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Dickens literally sucks dick. |
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This is the second sub-par thread I have seen on this site in the last 3 months. This place has gone to the dogs. |
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I feel that OP's point should still be recognised that Dickens is a terrible author. The point has perhaps been done to death already but he remains a lesson in never paying an author by the chapter and how stories may do a disservice in outliving their purpose. Perhaps it is ironic that one of his most famous works involves a never-ending court case that bounces aimlessly between subjects to nothing but the destitution of the interested parties. |
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They were catering to people's superior attention spans back then. I think if you tried to submit Jane Eyre or Sunset Song now, they'd be like |
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On a similar note, I just looked at Michael Caine's IMDb page. His featured films are... well, one of them's batman and I've never heard of two of the others. This from the man who was in Zulu, Get Carter, the man who was Alfie. No, he's now known for The Prestige, The Quiet American and Cider House Rules whatever the fuck that is. |
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If you amass a collection of 80,000 ebooks, including people's vanity-published dreck, I think that must be somewhat similar to the experience of attacking a slush-pile. You have two pages to get my attention. If not, next. |
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Dickens isn't a great example of prime British literature. IIRC, Orwell said that he (Dickens) was out of touch with real life because he'd done nothing but write for a living. So he needed to fill pages with melodrama and conversation in lieu of description, which is what I, and probably plenty of others, dislike about him. |
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