tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post1492215215118622054..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: Mr. Pickwick on the way to prisonAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-66839620482673970022007-12-06T09:10:00.000-06:002007-12-06T09:10:00.000-06:00"Bleak House" is the best one I've read (I have no..."Bleak House" is the best one I've read (I have not read most of them). "Best" = see post on "Mansfield Park". Ma femme, who has read them all, votes for "Our Mutual Friend". <BR/><BR/>"Pickwick" is a great choice, but it is almost without plot, and was not originally meant to be a novel, just a series of adventures. Some episodes are dullish, while others are as good as anything Dickens would ever write. Sam Weller and his father composing a walentine, for example.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-26226678148172894722007-12-05T07:22:00.000-06:002007-12-05T07:22:00.000-06:00I've long wanted to read Pitwick because of a line...I've long wanted to read Pitwick because of a line in Anne of the Island (third in the Anne of Green Gables Series) about how hungry it made the Phil because of all of the great food in it. I've long wanted to read Nicholas Nickleby because I loved A Tale of Two Cities in high school and have been told I would like NN.<BR/>Somehow my second Dickens novel ended up being Great Expectations (probably because of its shorter length) and it was such a slog, with neither the plot nor the humor of Tale of Two Cities, that I haven't read any Dickens since.<BR/><BR/>Which novel would you suggest if I were to give Dickens a much deserved third try?Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.com