>An entire chapter dedicated to some dipshits drinking wine from a bottle that smashed and three people walking up the stairsPeople like this shit?
>>23316779I just started this book kek I think I got a gay edition without illustration, thoughbeit.
>>23316779Midwit absolutely fucking filtered
>>23316790I don't fucking CARE that shit sucks, faggot! I don't CARE that Jarvis only thinks of business! I don't CARE about Manette being in the north tower!!
>>23316810And I don't fucking care that you personally have DOGSHIT taste, cockmonger. Eat shit and go back to reading your Pynchon slop
>>23316779Honestly, anon, that sounds quite interesting. The whole point of Realism is to an unflinching look at something that happens in real life. Authors like Dickens aren't concerned with rushing from one plot point to the next. They want you to live in the scenes, especially when the scenes are uncomfortable.
>>23316779This was probably the most boring thing I was forced to read in school.
I read a Tale of Two Cities in high school. While I was very interested in the era and historical events, I found the actual novel to be slow and dull. It was published in serial format. I wonder if that encouraged Dickens to stretch out the narrative longer than it needed to be. Or 19th century readers preferred a slower pace.Either way, I was never interested in reading more from Dickens.
Great Expectations is the superior Dickens work
>>23317411This book is different from all the others.
>>23317411I've never understood why this is the Dickens they teach high schoolers. Is it a sort of desire to "double dip" and treat it like a historical text in addition to a novel? You figure great expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist all typify Dickens' overall work better and are probably more engaging for teenagers. Hell, Bleak House has spontaneous combustion.
>>23318071Oliver Twist should be the required reading instead. It's shorter, sweeter, and doesn't have a, eh, sprawling narrative.
>>23316779I was bored by Dickens, but I intend to give him another chance.
>>23318034It bored the hell outta me still...
>>23318082Start with the early stuff. Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers. Many Victorians actually preferred his earlier output to his later output as he got more "serious" and meandering in his plots...Hard to really call any of Dickens serious but you know what I mean. Imo everything up to Copperfield has a different flavor than the stuff he wrote after.
>>23318043The different book Is Bleak House.
>>23318034>The Whale and The Squid
>>23316779Yes.
>>23316779I started this the other day too. You mean you didn't like the four pages in which the daughter approaches the dad and holds his hand?
