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sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire Send a noteboard - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM

Do you remember what it was about?


i don't really... it may have been oliver twist, though.

Why did you stop after the first page of Tale of Two Cities?


there was nothing that touched me personally about it. at that time i hated my english teacher. he had just tried to have us read moby dick. i got halfway through that. and seriously, i love reading. just not those books at that time... it could have had more to do with the fact that i was a teenager going through all the emotional and hormonal changes a teenager goes through than anything about those books. i loved (*loved!*) the baroque cycle when i was 26, but i know i wouldn't have liked it at all at 16. so there's that.

I see I should have phrased the question more clearly. Which ones have you heard of?


i suppose the main ones, great expectations, tale of two ciies, oliver twist.

How do you know?


i don't - it's only an assumption, and i might be totally wrong. no one has attempted to convince me otherwise. things get impressed upon a person really strongly when they're a teenager, too.

i didn't realize a christmas carol was dickens. i have read that and seen the older film adaptation along with the bill murray film. i love bill murray, so that was all right. i think i may have read the book, but am not sure.

"it's like the real world, except there's dragons!"

cw, you are missed...
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1899 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1486 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1398 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1431 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 632 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1381 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1407 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1417 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1364 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1387 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1408 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1519 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1474 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1531 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1378 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1506 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1250 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 698 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1349 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1347 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1358 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1487 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1393 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1446 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1512 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1300 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1483 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1502 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1403 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1357 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1345 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1464 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1346 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1378 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1514 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 826 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 653 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 1399 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1409 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1478 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1471 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1355 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1445 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1267 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1376 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1390 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1378 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1473 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1439 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1313 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1353 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1365 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1260 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1434 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1446 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1364 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1421 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1319 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1324 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1379 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 1311 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 1417 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1382 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1365 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1246 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1498 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1377 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1259 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1532 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1404 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1308 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1399 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 650 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 628 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1484 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1263 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1547 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1373 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1606 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1481 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1528 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 588 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1404 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1482 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1405 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1597 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1609 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1562 Views
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