My mum always told me how she hated Dickens and I assumed
that it was because she was ill-educated and I would therefore ignore her protestations and show her how a youth with all the knowledge in the world could succeed where she had so obviously failed and marvel at the wonder of this colossus of the English canon and his mastery of our language and the juxtaposed exploration of class, money and the human condition.



To her credit she has avoided ever saying 'I told you so.'
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 5 Jan 2012, 15:19, Reply)