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i *hate* dickens. temeraire Send a noteboard - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM

Have you read any Dickens?

What have you read?



yes - great expectations, tale or two cities (only read... the first page...) and one other one, don't remember the name

Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?


uh. sure? i tend to not think about them.

Why have you not read them?


boring, awful books.

What is your perception of Dickens?


horrid, terrible character development, horrible writing, boring ass descriptions. blech.

Have you seen any film/series versions of Dickens' novels?


no.

Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?


dread. also, dreary.

that is not to say i dislike other older english lit. i love jane austen, virginia woolf and whatnot. i adore shakespeare... i mostly dislike classics anyway, though. ofrom everywhere. i hated moby dick. fully boring. it's why i wasn't an english major. i adore books and writing and whatnot. i have a ba in creative writing and a minor in latin american literature and culture... and one in linguistics. and an ma in ling. i studied old and middle english, old irish and old norse. i adore the ancient stories and tales and everything of that age. :) anyway.... yeah. i guess i'm not helping your class designing. though maybe you can figure out how to make dickens less terrible for your students. though i figure if you're teaching at a uni they actually want to take the course?
"it's like the real world, except there's dragons!"

cw, you are missed...
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1674 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1252 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1141 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1194 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 520 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1169 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1203 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1199 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1122 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1145 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1186 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1253 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1235 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1272 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1155 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1268 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1034 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1311 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 568 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1138 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1109 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1145 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1242 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1167 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1177 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1201 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1066 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1224 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1292 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1162 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1150 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1127 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1237 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1126 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1150 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1280 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 708 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 538 Views
Please tell me they haven't started letting people out of High School without making them read CD? Cannoli - 13/06/2011 10:16:10 PM 1163 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1173 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1230 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1257 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1122 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1201 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1049 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1138 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1146 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1117 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1237 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1193 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1101 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1116 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1140 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1044 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1207 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1208 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1150 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1203 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1089 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1065 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1166 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1197 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1094 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1122 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1178 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1167 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1135 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1021 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1240 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1139 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1040 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1303 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1196 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1040 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1165 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 539 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 509 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1233 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1032 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1288 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1152 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1360 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1246 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1298 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 491 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1148 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1272 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1189 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1368 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1343 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1357 Views
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