tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6288117428396579525..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Crazy Imaginative DickensAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55770616491074969902012-02-20T20:23:32.755-06:002012-02-20T20:23:32.755-06:00Fantastic link - like something from fantasy.
Gri...Fantastic link - like something from fantasy.<br /><br />Grip is a scene-stealer. Also, a shiny-object-stealer.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2170757694933895512012-02-20T18:08:39.711-06:002012-02-20T18:08:39.711-06:00Grip deserves his own card! It's been decades...Grip deserves his own card! It's been decades since I read "Rudge," but I still remember Grip. One more link -- here he is:<br /><br />http://atlasobscura.com/place/grip-ravenDoug Skinnerhttp://www.dougskinner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76158973296008098882012-02-20T12:35:11.166-06:002012-02-20T12:35:11.166-06:00A hugely enjoyable novel for me, too, even when it...A hugely enjoyable novel for me, too, even when it was not working quite right as a novel - when the pieces become so scattered that they can no longer be brought back together. But who cares!<br /><br />Quilp himself is something else. You've gotten to the scene with him sleeping on Nell's bed? Ha ha ha ha! Weird, weird Dickens.<br /><br />I think a long, insightful - long, at least - comment at your place got lost in the spiced lunchmeat trap. Although who knows, maybe I never hit the Publish button.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73710200671764910552012-02-20T12:07:16.670-06:002012-02-20T12:07:16.670-06:00I began The Old Curiosity Shop last night, and I c...I began <i>The Old Curiosity Shop</i> last night, and I can't tell you how much I'm enjoying it. It's the perfect read for me right now, jaded as I am by the humans surrounding me...Quilp has me smiling throughout at his selfish antics, but I'm only within the first hundred pages. Shall post when I'm done with deeper thoughts. Althoug they're never quite as deep as yours. I seem to remain largely on the surface of things, without meaning to. :)Bellezza https://www.blogger.com/profile/18073864187188953633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-40992317799939895742012-02-19T20:51:32.744-06:002012-02-19T20:51:32.744-06:00I love the cards. Grip the Raven gets his own car...I love the cards. Grip the Raven gets his own card. The fat boy Joe gets his own card! "I wants to make your flesh creep." Ha ha ha ha ha! Weird, weird Dickens.<br /><br />I would bet you are right, that the academics are more interested in "social Dickens" and the "darker" later novels give them more to work with. While writers, and readers like me, are drawn to the later novels because of their greater complexity, the intricacy of the pattern of metaphor and imagery and the tricky ways the characters and social themes fit the patterns.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88348438915943416032012-02-19T20:43:31.724-06:002012-02-19T20:43:31.724-06:00I wonder how much the perception of Dickens has ch...I wonder how much the perception of Dickens has changed. I suspect that earlier generations of readers appreciated him most for his colorful characters; and that today's academics are more interested in his engagement with social issues.<br /><br />Speaking of which, you might enjoy these Dickensian cigarette cards:<br /><br />http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?keyword=dickens+gallery<br /><br />Cheers!Doug Skinnerhttp://www.dougskinner.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-41857327493040377762012-02-16T22:52:54.168-06:002012-02-16T22:52:54.168-06:00Worked for him, better than for almost anyone. Wh...Worked for him, better than for almost anyone. Which of his peers compare in terms of pure imaginative power? Lewis Carroll, perhaps.<br /><br />Thanks for visiting, by the way. I do not believe we have "met" before.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74736116092327638542012-02-16T19:52:43.396-06:002012-02-16T19:52:43.396-06:00Crazy worked for Dickens! I love his characters, s...Crazy worked for Dickens! I love his characters, so comical and <i>much</i> larger than life.Kate Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15878471739967889253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74475711396817981392012-02-16T19:20:41.165-06:002012-02-16T19:20:41.165-06:00That's what I am going to write about for tomo...That's what I am going to write about for tomorrow. How did you know that?<br /><br /><i>Hard Times</i> can be kind of hard to like. It is a bit of a freak among Dickens work.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-55880909709149192912012-02-16T16:45:58.900-06:002012-02-16T16:45:58.900-06:00I totally enjoyed this post and totally agree with...I totally enjoyed this post and totally agree with you. He was crazy, imaginative, but crazy. <br /><br />I actually think he loved character sketches more than plot, and so did sketch after sketch after sketch, creating legions of extraneous characters who get in the way of the story.<br /><br />I'm currently reading Little Dorrit, liking it so much more than Hard Times, but I still can't honestly say that I love to read Dickens. <br /><br />A disciplined story teller he was not.<br /><br />Good post!JaneGShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094501834387622997noreply@blogger.com