[ SECRET POST #4438 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4438 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I had to take a course on Dickens in college. I liked most of the books we read (including Great Expectations), but I hated A Tale of Two Cities. Most people liked that one though and hated Great Expectations.

[(Anonymous)]

Of the Dickens I've read, A Tale Of Two Cities is his most literary work. By which I mean it's more focused on social and political issues and ideas than his other works, while his other works are more focused on fictional characters having adventures, while the social and political issues and ideas are there, but secondary.

I'm sure someone whose more into lit-crit than I am could easily make the argument that ATOTC is his most important and challenging work. However, I personally found it the driest and least enjoyable.

[(Anonymous)]

Did they cover what a shit human he was? Most of my Brit Lit profs has such a hard on for Dickhead and would skip that he was human garbage. He blamed his wife for getting older and for them having so many children. He would constantly threaten her with divorce which would leave her penniless and not being able to even see their children. He badmouthed Catherine to anyone who would listen. Wrote love letters to his underage sister in law and the list goes on and on.

[(Anonymous)]

I hated his books and was so relieved to discover that he was a crap human being as well. I mean, it was awful for his wife and kids, but it showed that my radar was working well (at the time.)

[(Anonymous)]

SA In fact I think it was Great Expectations that I put down at Chapter 3 and refused to read any further. I simply made an executive decision that I'd rather fail the exam than read the book (and I was Good Student.)

As it happens, one of the other books on the syllabus was "My Family and Other Animals" which I hadn't studied but had read, so I answered that question and passed with flying colours.

[thegreymoon]

This, yes.

I hate him and all his books and am forever resentful at being forced to read any of his misogynistic tripe.

[(Anonymous)]

I've only read A Tale of Two Cities and Hard Times. In both cases, I really had trouble getting into them. Then I couldn't put them down. Then I finished them and felt sick to my stomach over their unapologetic sentimentality and swore I'd never read Dickens again.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Great Expectations was okay. Better than Tale of Two Cities or David Copperfield, at least.

[(Anonymous)]

"the human equivalent of a wet kleenex" omg that nails it so hard. excellent comparison.

anyway yeah I agree, hated this book and the teacher who made us read it in 8th grade.

[(Anonymous)]

hated this book and the teacher who made us read it in 8th grade.

o_O

What kind of over-achiever school did you go to? We read the Chrysalids and The Outsiders in eighth grade. Pretty sure both those books combined are about a third as long and a quarter as dry as Great Expectations.

[(Anonymous)]

idk, maybe it was my class? I'm finding out belatedly that I did a lot of things in grade school and junior high that other people didn't do until high school.

[(Anonymous)]

I read this in 8th grade, too. It's the only book I can remember from 8th grade because I hated it that much. Then I read Hard Times in 11th grade and A Tale of Two Cities in college and I hated them as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I had Tale of two Cities in 7th grade, I think. It was the school's version of gifted or whatever they call it now, "Language Arts" class. We also read The Hobbit in the same class.

I had read David Copperfield in fifth grade on my own time. I liked both, but I didn't follow the plot of ToTC very well. The first three chapters confused me but I picked it up after that and was doing fine by the end.

I didn't like Great Expectations either :)

[ayebydan]

I think Dickens is something you have to want to read. It suffers a lot from being overly dramatic in prose at times like a lot of other books from that era. I tend to prefer media based on Dickens where they stay true to the stories but take a lot of that stuff out for tv purposes ect. It horrifies my English lit graduate friend to say the least lol

[(Anonymous)]

I had to study Great Expectations (Grade 10) and A Tale of Two Cities (Grade 12) in high school. I think I would've enjoyed them more if they'd switched grades.

[(Anonymous)]

If we're judging the entire body of literature and the arts by how good the creators were as people... what the hell is left?

Most people, alive and dead, are various degrees of asshole.

[litalex]

You should try the Thursday Next books. They have Miss Havisham, but with a lot more humor.