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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It chagrins me to say that I'm thinking about revising my (similar) opinion on Dickens. I keep on reading really cool cyber and steam punk novels that always reference back to Dickens, and I'm thinking that I might have been hasty in my judgment and condemnation in high school. This is not to say that I'll be going back and reading Great Expectations or Oliver Twist, but I'm not actively bitching about him as loudly anymore.
I will continue to note that he did get paid by the word and that may have been a factor in my dislike of him back in the day.
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I really like Dickens. The only one that I've never been able to get through is Bleak House (maybe because it is all about lawyers, I don't know). But Great Expectations is one of the best stories ever.
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