/lit/ - Literature

Why don't you love Dickens?

Worth reading?

Name a bigger pleb filter.

For me, it's Our Mutual Friend.

For me, it's Our Mutual Friend

I'm reading A Tale of Two Cities at the moment and it's boring as fuck. I'm at page 166. Does it get better?
and Recommend me a good book, please. Something published after 2015.

What do you think of Dickens?
I can stand neither his style nor his subject matter.

The great English novel was written by Dickens but which one was it?

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Jung literally said that he was more influenced by Carus than Freud, and I believe from memory stated that he was more in the group of Carus than Freudianism. The latter's influence on Jung has been extraordinary overstated, and yet no one mentions the massive influence Jung had on Freud. It is true, however that Jung did not mind using the renown for the name Freud that so many had oddly harboured in the 20th century.

Jung's major influences had been Schopenhauer, Kant, Carus and Hartmann. At least early in his "psychology"(it's really more of a philosophy), he was not influenced by the esoteric until after he had already started to investigate a mystical presence in mans life, and from this his array of visions and spiritual reflections during mid-life.

My first thoughts when seeing Osho speak, were nothing other than, "he is an idiot." A great man must be earnest, a little man can be earnest too, but I do not see earnestness in Osho at all. Compared to this man, Dickens or Carlyle provide the material of far better prophets.

where does one begin with Dickens?

He is overrated, and gets utterly BTFO'd by Eliot, Hardy, Thackeray, and even Trollope.

So what does /lit/ think about my man Charles Dickens?

What does /lit/ think of him?

What's your favorite Charles Dickens book, /lit/?

I've just started Great Expectations and so far I'm really enjoying it.

What do we think about Charles Dick in the year of our Lord 2020?

>Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (/ˈdJkJnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.[1] His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius.

What are some authors who you feel like people try to tear down to the point where it's hard to sell people on them? I feel like I can't mention the name Dickens without hearing that questionable "He wrote by the word, you know!!" exclamation burst from somebody's lips.

In this chapter I'm about to quote from a Tale of Two Cities, a mail-coach is making its way up a hill in the dark of night.

"What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow inscrutables inside. To whom, likewise, the shadows of the night revealed themselves, in the forms their dozing eyes and wandering thoughts suggested"

Do you understand this passage immediately? Because after really analyzing it, I understand that it's describing the mail-coach going up the hill, and then saying that the passengers are seeing things in the dark that aren't there. The problem is that it's pretty much every paragraph that I'm struggling with. I understand what's going on generally, but find little meaning in most of the text and it's not an issue of vocabulary.

I can't say I've read much literature and I wonder if it's just that I'm not used to older styles of expression? Generally I would just keep reading since I understand vaguely what's going on, but it's hard to enjoy a book like that and I was really hoping to enjoy this one. Any thoughts?

Now that London is gentrified, Dickens doesn't hold up.

>Capitalism would be fixed if rich people asked "wwjd?"
Well, was he right?

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Dickens had 2 wives a mistress and 10 children
Leo Tolstoy had 14 kids i think
Mark Twain had 4

Great Expectations. A Tale of Two Cities. Oliver Twist. Bleak House. David Copperfield. Little Dorrit. Nicholas Nickleby. Martin Chuzzlewit.

How did this fucking Anglo manage to write so many classic works?

What is his magnum opus? Where do I start?What do I think about him?

Does he really suck or is it just a /lit/ meme?