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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 1972 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1560 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1522 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1546 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 682 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1456 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1500 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1516 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1461 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1479 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1493 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1600 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1553 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1627 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1470 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1590 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1335 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1605 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 742 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1428 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1432 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1430 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1566 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1483 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1547 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1594 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1395 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1577 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1575 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1507 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1436 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1433 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1564 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1442 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1457 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1624 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 874 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 704 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 1490 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1522 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1578 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1572 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1439 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1540 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1345 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1455 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1465 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1502 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1572 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1540 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1395 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1449 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1452 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1361 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1519 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1527 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1444 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1529 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1406 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1417 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1471 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1521 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1400 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1478 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1510 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1478 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1477 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1352 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1596 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1470 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1346 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1628 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1483 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1397 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1486 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 708 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 671 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1570 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1344 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1631 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1477 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1698 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1565 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1615 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 632 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1499 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1559 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1482 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1694 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1686 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1653 Views
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