The GMG Pickwick Club

[DavidW]

I'nm a huge fan of Our Mutual Friend.

Back in HS when I was big into Dickens Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit were my two favorites.

[vers la flamme]

Back in HS when I was big into Dickens Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit were my two favorites.

I used to have a copy of Little Dorrit, but never finished it, finding it bleak at the time.

Not knowing anything about Our Mutual Friend, I take the recommendation with interest. (It's damn long!—but I suppose his best stuff is.)

I've just started the shortest one, Hard Times. So far, so good.

[SimonNZ]

Having just finished both Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, I've gotten myself hooked, much belatedly, on the works of Charles Dickens. Maybe the good gentlemen of the GMG Pickwick Club can guide me in the direction of where to go next with this esteemed author?

Tale Of Two Cities or Bleak House, depending on how much page count you want.


(that just reminded me that I heard someone somewhere quip wrt modern politics: "It was the fuckaroundest of times, it was the findoutest of times".)

[vers la flamme]

Tale Of Two Cities or Bleak House, depending on how much page count you want.


(that just reminded me that I heard someone somewhere quip wrt modern politics: "It was the fuckaroundest of times, it was the findoutest of times".)

I ordered a copy of the former, and will probably start it as soon as it arrives. The latter, I have long been curious about, and shall try and read it sometime next year.

[Ganondorf]

Our Mutual Friend is my favorite. Anyone who says Dickens cant write complex female characters should take a look at Sophronia Lammle. I actually prefer her even to the magnificent Rosa Dartle in Copperfield.

[vers la flamme]

I daresay the characters in Hard Times are even more despicable than those of Oliver Twist, who at least have no illusions that they are leading morally responsible lives or that their dubious works are in service of societal progress.

[Lisztianwagner]

I daresay the characters in Hard Times are even more despicable than those of Oliver Twist, who at least have no illusions that they are leading morally responsible lives or that their dubious works are in service of societal progress.

Agreed, but in fact that's what makes the plot of the novel so interesting.

[DavidW]

I'nm a huge fan of Our Mutual Friend.

A grindstone for your nose Mr. Boffin!!  I still remember it despite having read it oh 29 years ago?

[Karl Henning]

Revisiting the BBC production of Bleak House with Diana Rigg, Denholm Elliott and Peter Vaughan. I looked forward so to Tulkinghorn getting his. I hope that doesn't make me a bad person. I keep knowing that I've seen Elliott elsewhere, and keep forgetting that it's Indiana Jones. I  need to renew my diligence in reading the source novel.