It took me ages to finish great expectations, and I am not sure if I should give it a try again. I was so bored with it. Do you have any suggestions maybe for reading a more intersting one you liked or for me to start again with?
2006-12-09 06:23:46 · 10 answers · asked by mariamofcairo 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I know what you mean. I've sat through an entire Dickens play, and because I wasn't willing to work to engage myself in it on that particular day, it just skimmed right over me...I don't think I caught any of the story line.
When reading Dickens and other earlier authors, we have to take into account the fact that the style of writing before television was much different. The authors took much more time explaining details and surroundings. That factor alone creates quite a barrier, in addition to the vast differences of life in that era from life today.
If you really want to get into Dickens, you need to be prepared to sink yourself into the details pay close attention to what people are saying, and just be willing to take it slowly.
2006-12-09 08:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to love the Anne of Green Gables series when I was a kid, and the characters were always reading dickens... so I started reading Dickens... and boy did I get annoyed at Anne and her friends for suggesting it. He's the only author who consistently makes me fall asleep within the first 10 pages. And trust me... I can read ANYTHING. (and I'm a fast reader, so it's not the length.)
I don't even think it's the old-fashioned thing... plenty of other 19th century writers can hold my interest. respect all he brought to the language, seen some great productions of Xmas carol... but oh, man, dickens bores me to tears. Having to read "Tale of Two Cities" soph yr in HS was the worst thing ever.
I say skip it. Life's too short and there are too many good books to be read to waste time boring yourself with Dickens.
2006-12-09 14:16:58 · answer #2 · answered by lalabee 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If a book doesn't engage your mind after 50 or so pages, throw it away.
As for Dickens, his books make very good door stops, and that's about it.
Try The Great Gatsby, by Scott Fitzgerald, a fine example of a writer who doesn't waste the reader's time with overblown descriptive passages.
A classic read.
2006-12-09 07:13:37 · answer #3 · answered by Panama Jack 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't care for Great Expectations as much as David Copperfield. If you think of a Dickens book as serialized chapters, which many were, with people waiting eagerly for the next installment, you get a different feel for them. The characters are so well drawn, their names so well-suited to them, the villains so evil, the good guys so easy to root for...well you get the idea. I love the richness of the language that no longer exists in modern writing. Give David Copperfield a try. Even if you don't love it, certain characters have become synonymous with human characteristics: Uriah Heep for his false humility to cover a conniving, envious spirit; Mr. Micawber for his endless optimism in the face of calamities of his own making, etc. etc. I think you'll like it.
2006-12-09 06:45:20 · answer #4 · answered by Whimsy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have a hard time reading anything written before world war 2 -- its the pacing of the book and if you aren't into the whole 19th century details thing it is really hard to read. Try the short stuff like chistmas carol and cricket on the hearth and see if those bore you too. Not every author is for everyone.
2006-12-09 06:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
many human beings even in recent times do no longer discover his memories boring. And in his own day they were surprisingly common. His books were printed initially as instalments in magazines, and human beings waited eagerly for the subsequent installment. remember, there became no radio or television or vidoes or computers or some thing in at present, even the gramaphone hadn't been invented, so the in common words waiting-made type of leisure you had at abode became interpreting, and books were immensely significant for that reason. human beings in Dickens's day did not discover his memories boring, they got here upon them exciting and dramatic, and they cared what happend to the characters, only as human beings in recent times care abou tthe characters in television cleansing soap operas. at the same time as Little nell, a personality in 'The previous interest save' fell ill, readers in u . s . a . of america thronged to the docks at the same time as the subsequent huge form got here in on the deliver from England, and called out "Is Little Nell lifeless?" because the deliver docked. in my view, i hit upon dickens's novels too lengthy and too sentimental for my style, and his insipid heroines get on my nerves, yet I earnings from the humour interior the books.
2016-11-25 01:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe if you understand why Dickens is writing his novels you would be more interested in them. try reading Hard Times if you want to try another Dickens. it is much shorter-remember when he was writing it, he was speaking out against the state of England at the time. education, labor laws, factory and union laws, marriage and divorce laws.
2006-12-09 15:34:20 · answer #7 · answered by Sara B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try reading Oliver Twist, is one of my Favorite books.
2006-12-09 07:26:43 · answer #8 · answered by Sakura ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
charles who
2006-12-09 06:34:19 · answer #9 · answered by catweazle 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya boring... i dont like that type of books!!
2006-12-09 06:54:15 · answer #10 · answered by Leah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋