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Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 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


Do you remember what it was about?
Why did you stop after the first page of Tale of Two Cities?

Have you heard of any (other) Dickens novels?

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


I see I should have phrased the question more clearly. Which ones have you heard of?

Why have you not read them?

boring, awful books.


How do you know?

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?
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1638 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1215 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1107 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1160 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 1136 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1168 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1167 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1089 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1109 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1147 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1217 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1200 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 1125 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1228 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 999 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1274 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 552 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 1073 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1108 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 1138 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1142 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1165 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 1033 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1162 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1257 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1132 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1113 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1085 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1203 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1093 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1113 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1249 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 695 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 524 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 1128 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1139 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1198 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1223 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1089 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1168 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 1017 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1091 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1115 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1080 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1206 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1158 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 1071 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 1084 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1107 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 1011 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1172 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1174 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1114 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1108 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 1057 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 1036 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1128 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1165 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 1060 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1087 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1139 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1136 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1104 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 991 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1206 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1105 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 1003 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1230 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1160 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 1005 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1130 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 494 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1197 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 1255 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1120 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1329 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1217 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1270 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 1112 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 1334 Views
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