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any love for dickens on this board?

>> No.12585917

We're pseuds here. Dickens has no pseud cred. Shorthair girls won't be impressed they see us reading Oliver Twist. That goatee dude who secretly might be smarter than us might sneer if he spots Our Mutual Friend in our bag. Better to play it safe with a Russian or an impenetrable postmodernist.

>> No.12585926

>>12585917
nabby and bloom like him though

>> No.12585930

>>12585926
well yeah anyone with a modicum of taste likes him, but he is not a fashionable writer these days

>> No.12585947

>>12585898
Yeah, reading Dickens helped me feel good about myself and connect with my gf. He's a sweet fella.

>> No.12585968

Like Austen, too patrician for most of /lit/.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwvONJXJUO4

>> No.12585973

Anyone who doesn't like Pickwick Papers is a swine

>> No.12586016

Great Expectations was one of the most realistic but still engaging Victorian stories I have read. He really knows how to create an interesting plot.

>> No.12586019

Big dickens is based and there is a reason he is part of the pseud repellent trio

>> No.12586032

>>12585898
Yes. I've read them all but Nickelby, Rudge, and American Notes. Begin with Pickwick (or Boz if happening to have a copy).

>> No.12586040

>>12585898
>any love for dick... on this board?
Hell yeah man, welcome

>> No.12586041

>>12586019
Maybe if you are English and care about historical significance. There is nothing remarkable about his prose and today we can only be cynical towards his drama and plots. "it reads like 19th century novel' is still the worst kind of description book can get. And dick encompasses that.

>> No.12586045

>>12586041
pseud

>> No.12586058

>>12585898
Donna Tartt focused on Dickens and Greek philosophy while /lit/ focused on dicking and geek theophany

>> No.12586059

>>12586041
>nothing remarkable about his prose
I mean shit nigga that's a hot take

>> No.12586060

>>12585898
A big part of his supposed genius was commonplace back then. He only seems esoteric and mysterious to us because of his obscure language. He was forgotten until Gissing or some faggot revived him from oblivion and now every Victorian academist jerks off about how amazing he was while in truth he was alright for the times. There's nothing in Dickens that doesn't also happens in other novelists from the period.

>> No.12586063

>>12585898
He's one of those writers, like most Victorian writers like Austen, that pseuds claim doesn't get enough love on /lit/ but then every thread is sucking them off despite being middlebrow-core mediocrity.

>> No.12586070

>>12585917
That's why you get Tale of Two Cities dawg

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>>12586063
>Victorian writers like Austen

>> No.12586113

>>12586041
>repelled by the pseud repeller
you tell me yourself- what does that make you?

>> No.12586173

>>12586063
Austen died before Queen Victoria was even born, dumb pseud

>> No.12586200

>>12586060
??
He was an absolute sensation in his day. And he's been consistently read ever since.

>> No.12586211

>>12586200
>falling for pasta

>> No.12586222

>>12586060
stop trying to make this shitty pasta a meme

>> No.12586223

>>12586222
too late

>> No.12586956

You can't discuss Dickens, Hawthorne, Austen, Scott, or Defoe on this board. Everyone here is afraid of long sentences, but they're also afraid of feeling like pseuds for reading books with short ones. So we settle for Pynchon and Joyce