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anacreon · 11-04-2013, 01:51 AM

I never managed to do more than skip through assigned Dickens texts, but much later I did like "Our mutual friend". Did you try it? I don't know whether I'd manage to reread it now though.

I've found since I have readers (2 years), and so many more books than I'll ever read, and so many new ones I want to try every day, that it is more difficult to read those very long books with the tempo of a time without TVs or computers - they read aloud to each other after dinner, and those thrilling serial stories with so many changes of atmosphere must have helped to keep them awake.

11-04-2013, 01:51 AM	#8
anacreon Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 3475832 Join Date: May 2012 Location: France Device: Elipsa, Sage, Libra 2	I never managed to do more than skip through assigned Dickens texts, but much later I did like "Our mutual friend". Did you try it? I don't know whether I'd manage to reread it now though. I've found since I have readers (2 years), and so many more books than I'll ever read, and so many new ones I want to try every day, that it is more difficult to read those very long books with the tempo of a time without TVs or computers - they read aloud to each other after dinner, and those thrilling serial stories with so many changes of atmosphere must have helped to keep them awake.