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November 13th, 2012, 03:24 PM
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#1 | | Guardian Knight
Joined: Oct 2010 From: USA Posts: 7,762 | Paying Tribute to Charles Dickens
As one of the most influential English writers, Dickens gets my hats off. A Tale of Two Cities is my favorite of his books, and I wonder how he has touched people throughout the world.
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November 13th, 2012, 03:44 PM
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Joined: Mar 2008 From: On a mountain top in Costa Rica. yea...I win!! Posts: 10,927 |
Count me as a fan. A big time fan. A really big time fan.
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November 13th, 2012, 04:20 PM
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#3 | | Scoundrel ¤ Member of the Year ¤
Joined: Feb 2011 From: Perambulating with harlotry in St James' Park Posts: 8,097 |
Can't really say I like Dickens much, two cities wasn't bad but some of his other books are awful. Hard Times was spectacularly dull.
I also live in Rochester which is where he based many of his books, I even work in one of the buildings he mentions too. There's a Dicken's World in Chatham Dockyard too and every year people dress up in Rochester for the Dickens festival.  
The Victorian nerds have a field day.
One day I'll get a top hat...
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November 13th, 2012, 06:45 PM
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#4 | | What we have, we hold
Joined: Mar 2011 From: 6th Century Constantinople Posts: 3,334 |
Dickens fan here. The power of his writing lies in the accuracy and influence of his socio-economic commentary.
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November 13th, 2012, 06:55 PM
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#5 | | Historian
Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,313 |
Much as I admire the man himself, how he managed to dig himself out of poverty and write about themes close to his heart such as social injustice, his writing style doesn't do it for me.
[quote EoR] Hard Times was spectacularly dull.
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November 13th, 2012, 07:26 PM
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#6 | | Guardian Knight
Joined: Oct 2010 From: USA Posts: 7,762 |
Has anyone read any of his news articles? Was he effective there?
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November 13th, 2012, 07:46 PM
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#7 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2011 From: Southeast England Posts: 5,478 |
I'm not a huge fan, I like the humour in his books, but not the rather cloying sentimentality, and most of his heroines are irritatingly insipid. Great Expectations is my favourite, Pip is more interesting than most of his heroes, and I love Wemmick and the Aged P.
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November 13th, 2012, 07:47 PM
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#8 | | Historian
Joined: Jan 2011 From: Southeast England Posts: 5,478 | Quote:
Originally Posted by Earl_of_Rochester  Can't really say I like Dickens much, two cities wasn't bad but some of his other books are awful. Hard Times was spectacularly dull.
I also live in Rochester which is where he based many of his books, I even work in one of the buildings he mentions too. There's a Dicken's World in Chatham Dockyard too and every year people dress up in Rochester for the Dickens festival.
The Victorian nerds have a field day.
One day I'll get a top hat... | No.2 son has a top hat. He wears it a lot, and gets admiring comments wherever he goes.
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November 13th, 2012, 08:14 PM
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#9 | | The Snub Nosed Truth
Joined: Dec 2010 From: Oregon coastal mountains Posts: 5,408 |
Drood.
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November 13th, 2012, 08:20 PM
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#10 | | What we have, we hold
Joined: Mar 2011 From: 6th Century Constantinople Posts: 3,334 |
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jake10 Has anyone read any of his news articles? | Yes. Very.
I also recommend Sketches by Boz and American Notes. Quote:
Originally Posted by unclefred Drood. | ^^ This. One of my favourite books. Dark, angry, evil, powerful and sexy, it completely overturns all the usual stereotypes about Dickens' work. I only wish he'd lived to complete it.
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