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Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM
Sorry, I just wanted to have a little play on words there.


Nate beat you to it ;)

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.


How do you know you have heard of all of them?

Why have you not read them?

We make choices in what we read, and in what order.


Yes. I was wondering about the rationale behind the choices.

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.
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1971 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1560 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1522 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1546 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 681 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1455 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1500 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1516 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1461 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1479 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1493 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1600 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1552 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1627 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1470 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1590 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1335 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1604 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 742 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1428 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1432 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1429 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1566 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1483 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1547 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1594 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1395 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1577 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1575 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1507 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1436 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1433 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1563 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1442 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1456 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1623 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 874 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 704 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 1490 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1522 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1578 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1572 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1439 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1539 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1345 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1455 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1464 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1502 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1572 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1539 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1395 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1449 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1451 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1361 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1519 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1527 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1444 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1528 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1406 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1417 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1471 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1521 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1399 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1478 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1510 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1478 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1476 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1351 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1595 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1469 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1345 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1628 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1483 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1397 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1485 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 708 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 671 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1570 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1344 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1630 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1476 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1698 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1565 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1614 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 631 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1499 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1559 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1482 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1694 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1686 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1653 Views
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