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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 1692 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1272 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1160 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1212 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 529 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1188 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1217 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1216 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1145 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1161 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1201 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1275 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1253 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1288 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1174 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1284 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1051 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1330 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 579 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1153 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1128 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1159 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1265 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1186 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1198 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1219 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1088 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1258 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1307 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1180 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1168 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1143 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1259 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1142 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1166 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1299 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 716 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 547 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 1182 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1190 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1251 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1273 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1138 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1220 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1067 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1169 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1162 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1132 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1256 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1210 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1119 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1130 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1156 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1061 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1222 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1221 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1172 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1220 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1106 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1080 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1185 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1214 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1108 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1135 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1192 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1181 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1151 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1040 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1258 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1157 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1055 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1324 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1215 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1086 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1182 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 548 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 517 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1249 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1047 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1318 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1172 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1379 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1265 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1315 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 500 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1164 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1287 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1202 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1384 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1365 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1376 Views
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