http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/ Reading and Writing Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-1007 matariki Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:26:53 +0000 http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-1007 I must confess that the last time I read Dickens was as a child. I was a devourer at that stage, gobbling books as though they were meals, but far too young to make any real sense of many of them. This little taste has given me the desire to go back to someone who I thought I was done with. Thanks! I must confess that the last time I read Dickens was as a child. I was a devourer at that stage, gobbling books as though they were meals, but far too young to make any real sense of many of them.
This little taste has given me the desire to go back to someone who I thought I was done with.
Thanks!

]]> http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-1006 LK Mon, 04 Jun 2007 21:44:52 +0000 http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-1006 Interesting....your two posts on Oliver Twist make me want to go back and reread it! Interesting….your two posts on Oliver Twist make me want to go back and reread it!

]]> http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-995 Tai Sat, 02 Jun 2007 00:54:27 +0000 http://smithereens.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/dickens-oliver-twist-1838/#comment-995 I love Dickens, but you have hit on the very elements that make this particular novel the one I have not been able to get through. One wants to excuse it by saying he is a writer of his time, but more to the point, he was a popular writer, and gave the people what he knew they wanted to read. I love Dickens, but you have hit on the very elements that make this particular novel the one I have not been able to get through. One wants to excuse it by saying he is a writer of his time, but more to the point, he was a popular writer, and gave the people what he knew they wanted to read.

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