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Originally Posted by piper28
It left a strong impression on me (Tale of Two Cities that is). An impression of wanting to run a drill through my eyeballs before ever trying to read another Dickens novel  . |
I think you either love Dickens or hate him! Die-hard Dickens fans will no doubt be shocked by your comments but it is interesting to get another opinion from "the dark side" (ie - the Dickens haters!). Myself, well I've read just about everything he wrote and mostly I love him, but he has his faults as a writer. Mostly I admire the way he brought about the social changes in Victorian England, not by revolution but by writing about the poor and disadvantaged and bringing many of the evils of his time (debtors prisons, child exploitation) to public attention.
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