Re: Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
Camilla Send a noteboard - 02/06/2010 11:21:24 PM
To what extent do you figure someone who isn't particularly familiar with Dickens and this unfinished book of his would be bothered by some of these things you bring up? Though your example about the racist liberals made sense to me, I'm familiar enough with Victorianism to see your point there.
I might read it at some point, I guess, but I think I should read a lot of other books by Simmons first - Endymion and sequel, Ilium and Olympos.
I might read it at some point, I guess, but I think I should read a lot of other books by Simmons first - Endymion and sequel, Ilium and Olympos.
I did not bring up the more Edwin Drood-specific things that annoyed me, precisely because those are things that might not annoy others as much. But while I cannot really say that I know someone more unfamiliar with Dickens would be annoyed, those things did not generally annoy me because of something I had learnt recently.
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02/06/2010 10:47:13 PM
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I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me:
02/06/2010 11:15:33 PM
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Re: I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me:
02/06/2010 11:18:23 PM
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There are (okay, were, I'm temporarily living in the 1890s...) MPs who are styled Lord, though.
02/06/2010 11:22:33 PM
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Link me, please?
02/06/2010 11:31:01 PM
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Sure.
02/06/2010 11:46:32 PM
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Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
02/06/2010 11:18:56 PM
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Re: Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
02/06/2010 11:21:24 PM
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Re: Nice review. I have a possibly difficult question...
06/06/2010 01:43:42 AM
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That Italian book
06/06/2010 09:24:47 AM
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damning review had it on my wishlist...i'll be taking it off
03/06/2010 05:29:42 PM
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Re: damning review had it on my wishlist...i'll be taking it off
03/06/2010 05:36:06 PM
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Have now finished it.
04/06/2010 04:30:48 PM
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*spoiler*
04/06/2010 04:32:19 PM
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Well, within the bounds of the story there's really nothing slanderous in that.
04/06/2010 04:43:34 PM
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Re: Well, within the bounds of the story there's really nothing slanderous in that.
04/06/2010 04:56:35 PM
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