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.
*MySmiley*
structured procrastinator
structured procrastinator
Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM
- 1479 Views
What the dickens?!
13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM
- 1066 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually.
14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM
- 958 Views
But, of course.
13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM
- 1013 Views
i *hate* dickens.
13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM
- 1074 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM*
13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM
- 487 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies?
14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM
- 960 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM
- 1056 Views
That's easy. No.
13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM
- 1013 Views
Re: That's easy. No.
14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM
- 890 Views
only great expectations
13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM
- 938 Views
Very un-dickensian answers
13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM
- 955 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers
14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM
- 1105 Views
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
- 976 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey?
13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM
- 1040 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey?
14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM
- 1062 Views
Can you please find that word?
15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM
- 931 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard
13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM
- 939 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM
- 969 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM
- 922 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard
14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM
- 1055 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM
- 1020 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM
- 907 Views
A few works
15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM
- 964 Views
Re: A few works
15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM
- 866 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM
- 1101 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM
- 1080 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens?
19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM
- 1129 Views