Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually.
Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM
Have you read any Dickens?
I have not. I do own a copy of Oliver Twist though.
What have you read?
Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?
Just so. A Christmas Carol of course, everyone knows that one. At the moment I can also think of Bleak House, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, Hard Times, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Why have you not read them?
They're not high enough on my priority list given my limited reading time. I have some interest in them given that they're classics, but not enough to get past that first thing. I was never given any as assigned reading in any classes, including several first and second year university English literature classes.
I sympathise. I think a lot of teachers are hesitant about putting the good Dickens stuff on reading lists simply because they are so long. People keep reading A Christmas Carol, but not all that many others.
What is your perception of Dickens?
Wordy, likely because of how he wrote and was paid for the books. Lots of characters. And for some reason I think of chimney sweepers.
When you say you know how he was paid, what do you mean?
I don't know where the chimney sweepers comes from.
Have you seen any film/series versions of Dickens' novels?
Multiple versionf of A Christmas Carol, and one version of Oliver Twist.
Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?
Chimney sweepers.
Interesting.
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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*
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Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies?
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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.
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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
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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?
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What in the dickens prompted this survey?
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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
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A few works
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Re: A few works
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