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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 2 1 2 #209884 - 03/02/13 09:02 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Tromboniator]   Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK I'm sorry to hear that, Trombo! I'll agree that some of his lengthy descriptive passages are tedious - fairly obviously written to fill up the pages for his latest episode to be pubilshed in the magazine that week - but I would advise that you 'skip read' those bits (there is sometimes important information contained within the descriptions!) The stories always come to a satisfactory end - now and again a bitmawkish, but that was Dickens satisfying his Victorian public. On the whole, and despite some stylistic deficiencies (from a modernist point of view!) he is a very fine writer and many of his ideas are as current today as they were then! I'm immortal until proven otherwise #210212 - 04/02/13 11:54 AM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Rhubarb Commando]   Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Alaska I was force-fed David Copperfield, tried Great Expectations (twice) and never got past page 14. I was told repeatedly, "Oh, but you must read A Tale of Two Cities. It's different. You'll love it." Well, it wasn't, and I didn't. That's the one that flew. There were other attempts, but I've forgotten what they were. There's no doubt of his brilliance, but I just can't get past the style and, as you say, the mawkishness. My hopes are dimming for finding a Dickens I can appreciate. #210214 - 04/02/13 03:18 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont that's what movies are for. ;¬ ) formerly known as etaoin... #210217 - 04/02/13 03:27 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,974 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8,974 Land of the Flat Water You took the words out of my mouth. I have many of them on DVD. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #210222 - 04/02/13 08:24 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Alaska Yeah, but that doesn't scratch the same itch. #210224 - 04/02/13 08:40 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Tromboniator]   Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando   old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK There is nodoubt that Dickens is a writer - like Marmite - that you either love or hate! My dear wife was of the same opinion as you, Peter, deapite allmy proletysing. I'm sure that a Freudian Analysist would make something out of it, but then - they always do, don't they? I'm immortal until proven otherwise #210227 - 04/02/13 10:08 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: Rhubarb Commando]   Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator   old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 958 Alaska I'm afraid I've never read Marmite ( ), but perhaps here in the West we can learn to appreciate the wonders of the Yeast. #210242 - 04/04/13 03:22 PM Re: Social intercourse..Dickensian [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont heh formerly known as etaoin... Page 2 of 2 1 2 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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