Dickens Book Club

[Quark]

Poll closed! With 7 votes, Our Mutual Friend wins. I'll start a thread for it tomorrow. I'm already about a third of the way through rereading it, but things will probably go quite slow for the first few days while people start to read.

Thanks for voting everyone. I was pleasantly surprised to see so much interest in Dickens. If the discussion goes well, I'm sure we can start another thread on a different Dickens novel after we finish Our Mutual Friend.

When I start the Our Mutual Friend discussion tomorrow, I'll post a link here to the new thread.

[Dark Muse]

Our Mutural Friend is one of the few Dicken's novels I have acutally read, and though I enjoyed, I just cannot read it again, it is quite thick, and well it wasn't that long ago since I read it. But I may drop in on the discussion.

[Aravona]

I went for 'The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby' - I do love Dickens, but his wonderful books have been tainted by GCSE disection of his novels.

[blazeofglory]

I like Dickens for he was really against the corrupt capitalists of his days and there is a stench of socialism in his writing and some raised their voices against the books of Dickens

[caspian]

I guess I just increased the stats, my late vote went for "tale of two citys". I've resently bought it. It's so pleasant to see there're still many Dickens novels i've not read. I love Dickens, can read him any time. "mutual friend" is just fine. I haven't read it.

[Jozanny]

I will make a reluctant attempt to start the novel this weekend . To turn a phrase on an old comment Scheherazade made in relation to Hardy: I have read enough of Dickens to know why his detractions stick in my throat, but a significant period of time has elapsed since I sat and stared them in the face.

[Quark]

The Our Mutual Friend thread is up:

http://www.online-literature.com/for...692#post876692