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i *hate* dickens. temeraire Send a noteboard - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM

Have you read any Dickens?

What have you read?



yes - great expectations, tale or two cities (only read... the first page...) and one other one, don't remember the name

Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?


uh. sure? i tend to not think about them.

Why have you not read them?


boring, awful books.

What is your perception of Dickens?


horrid, terrible character development, horrible writing, boring ass descriptions. blech.

Have you seen any film/series versions of Dickens' novels?


no.

Pick one word that you connect with Dickens. What is it?


dread. also, dreary.

that is not to say i dislike other older english lit. i love jane austen, virginia woolf and whatnot. i adore shakespeare... i mostly dislike classics anyway, though. ofrom everywhere. i hated moby dick. fully boring. it's why i wasn't an english major. i adore books and writing and whatnot. i have a ba in creative writing and a minor in latin american literature and culture... and one in linguistics. and an ma in ling. i studied old and middle english, old irish and old norse. i adore the ancient stories and tales and everything of that age. :) anyway.... yeah. i guess i'm not helping your class designing. though maybe you can figure out how to make dickens less terrible for your students. though i figure if you're teaching at a uni they actually want to take the course?
"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 1640 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1218 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1108 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1162 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 508 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1138 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1170 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1168 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1090 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1110 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1150 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1219 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1202 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1241 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1127 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1231 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 1000 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1276 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 553 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1100 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1075 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1109 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1202 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1140 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1143 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1168 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1035 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1164 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1258 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1133 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1115 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1087 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1205 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1096 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1116 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1251 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 696 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 525 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 1130 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1143 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1200 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1225 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1090 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1169 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1019 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1093 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1116 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1082 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1208 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1160 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1073 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1085 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1108 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1014 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1175 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1176 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1116 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1109 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1059 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1038 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1131 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1169 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1061 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1088 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1142 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1138 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1106 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 993 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1208 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1106 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1005 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1232 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1163 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1007 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1133 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 519 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 495 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1199 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 997 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1257 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1122 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1330 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1219 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1272 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 476 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1114 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1236 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1155 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1335 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1314 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1326 Views
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