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David Copperfield made me glad to be living in our modern world, you know, the one with Prozac. You guys know that I'm brutally cheerful, so I've never said, "I think I'll seek out a Dickens novel to bring me down." But every time I've read one, it has been impossible to put down.
I read quite a few in college - both for lit classes AND history classes in order to learn more about the daily lives of the common people. Also William Blake's poems, which are cute little rhymes that contain terrifying truths, such as tiny chimney sweeps were doing a job likely to cause cancer, etc.
I've still to read Middlemarch. The only thing I remember about it was not having time to read it, faking my answers on an exam, and making an A anyway.
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