Dickens

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Originally Posted by fayefaye

. the plotline was ACTUALLY INTERESTING. the ending was tragic. brilliant. but the prose completely ruined it for me. bored me to death. made me skip whole chapters to reach the end. he'll go on for ages describing something of virutually no relevance. i compare dickens and shakespeare to the pop music of the literature world. everybody has read it at some point or another, but to some extent i can't help but wonder why.

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I can't stand most pop music but I find the greatness of Dickens is the opposite: I find him interesting even if he's talking about nothing at all!
Talk about tastes...

i find it interesting to a small extent, but after a while.. it's just plain irritating.