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Originally Posted by HarryT
Goodness knows there's no shortage of classics in English. I'd start with my very favourite author, Charles Dickens, arguably the greatest novelist ever to have written in the English language. Most people who think "Dickens is boring" do so because they were force-fed him in school. Dickens wasn't writing for children (other than the few books he wrote which were actually aimed at children, of course); you have to be an adult with some experience of the world to be able to appreciate his biting wit and social satire.
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I was waiting for this from you HarryT.
I started to read a couple of Dickens stories. I've only read
A Christmas Carol, which I enjoyed, and
The Chimes, which I did not enjoy.
I'm still determined to read at least all his Christmas stories and
A Tale of Two Cities, but I don't know if I'm going to tackle his bigger works.