Charles Dickens

[AchtungBaby]

I'm finishing up my first Dickens novel (aside from A Christmas Carol back in middle school), Hard Times. I loved it and will definitely be working my way through the rest of Dickens's oeuvre (most of which are on my bookshelf now).

Any other Dickens fans? Any particular favorite novels?

 

[Dana Jean]

I'm finishing up my first Dickens novel (aside from A Christmas Carol back in middle school), Hard Times. I loved it and will definitely be working my way through the rest of Dickens's oeuvre (most of which are on my bookshelf now).

Any other Dickens fans? Any particular favorite novels?

A Christmas Carol is good. I loved A Tale of Two Cities.

 

[Kurben]

Have not read all but some and i have mixed feelings. Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield my faves. Great expectations is supposed to be great but i never really fell for it. Haven't read Hard Times.

 

[skimom2]

My personal favorite is David Copperfield, then Oliver Twist. I'm with Kurben--not a huge fan of Great Expectations. I liked A Christmas Carol and Tale of Two Cities (though it's been so long since I read that one that I don't remember much of it).

 

[Dana Jean]

Have not read all but some and i have mixed feelings. Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield my faves. Great expectations is supposed to be great but i never really fell for it. Haven't read Hard Times.

I liked David Cooperfield and Oliver Twist. And I agree with you both, Great Expectations was a lot of words for a story I didn't give a rat's behind about.

 

[Kurben]

Oh, i forgot about the Pickwick Papers. I liked that one.

 

[AchtungBaby]

What about Bleak House? I'm thinking of reading it soon. Or maybe Our Mutual Friend.

 

[skimom2]

What about Bleak House? I'm thinking of reading it soon. Or maybe Our Mutual Friend.

I just picked up a copy of Bleak House at the library book sale, but I've not read it yet. I heard the BBC adaptation with Gillian Anderson was incredible--I'm thinking of watching that first.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist....not a big fan of this era, unless it involves Sherlock and Dr. Watson....

 

[muskrat]

Oh, i forgot about the Pickwick Papers. I liked that one.

Yer Bugger!

PICKWICK and Tale of Two Cities for me.

 

[Spideyman]

A Tale of Two Cities/A Christmas Carol

 

[muskrat]

About got ol Nicholas Nickleby polished off. Ah! Here is richness! Gets a little far out what with all the coincidental meetings of unrelated characters, but whataya gonna do? Thinkin I'm gonna be stuck on a Dickens kick for awhile.

 

[Kurben]

About got ol Nicholas Nickleby polished off. Ah! Here is richness! Gets a little far out what with all the coincidental meetings of unrelated characters, but whataya gonna do? Thinkin I'm gonna be stuck on a Dickens kick for awhile.

Havent read Nicholas Nickleby. Are you thinking i should do the effort?

 

[muskrat]

Havent read Nicholas Nickleby. Are you thinking i should do the effort?

Oh yeah. If you like Dickens at all, youll like this.

 

[Owenk]

I have never got on with Dickens. Too wordy for me, He got paid to write thigns in instalments for magazines and so the more words the better.

I can completely see what people love in him, his descriptions are astonishing but just doesn't do it for me. Although I do love A Christmas Carol as my Grampy used to read it top me every Christmas.

It may be that I did a course devoted to Dickens as part of my degree and trying to get through a novel a week the length of Little Dorrit and then write an essay on them may have scarred me. Perhaps I shoudl revisit them.

 

[Kurben]

Oh yeah. If you like Dickens at all, youll like this.

Sounds good. I loved Christmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist etc but was bored by Great Expectations.

 

[mal]

I read my first Dickens about a year ago. The Pickwick Papers. It was funny as hell! I've since read Oliver Twist, which was great. I am currently reading Our Mutual Friend which I find very interesting. Enjoy, mal.

 

[muskrat]

I have never got on with Dickens. Too wordy for me, He got paid to write thigns in instalments for magazines and so the more words the better.

Yeah, some of his stuff, especially the earlier works, are overwritten to the point of nausea, yet, having read quite a bit of Victorian lit, from Grub Street penny rags such as Varney the Vampire to tales of urban poverty by the brilliant George Reynolds--having read all this, I'm rather used to it, by the by, as one becomes accustomed to an over-abundance of spicy foods until, at last, his palate cannot tolerate lesser foodstuffs, and, ultimately, one finds himself, much like a ravenous pulp worm, gobbling up each and every humbug; if, that is, humbugs are what one's palate has been conditioned to crave.

Heh heh. If commas did not exist, ol Boz would have had to invent them.

 

[staropeace]

I just picked up a copy of Bleak House at the library book sale, but I've not read it yet. I heard the BBC adaptation with Gillian Anderson was incredible--I'm thinking of watching that first.

Bleak House is very bleak.

 

[skimom2]

Bleak House is very bleak.

well named, then