, Oliver Twist himself is a pathetic character after the first quarter of the book. He asserts himself by running away (walking) to London, but after that he does nothing to affect events. Lucky for him he's taken in by Fagin and the 2 other child thieves target a man who turns out to be a family friend. And then he's taken to help burglarize the house of somebody else who takes him in. At the end there's some family tree complications that mean very little. I couldn't follow them. I knew everything would turn out all right for Twist. This book is 99% carried by the bad guys, Fagin and his gang, Bill Sykes and his girlfriend Nancy. It's the scenes in the dirty, rough, drunken turnbuckles areas of London that keep this book alive.