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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 1942 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1526 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1480 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1487 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 659 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1422 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1451 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1465 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1427 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1433 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1459 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1568 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1517 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1580 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1439 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1550 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1303 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1567 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 724 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1395 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1394 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1398 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1533 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1447 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1492 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1558 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1349 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1524 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1540 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1447 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1402 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1401 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1514 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1391 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1427 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1568 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 849 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 679 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 1443 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1466 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1540 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1534 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1403 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1491 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1313 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1423 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1430 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1460 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1533 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1480 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1362 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1405 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1416 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1313 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1484 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1494 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1412 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1476 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1367 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1364 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1425 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1478 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1357 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1437 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1467 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1437 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1420 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1299 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1548 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1423 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1307 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1580 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1446 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1360 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1446 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 682 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 653 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1529 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1309 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1599 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1427 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1654 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1530 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1575 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 614 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1463 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1525 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1447 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1644 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1648 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1619 Views
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