tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post8426715079865202041..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: Books That (Alas) I Shall Never Read - The Second in a SeriesCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-86377985624186637762010-12-16T10:51:41.579-08:002010-12-16T10:51:41.579-08:00I largely agree. The only Dickens I have ever re-r...I largely agree. The only Dickens I have ever re-read is "A Christmas Carol," and that partly to demonstrate to friends how very much our modern conception of Xmas celebrations are based on Dickens and on Clement Moore. <br /><br />A friend of mine whose tastes are rather Victorian recently admitted to me that he'd never read any Dickens. So I gave him a couple of the better-known novels. He read them, then reported back to me that he hadn't enjoyed reading them very much *as entertainments* and didn't feel the need to read anymore Dickens. He feels like he's fulfilled his duty, and gave Dickens a fair shot. And that's enough.Art Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-82177341273103440082010-12-15T13:25:04.512-08:002010-12-15T13:25:04.512-08:00Dickens still scares the bogus, the hipster-nihili...Dickens still scares the bogus, the hipster-nihilist, the wannabe-Proust--a similar effect may be produced from say Wordsworth, perhaps. In that sense, Dickens' writing remains valuable. He may have been sentimental at times, but is not a moral relativist. Scrooge the capitalist--instantiate, Madoff, etc-- has been tried and found guilty really: only via the vision does he alter his greedy, usurious ways and have a chance at something like redemption.Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-81734452060005406412010-12-15T13:11:02.960-08:002010-12-15T13:11:02.960-08:00the ONLY Dickens book I've ever read was
A Ta...the ONLY Dickens book I've ever read was<br /><br />A Tale of Two Cities...<br /><br />well not exactly<br /><br />I saw the movie both the silent one and the Coleman one<br /><br />OH<br /><br />I did see another Dickens novel the one with W.C Fields on the roof<br /><br />I did,<br /><br />however, have The Entire Classic Comic Books series<br />...<br /> The Three Musketeers was "cool"<br /><br />the Disney version was even better with Micky and Donald and etc...<br /><br />nothing like those 19 th century books<br /><br />read in the outhouse The Sears Catalogue..<br /><br />and in England that mag The Pearl<br /><br />which I betcha all oft them issued is somewhere on the net unexpurgated<br /><br /><br />-KokkieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-90378199566754363702010-12-15T13:03:09.042-08:002010-12-15T13:03:09.042-08:00Many people, even Mericans read a bit of Dickens t...Many people, even Mericans read a bit of Dickens the sentimentalist---Oliver Twist, Copperfield, Xmas Carol, Tale of Two Cities (tho not quite as mushy as the aforemention). The Dickens of Great Expectations or Bleak House (which I too have yet to finish) was a bit different creature. Not my fave writer (then, I'd rather read Hegel than Hawthorne or Willard Quine instead of Ginny Wolfe) --but he had a big heart, like say Joe Gargery hisself. Authentic as the beret-posse once said, and mo' economically informed than many realize--but many in Consumerland only get the Artful Dodger BS and not the intense urban realism that Dickens often portrayed so deftly (in comparison to DickensSpeak the usual victorian sap--Brontes etc--seems like PBS PMS product). One's tempted to say a Dickens' writing and journalism did more good than an experimentalist such as Joyce (or yr fave beatnik) ever would, however ordinary Dickens' writing seems now. Maybe the Geist of Hegel agreesJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11567400697675996283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-73064638577096857572010-12-15T11:23:13.172-08:002010-12-15T11:23:13.172-08:00Agreed!
I believe you've read the essential D...Agreed!<br /><br />I believe you've read the essential Dickens.Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com