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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla Send a noteboard - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM
I am constructing a course on Dickens, and so started wondering what I could expect people to have read. I would therefore be very happy if you could reply even if you haven't read anything.

Have you read any Dickens?

Yes

What have you read?

Great Expectations & A Tale of Two Cities (although that latter I read in high school and don't remember much of it)

Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?

Sure,Oliver Twist and David Copperfield off the top of my head. Plus he did A Christmas Carol and a similar story about and insect and a hearth I think.


Cricket, yes.

Why have you not read them?

If I made excusses for every book I haven't read I would do nothing else.


I wasn't looking for excuses so much as reasons. What I mean is that the question was not meant as a reproach; it was an attempt to find out reasons why Dickens may be selected out of a reading list or bumped downwards.

What is your perception of Dickens?

A bit on the dry side. I remember reading an abridged version of Great Expectations in high school and enjoying it, but I found the full novel to be much drier when I read it years later.

Have you seen any film/series versions of Dickens' novels?

A Christmas Carol, and I wouldn't be surprised if I have seen something else, but I don't recall for sure. Maybe Oliver Twist in school?

Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?

Dry.
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1673 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1251 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1140 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1193 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 519 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1168 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1202 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1197 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1121 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1143 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1183 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1251 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1234 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1270 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1154 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1266 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1033 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1310 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 568 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1137 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1108 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1145 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1241 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1166 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1176 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1199 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1065 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1223 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1291 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1161 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1149 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1126 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1236 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1125 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1149 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1280 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 707 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 538 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 1162 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1172 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1230 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1256 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1121 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1201 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1048 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1138 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1146 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1115 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1236 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1192 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1101 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1114 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1139 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1043 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1207 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1208 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1149 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1203 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1086 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1064 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1165 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1196 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1093 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1121 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1177 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1166 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1135 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1020 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1238 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1138 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1040 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1303 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1196 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1039 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1164 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 539 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 508 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1230 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1030 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1287 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1152 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1358 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1246 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1297 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 490 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1147 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1271 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1188 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1367 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1341 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1355 Views
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