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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 1820 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1419 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1300 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1349 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 596 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1308 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1342 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1349 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1280 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1305 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1332 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1424 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1400 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1457 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1306 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1425 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1176 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1452 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 658 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1274 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1273 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1295 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1410 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1311 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1358 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1436 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1230 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1404 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1425 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1331 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1293 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1275 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1386 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1276 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1299 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1430 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 785 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 617 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 1332 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1330 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1400 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1389 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1282 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1372 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1196 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1303 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1321 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1268 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1406 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1360 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1241 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1277 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1285 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1184 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1356 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1365 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1297 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1356 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1259 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1253 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1301 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1355 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1243 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1261 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1340 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1315 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1292 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1173 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1418 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1298 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1180 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1447 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1323 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1231 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1316 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 618 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 589 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1401 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1190 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1460 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1290 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1529 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1405 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1450 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 554 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1306 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1403 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1336 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1527 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1534 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1497 Views
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