Happy Birthday Charles Dickens
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charliesmum200 years ago Charles Dickens was born.
What's your favourite book/story of his? (Presuming you enjoy his works, that is.)
Mine is Our Mutual Friend. I think it's his masterpiece. The characters are amazing, and the story is fantastic. Complicated but great.
My favourite bit is the fact that he created a good Jewish character because a Jewish woman wrote to him and told him he wasn't doing them any favours by creating Fagin. He listened, and he created a character who voiced the woman's concerns.
Also he did an entire chapter that was a conversation between two characters. They are never named in the chapter, but becuase he'd created them so well, and gave them such distinctive voices, you knew exactly who was speaking. Brilliant.
My least favourite is probably Great Expectation, or maybe Tale of Two Cities. My 11th grade English teacher was SO funny when he riffed on Lucy - he complained that all she ever did was faint. And when we watched the movie, he said 'oh, there she goes' and the whole class disolved into laughter.
So...Thanks Charles Dickens. Oh, and thanks for helping the Doctor defeat the Gelfs.
What's your favourite book/story of his? (Presuming you enjoy his works, that is.)
Mine is Our Mutual Friend. I think it's his masterpiece. The characters are amazing, and the story is fantastic. Complicated but great.
My favourite bit is the fact that he created a good Jewish character because a Jewish woman wrote to him and told him he wasn't doing them any favours by creating Fagin. He listened, and he created a character who voiced the woman's concerns.
Also he did an entire chapter that was a conversation between two characters. They are never named in the chapter, but becuase he'd created them so well, and gave them such distinctive voices, you knew exactly who was speaking. Brilliant.
My least favourite is probably Great Expectation, or maybe Tale of Two Cities. My 11th grade English teacher was SO funny when he riffed on Lucy - he complained that all she ever did was faint. And when we watched the movie, he said 'oh, there she goes' and the whole class disolved into laughter.
So...Thanks Charles Dickens. Oh, and thanks for helping the Doctor defeat the Gelfs.
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on 2012-02-07 01:46 pm (UTC)As far as my favorite book: I can't narrow it down to just one. I'm torn between David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Christmas Carol.
It's also Eddie Izzard's fiftieth birthday!
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on 2012-02-07 01:52 pm (UTC)Also, love the icon!