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[phosfate]

What in hell's wrong with me? Is this a bug, or stress, or some extreme neurosis?

I'm getting very fed up with being sick and tired.

In other news, I started David Copperfield. Little Davy has already got himself a nice new stepfather, so I'm sure everything will work out.

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[cageyklio.livejournal.com]

Expect the fangs and scales to sprout any day now. Probably a side effect of eating too many crayons.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I DO NOT EAT CRAYONS!!!

I told you, I just stick them up my nose.

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

Well, then stop taking all those decongestants! They aren't gonna do a thing for the crayons.

[tsamm.livejournal.com]

Hey--I'm reading Nicholas Nickleby! Shitty weather must bring out the Dickens in people.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid of Nicholas Nickelby. The size reminds me of the time in college I had to do Little Dorritt in nine hours. Good stuff?

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[tsamm.livejournal.com]

I'm liking it a lot. It's an earlier one so it feels more like a serialized novel--it's not as polished, I don't think (later installments contradict information in the earlier ones in a few places), as DC or LD. (I'm sorry you had to read LD so fast--it's so good, and I'll bet that the cramming ruined it for you.) NN has got ACTORS and ACTING in it, and that's very funny, plus evil moneylenders and corrupt schoolmasters and young virtuous women and men struggling to support themselves against most daunting odds . . . in short, it's Dickens through and through.

The TV miniseries of NN was really good--and in most major things actually followed the plot of the book, which was astounding (although certain things were excised).

But DC isn't all that short, is it? I mean, we're still talking 600 good pages, I'm guessing--maybe even 800! I haven't read that one, I admit with embarrassment . . . really should do so.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I can second your embarrassment, since I've never read it either...or Oliver Twist, or most of the other standards. I took a whole semester of Dickens in college, but we did weird shit like LD and bits of The Pickwick Papers, because of course we'd all already read the basic stuff. Yeah.

DC isn't short, but I don't mind that so much as the weight (it's a friggin' hardback), which means I can't take it out of the house (there's a CS Lewis paperback in my bag). I will try NN, then, assuming I can find my copy. I don't know if I can ever face LD again. For me it's good old-fashioned nightmare fodder. On the other hand, readng it properly might make that go away...

[roxann-ireland.livejournal.com]

Did you ever see the play they did of NN? They did it over, like, four nights, so it was a real commitment to buy tickets. It sold out anyway, though. I saw it on TV on PBS. It was amazingly good. The guy who played the crippled kid was amazing.

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[tsamm.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard of the play before; maybe the miniseries was based on it. I hope PBS will run it again sometime--I'd love to see it.

When NN was being published, people wrote and performed plays based on it--for money--before the novel had actually been *finished.* Evidently, they'd just make up whatever ending seemed right.

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

You're a braver man than I. I was supposed to read David Copperfield in high school. I wound up reading only three chapters then resorted to Cliff Notes. That's the only book I every did Notes instead of actually reading. I still remember telling my English teacher my summary of it: "How I existed miserably and lived to regret it." Everytime I hear the title I think of the SNL skit "David Copperthwate".

Funny thing is, I grew to really like Dickens. I highly recommend "Bleak House". Despite the title, it's very enjoyable, and it's a wry satire of the legal system.

However, I've never managed to finish David Copperfield.