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Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin Send a noteboard - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM
I wasn't looking for excuses so much as reasons. What I mean is that the question was not meant as a reproach; it was an attempt to find out reasons why Dickens may be selected out of a reading list or bumped downwards.


Sorry, that is not exactly how I meant to come off. I simply mean that I have always found other things to read. I was supposed to read Oliver Twist in high school but, like many books I was assigned, I read little of it. The two that I have read both appealed to me for various reasons (one because of the abridged version and the other because of its connection to Star Trek II). While I do read classics now from time to time, I have never felt the impulse to pick up one of the others by him. I still have plenty of other classics sitting on my shelf waiting a turn. Perhaps when I have finished some of the others (such as Poe, Austin, Shakespeare, and Faulkner) I will pick up another book by Dickens and give it a go.
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Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 13/06/2011 04:46:11 PM 1561 Views
What the dickens?! Nate - 13/06/2011 05:04:20 PM 1136 Views
Re: What the dickens?! -->an expression to be found already in Shakespeare, actually. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:41:08 PM 1031 Views
Re: Pay Nate - 14/06/2011 06:13:33 PM 1089 Views
P.S. Shakespeare was probably a time traveller. *NM* Nate - 14/06/2011 06:16:30 PM 474 Views
Re: Pay Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:29:49 PM 1062 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 1089 Views
Re: But, of course. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:42:34 PM 1001 Views
Re: But, of course. Palatine - 14/06/2011 05:42:36 PM 1040 Views
Yes. Rebekah - 13/06/2011 05:19:05 PM 1066 Views
Re: Yes. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:45:04 PM 1149 Views
Re: Yes. Rebekah - 14/06/2011 09:01:07 PM 1127 Views
I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Legolas - 13/06/2011 05:22:33 PM 1146 Views
Re: I'm gonna guess it varies widely. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:46:41 PM 1051 Views
i *hate* dickens. temeraire - 13/06/2011 05:45:05 PM 1148 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 1201 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 1030 Views
I am not a fan of Hard Times, either. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:49:02 PM 1059 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Darth_Katie - 13/06/2011 06:55:44 PM 1132 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:50:57 PM 1060 Views
Yes, but it's one concept! Darth_Katie - 14/06/2011 06:58:45 PM 1064 Views
That's easy. No. Wibble - 13/06/2011 07:13:59 PM 1085 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:52:02 PM 962 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Wibble - 14/06/2011 10:26:02 PM 1065 Views
Re: That's easy. No. Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:29:04 PM 1179 Views
Oh... jh - 13/06/2011 07:24:02 PM 1053 Views
Re: Oh... Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:53:15 PM 1043 Views
only great expectations Foxhead - 13/06/2011 09:37:39 PM 1006 Views
Re: only great expectations Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:54:29 PM 1131 Views
mmmm Foxhead - 14/06/2011 03:53:15 PM 1024 Views
Very un-dickensian answers Stephen - 13/06/2011 09:40:17 PM 1033 Views
Re: Very un-dickensian answers Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:56:34 PM 1181 Views
That was meant to be a pithy sarcastic comment. *NM* Stephen - 14/06/2011 06:17:45 PM 661 Views
Shocking. *NM* Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:26:09 PM 488 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 1052 Views
In which country? Camilla - 14/06/2011 02:59:04 PM 1067 Views
What in the dickens prompted this survey? Tom - 13/06/2011 11:15:19 PM 1117 Views
Re: What in the dickens prompted this survey? Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:02:22 PM 1134 Views
Can you please find that word? Tom - 15/06/2011 05:17:12 AM 1008 Views
Re: Can you please find that word? Camilla - 15/06/2011 08:05:58 AM 1095 Views
None of those. It was a thoroughly odd word. Tom - 15/06/2011 02:25:31 PM 938 Views
I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 13/06/2011 11:38:06 PM 1009 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:03:39 PM 1039 Views
Re: I'm fairly well-read in this regard Larry - 14/06/2011 04:59:11 PM 1001 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 1089 Views
Re: They are Camilla - 14/06/2011 09:18:38 PM 994 Views
Some were, but most were short fictions or short novels Larry - 14/06/2011 11:09:53 PM 996 Views
I'm considering picking up Our Mutual Friend. Yay or nay? *NM* RandAllThor - 15/06/2011 12:43:52 AM 1026 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 1101 Views
Yes nossy - 14/06/2011 12:23:19 AM 1093 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:08 PM 1032 Views
Yes Ryan - 14/06/2011 05:49:06 AM 1024 Views
Re: Yes Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:05:40 PM 982 Views
Jacob - 14/06/2011 01:21:12 PM 950 Views
Re: Camilla - 14/06/2011 03:07:19 PM 1080 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? ClubCaved - 14/06/2011 05:45:06 PM 1087 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 06:24:49 PM 977 Views
Edwin Drood Ending ClubCaved - 15/06/2011 03:55:01 PM 1036 Views
Garfield and Forsyte Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:12:20 PM 1065 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Werthead - 14/06/2011 08:35:41 PM 1063 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 14/06/2011 10:12:34 PM 1020 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? DrJacJacMcScrumptious - 15/06/2011 12:04:15 AM 916 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 15/06/2011 07:51:53 AM 1121 Views
A few works Praziquantel - 15/06/2011 07:05:56 AM 1034 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 1149 Views
Re: A few works Camilla - 15/06/2011 05:11:43 PM 1078 Views
What the Dickens? snoopcester - 15/06/2011 05:15:57 PM 923 Views
Re: What the Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:18:10 PM 1048 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 457 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Maria - 17/06/2011 04:26:04 PM 1117 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:19:47 PM 915 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 19/06/2011 01:14:30 PM 1172 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Camilla - 19/06/2011 01:17:01 PM 1054 Views
Re: Have you read anything by Charles Dickens? Fred Gaidin - 22/06/2011 03:00:19 AM 1246 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 1199 Views
All of them. *NM* ranagrande - 19/06/2011 05:14:01 PM 443 Views
Are you sure? Camilla - 19/06/2011 05:34:26 PM 1025 Views
Yes. ranagrande - 19/06/2011 09:44:37 PM 1153 Views
YES smaug - 27/06/2011 09:20:50 PM 1074 Views
Camilla - 28/06/2011 09:34:27 AM 1249 Views
Re: smaug - 29/06/2011 10:51:37 AM 1235 Views
Droodiana Camilla - 29/06/2011 02:24:35 PM 1244 Views
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