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Re: Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM
I've read most of his novels, plus A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with the exception of not yet reading EDWIN DROOD.


You should get on that.

So you have read Dombey and Our Mutual Friend (going by the impression I have of his lesser known works)?

My personal favorite, at the moment at least, is BLEAK HOUSE.


It is quite lovely. If you can learn to live with Esther.

Dickens was a master story teller, but his work was a bit uneven, which I attest mostly to him being a installation writer, being paid by the word. A lot of the stories that were published as a regular installment in a periodical just sometimes stretch and wander a bit. Still, there are large segments of his works that are simply brilliant examples of story, setting, and character.

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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1654 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1230 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1121 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1174 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 512 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1150 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1183 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1180 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1103 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1125 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1162 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1230 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1214 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1254 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1139 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1245 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1011 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1290 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 561 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1113 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1088 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1124 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1221 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1149 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1156 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1181 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1046 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1186 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1274 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1148 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1126 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1106 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1216 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1109 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1129 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1261 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 700 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 530 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 1146 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1156 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1212 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1236 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1104 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1182 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1031 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1112 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1128 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1094 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1219 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1171 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1086 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1098 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1121 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1023 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1188 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1191 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1129 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1121 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1070 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1046 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1143 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1179 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1073 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1101 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1154 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1147 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1118 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1004 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1220 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1118 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1019 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1255 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1176 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1018 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1146 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 524 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 502 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1210 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1011 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1273 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1137 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1341 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1231 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1283 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 481 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1128 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1250 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1165 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1347 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1325 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1335 Views
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