[BenKenobi]

Actually, this was on my booklist last year, and I’m getting through it now. I’ve read quite a bit, but we never did Dickens in my English classes, and I wanted to fill a hole.

Enjoying it so far. Prefer Tolstoy and Dostoyevski though.

[EyeGuy]

“I’ve read quite a bit, but we never did Dickens in my English classes, and I wanted to fill a hole.”

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Nor did I.

We were too busy reading liberal fave, POS downers like “Catcher in the Rye”, and other “daring” and “edgy” crapola.

[Verginius Rufus]

I read two of Charles Dickens' novels--A Tale of Two Cities while in high school and Great Expectations in college. I would, if given a choice, prefer one of the Russian 19th-century novelists--Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, or Turgenev. If I was recommending a Dickens book to Oprah, I'd tell her to pick A Child's History of England.

I haven't read all of that but liked the part about Puritan coffee houses where the Puritans would gather and talk through their noses. But I doubt many of her readers would make it through that work--too much information.