Fire Mage
03-18-2008, 05:48 PM
Is there any specific tip to reading The Chimes? Sure, it's a short story but it's giving me trouble.
I just finished reading Christmas Carol (in prose) and that did not give too much trouble as already knowing the general backstory helped out.
But Dickens tends to draw things out in long-winded descriptions; the very beginning of The Chimes talks about the bells in the tower and the night-wind at length for at least 2 and a half pages, then finally introduces someone.
I don't mean to say that it's unnatural for an author to do this, but my mind gets a bit scrambled reading it, so any tips when looking it over? I can usually read harder material but for some reason Dickens' writing gets to me.
I just finished reading Christmas Carol (in prose) and that did not give too much trouble as already knowing the general backstory helped out.
But Dickens tends to draw things out in long-winded descriptions; the very beginning of The Chimes talks about the bells in the tower and the night-wind at length for at least 2 and a half pages, then finally introduces someone.
I don't mean to say that it's unnatural for an author to do this, but my mind gets a bit scrambled reading it, so any tips when looking it over? I can usually read harder material but for some reason Dickens' writing gets to me.