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Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:49:03 2015 No.6070632 [Reply] [Original]

Charles Dickens fucking sucks.

Discuss

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:52:04 2015 No.6070645 TTKM thread. Sage.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:54:29 2015 No.6070659 He was the worst kind of Socialist, Anti-Business asshole, that's for sure. No one who genuinely understands the importance of a free market economy is at all a fan of Dickens.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:57:09 2015 No.6070672 Stick to YA, OP. Seems more your level.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:57:27 2015 No.6070674 >>6070645 >TKKM Those Australian guys?

Anonymous Thu Jan 29 19:59:16 2015 No.6070688
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Why the fuck is every other thread on this board becoming some fat dude insulting massive literary figures? Like for fuck sake I know good threads are diamonds in the rough on the taste boards but that doesn't mean every all the other threads have to be shit

Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:02:01 2015 No.6070699

>>6070688

Because 4chan is and always has been the hangout of teenage dipshits who think they are being original and iconoclastic by saying "Shakespeare/Dickens/Austin sure sucks, man!" and then giggling to themselves at the flurry of angry responses

That's probably also the reason for the ridiculously stupid Nazi and Communist threads that show up on /lit/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:02:36 2015 No.6070704 >>6070688 Lack of quality control means nobody has to try.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:04:54 2015 No.6070726 >>6070699 Shakespeare is fantastic. Dickens is fucking lame. And Jane Austen is legitimately one of the worst authors of all time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:05:57 2015 No.6070733 I love Dickens (saged)

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:08:00 2015 No.6070748 >>6070733 Mind if I give you a few good Dickens?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:09:20 2015 No.6070752 File: 27 KB, 256x256, O-Face_egoraptor-256x256.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6070748

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:26:12 2015 No.6070836 >>6070659 He was against child labour, relax /pol/

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:45:32 2015 No.6070926 File: 23 KB, 300x237, trollope.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6070632 Agree, fuck Mr Popular Sentiment. This is now a Trollope thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 20:56:39 2015 No.6070976 >>6070836 He was more anti-business in general Read A Christmas Carol

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 21:47:06 2015 No.6071211 >>6070726 _____________ is fantastic. _______ is fucking lame. And ______________ is legitimately one of the worst authors of all time. Why do you fuckheads even bother with this kind of minimal effort bullshit? It's genuinely perplexing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:04:18 2015 No.6071275 >>6070632 I feel like Dickens' primary goal in writing was to see how many words he could use to elicit a single chuckle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:07:24 2015 No.6071285 >>6070632 Agreed. Nigger always gets me with the first bit of the book, and by the end I hate him.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:10:14 2015 No.6071295 >>6071211 >>6071211 _______________________. Why do you ________ even bother with this kind of minimal effort _______? It's genuinely perplexing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:44:11 2015 No.6071416 >>6071275 Considering he was literally paid by the word, probably.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:47:22 2015 No.6071424 >>6070726 >>6071211 >>6071295 _______________________________? _________________________. ____

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 29 22:50:41 2015 No.6071441 More like Charles Shitkens amirtie??

Anonymous Thu Jan 29 23:08:06 2015 No.6071494
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>>6071416
>people still believe this myth

Hugo and Dumas were paid by the word. Dickens published a lot of his stuff in his own serial journal. Why the fuck would he pay himself by the word if it would just take up more space in his journal that could have other writers in it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 00:31:02 2015 No.6071764 Fuck off. A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House are GOAT.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 00:44:45 2015 No.6071789 English Balzac with ridiculous character names

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 00:53:43 2015 No.6071825 Everything I have read about him has made him seem like a cold, hateful prick. Strange then that his writing can be so maudlin

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 00:55:08 2015 No.6071827 >>6071764 this. add The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield as well

>>	« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » Fri Jan 30 01:11:52 2015 No.6071855 I liked what Orwell had to say about him.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 01:19:35 2015 No.6071871 >>6070659 >No one who genuinely understands the importance of a free market economy is at all a fan of Dickens. So first year financial/business majors. Cool, got it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 01:37:44 2015 No.6071901 >>6070976 A Christmas Carol is about charity, it's not anti-business it's anti-greed, anti-pride, and anti-asshole.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 03:11:43 2015 No.6072052 >>6070632 >getting paid by the word

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 13:55:21 2015 No.6073565 >>6071901 And you don't see that as contradictory at all?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 13:57:37 2015 No.6073572 Dickens is a pretty cool guy

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:00:05 2015 No.6073577

>>6071901
Charity is a shackle in and of itself.

>I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:00:41 2015 No.6073579 >>6070659 bedtime, Limbaugh

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:01:15 2015 No.6073580 >>6073579 teenage leftist detected >>>/r/eddit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:05:01 2015 No.6073596 >>6073580 >>/lit/?task=search&ghost=&search_text=%22teenage+leftist%22 In case you wanted to re-read a few of your posts.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:05:06 2015 No.6073597

>>6070632

>Memorable characters;
>Interesting plots;
>Fertile;
>Capable of using imagery and metaphors when he wanted to;
>Extremely alert to every small detail of human behavior;
>Had knowledge of life and of several professions and crafts;
>Respect and loved by great writers like Nabokov and Tolstoy;
>Had a routine and worked on his writing as any craftsman in his craft (was not some of this romantics or hipsters that wait for inspiration to work).

He is greater than a lot of /lit/ boys like DFW, Pynchon and Cormac.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:07:58 2015 No.6073599 >>6073577 And which hard working men are supposed to give up the time and effort which could be spent on bettering themselves to lead or drive the poor out of poverty, Mr Marx?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:10:19 2015 No.6073613 >>6073599 Benjamin Franklin said that.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:10:39 2015 No.6073617 >>6073580 >anyone with brains enough to call into question Invisible Hands and Faith in Human Nature is a teenage leftist

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:12:00 2015 No.6073622 >>6073613 I don't think it really matters which socialist said it, none of them have anything worthwhile to say.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:13:15 2015 No.6073626 >>6073622 Are there welfare success stories?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:14:50 2015 No.6073632 >>6073597 >fertile You're gonna have to explain this one.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:18:10 2015 No.6073640 >>6073632 He wrote a lot of good books in his career, nut just one or a few. He had a fertile brain and a serious work-routine that allowed him to give birth to several masterpieces.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:35:33 2015 No.6073696 >>6073640 Your vocabulary is creepy and I think you are a pervert.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:39:12 2015 No.6073712 >>6073696 I am neither British nor American, so I tend to use words that are Latinized. They are only strange for you, but not for me. Dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:43:25 2015 No.6073736 >>6073712 I'm not British or American either. I just don't want to have to think about Charles Dickens giving birth.

Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:45:35 2015 No.6073745
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Just finished re-reading Tale of Two Cities, somebody tell dis nigga that Jerry Cruncher isn't all that funny; there's no need to repeatedly describe his hairstyle; why are we supposed to enjoy laughing at his 8-year-old son and battered wife; also
>what's "show don't tell"
x9000

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:49:37 2015 No.6073766 >>6073736 Thank you for these laughs, friends

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 30 14:54:08 2015 No.6073787 >>6070726 >>6071211 >>6071295 >>6071424 -_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________-

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