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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 1783 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1392 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1266 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1321 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 580 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1273 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1309 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1322 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1248 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1272 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1304 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1390 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1363 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1408 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1278 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1388 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1139 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1423 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 639 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1251 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1240 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1265 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1371 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1286 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1322 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1388 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1205 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1374 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1392 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1285 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1267 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1239 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1344 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1238 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1263 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1402 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 770 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 601 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 1297 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1296 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1369 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1369 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1254 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1338 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1160 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1275 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1288 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1235 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1357 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1328 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1215 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1247 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1250 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1150 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1329 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1334 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1264 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1320 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1226 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1223 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1271 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1318 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1217 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1235 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1312 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1282 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1258 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 1134 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1389 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1268 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1149 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1415 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1301 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1202 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1288 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 602 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 571 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1373 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 1161 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1434 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1259 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1498 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1367 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1419 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 539 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1279 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1378 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1308 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1494 Views
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Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1467 Views
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