My grandfather, a professor of English of some renown,
always said Dickens was a load of sentimental claptrap.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:05, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I love Dickens but I'm not sentimental in the least.

( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:08, Reply)

I don't like Dickens
but I can acknowledge that he's good. Just too ponderous for me. His best works are the odder short ones like The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished sadly) and A Tale of Two Cities
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:11, Reply)

it's the way he wrote that impresses me, rather than what he wrote
woke up, drunk and debauched, realised he needed to make more money, didn't even read last week's offering, just dashed off a load more story at "a penny a line".
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:13, Reply)

cf Winston Churchill
How that fellow ever did anything at all is incredible
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:43, Reply)

It's like Ray Bradbury
writing Farhenheit 451 in about two weeks because he really desperately needed the money
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:46, Reply)

That I did not know.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 16:10, Reply)

I don't really know why I like him.
I just enjoy the stories.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:22, Reply)

I can't stand him.
He's a shit.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:29, Reply)

I love Oscar Wilde's demolition of twee-fest The OId Curiosity Shop*.
That chap was a proper genius. Albeit a bent paddy one.


*'One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing'
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Wow, so having the opinion that populist=shit
runs in your family?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:12, Reply)

It was ingrained in me as a child, yes.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:19, Reply)

Well I for one think it's nice to have a legacy to carry on.

( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:20, Reply)

Tell that to Douglas Bader

(Cave Duck, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:24, Reply)

Sorry are we talking about a love of cock?

(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:20, Reply)

To be fair
most families who look after their children's education do tend to pass on their own prejudices as well in the matter of literature. Not just Monty's
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:28, Reply)

Thank God my parents didn't look after mine then.
Although I did once find a book by Solgenizkin at my dads once. Fuck knows what he was doing with it.
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:34, Reply)

Count yourself lucky
my mother made me read a third of Great Expectations aloud when when I was eight or nine, despite the fact that we both loathe it as a book
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:37, Reply)

I ain't got no love for Dickens.
Or hos for that matter.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:24, Reply)

What have hos ever done to you?

( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:27, Reply)

What have they NOT done, BGB, hmm?

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:28, Reply)

I heard some hos got GREAT seats to see Squeeze at teh Phil and didn't invite him
What's that all about eh BGB?
(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:31, Reply)

This is true.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:32, Reply)

I logged in just to tell you off
Good day sir!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:40, Reply)

Love you sweety

(Bazongaloid, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:45, Reply)

Love you too sweaty

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:55, Reply)

Have you caught Chlamydia again dozer?
*sad face*
( girlinthehole, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:32, Reply)

And that is why I ain't got no love for dem hos.

(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:32, Reply)

He means ‘Hoss’ from ‘Bonanza’. Interfered with him when he was a boy, apparently.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:32, Reply)

Did you hear that?
Listen carefuly and you can hear people over 30 chuckling.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:45, Reply)

Monty is WELL over 30 you know.
Makes Bruce Forsyth look positively youthful.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:47, Reply)

I remember when young Brucie was in short trousers, you know.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 15:59, Reply)

+fondly

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Wed 1 Dec 2010, 16:02, Reply)