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philistine^

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:15, 2 replies, latest was 11 years ago)
Dickens makes me cross.

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:16, Reply)

ens ing
cross nostalgic
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:16, Reply)

en s cross wetter than an otter's pocket
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:17, Reply)
haha!

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:17, Reply)
I rather enjoyed the two I've read

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:17, Reply)
Which ones?

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:18, Reply)
The two he's read

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:18, Reply)
I really ought to learn to read what he says.

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:19, Reply)
IDIOT

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:21, Reply)
saved me the bother.

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:21, Reply)
Great Sexpectations
David Cockinfield
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:19, Reply)
Great Expectations would be vastly improved by a good dose of shagging
Or, indeed, by being consumed and then shat out
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:21, Reply)
I read the Pickpwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby
I've started Great Expectations and Martin Chuzzlewhit but never finished them.
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:21, Reply)
Where Dickens was supposed to have written Pickwick Papers
is a chop house near my office.

Nommy chops.
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:30, Reply)
pork or lamb?

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:33, Reply)
YES!

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:36, Reply)
*high fives*

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:36, Reply)
*lambyfives*

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:39, Reply)
Dickens takes a half decent short story and pads it out by massively over describing everything.
Its painful to read.
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:26, Reply)
I like the series of coincidences that all conspire to leave everything okay in the end.

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:33, Reply)
It's odd, really. Plenty of Victorian authors are perfectly legible.
Dickens seems to go out of his way to be florid. It's how I'd expect a Victorian Dozer to write.
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:41, Reply)
A concept far too horrible to even contemplate

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:51, Reply)
it's because he was penny-lining
he got paid for padding it out.
(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:56, Reply)
They're big and heavy and he's scrawny and weak

(, Mon 28 Apr 2014, 11:16, Reply)

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