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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
An interesting question. I have to think: honestly how many people here actually do like reading the "classics" or rather more accurately the copyright free texts? It seems to me that the primary reason people talk about digital readers and "classics" is because those are free books. If there were not free, probably more than 50% of digital reader users would not bother with them.
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I can quite honestly say that Dickens is my favourite author, with Austen not far behind. Dickens writes with absolutely biting wit and social satire (eg his representation of the working of government in the "Circumlocution Office" in "Little Dorrit"), and probably no writer in history has given the literary world as many memorable characters as did he.
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As a scholar in the social sciences myself, I admit to not being attracted to the so-called classics literature and much prefer to read contemporary texts.
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It doesn't have to be an "either/or" thing, of course. I'm a big SF and fantasy fan as well as loving Dickens and Austen.