Rant about Dickens
Jan. 30th, 2006 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandralThis is just a rant, but I just can’t curb my feelings. **
The rant stems form the watching ”Our mutual friend” - very well-made adaptation, lovely actors, settings, and altogether great 8 hours of watching.. Truly, the dramatization was really good!
Nonetheless, I just must say that I don’t like Dickens. I feel very weird saying it. His first book I have read was “Oliver Twist” . It was saccharine, sentimental and had little boys dying. Was a string-pulling sort of book for me. I have also read “Nickolas Nickelby” and this book made the same impression – saccharine plus dying. I found this book and “David Kopperfield” also very long and **gasp** boring. I haven’t finished “David Copperfield”. If I don’t like the book, I usually quickly look at the ending to get to know what happened and leave it. I never can read a book I am not interested in **Feels very guilty**
I have watched few TV series made from the Dickens books, but it is not really fare to make an impression about the book writer from the series..
I am torn and wrong, but I don’t like:
1. There seem to be same types of characters in every book : Poor but saint girl, Old childless couple of saints, dying boy, Scheming underworld characters…
2. The stores are far-fetched – lost children, false identities, inheritances..
3. There is always somebody dying FOR A VERY LONG PEROID of book-time from consumption, or wounds..
4. Too much saccharine
5. Too long
UPDATE This all said,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dangermousie just reminded me (thank you!!) that The Pickwick Papers Is Dickens's book too. AND - I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE PICKWICK PAPERS, but again, this book is a little different from the rest ;)
I am dissatisfied with myself , I AM A BAD-TASTED person who doesn’t appreciate one of the greatest English writers O WOE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??????????
The rant stems form the watching ”Our mutual friend” - very well-made adaptation, lovely actors, settings, and altogether great 8 hours of watching.. Truly, the dramatization was really good!
Nonetheless, I just must say that I don’t like Dickens. I feel very weird saying it. His first book I have read was “Oliver Twist” . It was saccharine, sentimental and had little boys dying. Was a string-pulling sort of book for me. I have also read “Nickolas Nickelby” and this book made the same impression – saccharine plus dying. I found this book and “David Kopperfield” also very long and **gasp** boring. I haven’t finished “David Copperfield”. If I don’t like the book, I usually quickly look at the ending to get to know what happened and leave it. I never can read a book I am not interested in **Feels very guilty**
I have watched few TV series made from the Dickens books, but it is not really fare to make an impression about the book writer from the series..
I am torn and wrong, but I don’t like:
1. There seem to be same types of characters in every book : Poor but saint girl, Old childless couple of saints, dying boy, Scheming underworld characters…
2. The stores are far-fetched – lost children, false identities, inheritances..
3. There is always somebody dying FOR A VERY LONG PEROID of book-time from consumption, or wounds..
4. Too much saccharine
5. Too long
UPDATE This all said,
dangermousie just reminded me (thank you!!) that The Pickwick Papers Is Dickens's book too. AND - I ABSOLUTELY ADORE THE PICKWICK PAPERS, but again, this book is a little different from the rest ;)I am dissatisfied with myself , I AM A BAD-TASTED person who doesn’t appreciate one of the greatest English writers O WOE! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME??????????
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Date: 2006-01-31 01:11 am (UTC)What did you think about "North and South" - the book, about the things they have changed in TV? My least favourite (i really quite dislike this one, REALLY) is the fact that they made Mr. Thornton beat his employee in the film, where he just shouted at him in the book. I just can not see a magistrate beating his employee in those times, and not Mr. Thornton.
**Shoud sleep. My eyes are closing **