Hard Times is a book written by a man called Charles Dickens, the name HARD times, COKETOWN and Charles DICKENS is just asking for trouble, the story is made to look intelegent by adding loads of complex relations, which actually are worth total crap, and are of no importance what-so-ever. It may contain some hot bitches but that's about all your going to find while wading through the crap that is the other 99% of the book. The best part of it is, it's given to teenage kids in school.