Sorry, I just wanted to have a little play on words there.
YES!
I have read A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. I also have David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop and Oliver Twist but haven't gotten around to reading them just yet.
I've heard of all of them, though asking me to recite them would invariably lead me to forget one or two. Off the top of my head I can think of Nicholas Nickleby (or however that's spelled), Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Edwin Drood, The Pickwick Papers...they all have weird names.
We make choices in what we read, and in what order.
Uneven as an author - some stuff is good and some is not as good. A bit stilted in the prose department. I think part of it is that I just don't like these installation-novels from the Nineteenth Century.
I saw "Great Expectations" with Gwyneth Paltrow (she was good there, but I think I could marry Margot Tenenbaum...but I digress). I seem to remember watching the first half of Oliver! but not the second half, and of course who hasn't seen at least one version of A Christmas Carol?
Have you read any Dickens?
YES!
What have you read?
I have read A Tale of Two Cities, Bleak House, Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol. I also have David Copperfield, The Old Curiosity Shop and Oliver Twist but haven't gotten around to reading them just yet.
Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?
I've heard of all of them, though asking me to recite them would invariably lead me to forget one or two. Off the top of my head I can think of Nicholas Nickleby (or however that's spelled), Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend, Edwin Drood, The Pickwick Papers...they all have weird names.
Why have you not read them?
We make choices in what we read, and in what order.
What is your perception of Dickens?
Uneven as an author - some stuff is good and some is not as good. A bit stilted in the prose department. I think part of it is that I just don't like these installation-novels from the Nineteenth Century.
Have you seen any film/series versions of Dickens' novels?
I saw "Great Expectations" with Gwyneth Paltrow (she was good there, but I think I could marry Margot Tenenbaum...but I digress). I seem to remember watching the first half of Oliver! but not the second half, and of course who hasn't seen at least one version of A Christmas Carol?
Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?
Damn I wish I could remember it. It's a word that no one uses and when I saw it I thought it was a misprint of "prevaricate" because it was obviously along the same lines in meaning, but it was like perstication or pervastication or something like that.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
- 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM
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What the dickens?!
- 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM
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Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually.
- 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM
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But, of course.
- 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM
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i *hate* dickens.
- 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM
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Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM*
- 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM
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Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies?
- 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
- 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM
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That's easy. No.
- 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM
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Re: That's easy. No.
- 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM
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only great expectations
- 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM
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Very un-dickensian answers
- 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM
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- 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM
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Please tell me they haven't started letting people out of High School without making them read CD?
- 13/06/2011 10:16:10 PM
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What in the dickens prompted this survey?
- 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM
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- 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM
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Can you please find that word?
- 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM
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I'm fairly well-read in this regard
- 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM
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- 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
- 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM
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Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
- 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM
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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
- 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM
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- 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM
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A few works
- 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM
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Re: A few works
- 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM
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- 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM
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- 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM
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- 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM
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