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Re: Camilla Send a noteboard - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM
I've read most of his novels, plus A CHRISTMAS CAROL, with the exception of not yet reading EDWIN DROOD.


You should get on that.

So you have read Dombey and Our Mutual Friend (going by the impression I have of his lesser known works)?

My personal favorite, at the moment at least, is BLEAK HOUSE.


It is quite lovely. If you can learn to live with Esther.

Dickens was a master story teller, but his work was a bit uneven, which I attest mostly to him being a installation writer, being paid by the word. A lot of the stories that were published as a regular installment in a periodical just sometimes stretch and wander a bit. Still, there are large segments of his works that are simply brilliant examples of story, setting, and character.

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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1560 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1134 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1030 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1087 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 473 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1061 Views
I may have a lead Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:21:33 PM 1087 Views
But, of course. Palatine - 13/06/2011 05:13:20 PM 1088 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1000 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1039 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1064 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1146 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1124 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1144 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1050 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1146 Views
Re: i *hate* dickens. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:48:28 PM 946 Views
sorry i didn't reply - forgot about this. temeraire - 25/06/2011 02:40:51 PM 1198 Views
Only for school. Great Expectations and Hard Times. The latter was dire. *NM* Tim - 13/06/2011 06:28:24 PM 522 Views
Hard Times is one of my favorite Dickens novels Larry - 13/06/2011 11:43:18 PM 1029 Views
Have you noticed how many Dickens titles would make good names for porn movies? Tom - 14/06/2011 03:29:30 AM 1029 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1057 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1130 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1057 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1063 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1084 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 961 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1063 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1178 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1050 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1042 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1004 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1131 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1023 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1032 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1179 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 660 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 487 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 1051 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1066 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1116 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1132 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1006 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1092 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 937 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1007 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1037 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 998 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 05:03:36 PM 1131 Views
They are Larry - 14/06/2011 07:23:38 PM 1088 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 993 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 993 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1024 Views
Yes. It's one of his more complex and rewarding novels. Larry - 15/06/2011 01:19:51 AM 930 Views
It is good Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:50:56 AM 1098 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1091 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1031 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1022 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 979 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 949 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1078 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1086 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 974 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1033 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1064 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1060 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1018 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 915 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1120 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1032 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:12:35 AM 926 Views
Re: A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 04:05:08 PM 1147 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1077 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 922 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1046 Views
why bother/ They made them all into movies *NM* random thoughts - 15/06/2011 06:09:35 PM 479 Views
Have you seen any Dickens? *NM* Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:37 PM 456 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1116 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 912 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1170 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1051 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1244 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:04:35 PM 1154 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:06:18 PM 1197 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 442 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1024 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1153 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1073 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1247 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1232 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1242 Views
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