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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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[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.