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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 1900 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1487 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1399 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1433 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 634 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1382 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1408 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1418 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1366 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1389 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1410 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1520 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1475 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1532 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1380 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1508 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1252 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1522 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 699 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1350 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1348 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1359 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1488 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1395 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1448 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1513 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1301 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1484 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1503 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1404 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1359 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1347 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1466 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1347 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1380 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1515 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 827 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 655 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 1400 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1411 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1480 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1473 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1356 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1446 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1269 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1377 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1391 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1379 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1475 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1440 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1315 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1354 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1367 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1261 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1435 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1447 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1365 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1423 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1321 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1325 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1381 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1437 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1312 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1364 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1418 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1383 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1367 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1247 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1499 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1378 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1260 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1534 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1405 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1310 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1401 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 652 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 629 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1486 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1264 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1548 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1375 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1608 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1483 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1530 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 589 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1406 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1484 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1406 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1599 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1610 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1563 Views
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