Romeo or Benedick?Knightley or Tilney?Jack or Algernon?John Brooke or Laurie?Gilbert or Barney? Do you prefer the more traditional romantic leading men? Or the ones with personality. You can probably tell from that whom I prefer :/ How about the more popular or the overlook/rejected?Will or Norrington?Darcy or Bingley?Rochester or St. John Rivers?Pip or Herbert?
Tag: Charles Dickens
Pickwick Papers
I had tried this novel before and this time around I took awhile to warm up to it, but then I enjoyed it greatly. Well, I enjoyed the Wellers immensely anyway. The plot was intentionally mishmash, if you could even say that the book had a plot. The tone varied from the lightest type of… Continue reading Pickwick Papers
Our Mutual Friend Review
*SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* *SPOILERS* I recommend complete ignorance for first time readers (which means do not read covers, reviews, prefaces, chapter headings, and etc.). I remembered a little of what my sister told me (albeit it was sometimes quite a distorted memory) as I read and constantly referred to the headings of future chapters. Oh, Eugene.… Continue reading Our Mutual Friend Review
Bleak House Review
So I did not entirely like this novel. Oh, I enjoyed it while I read it, but I found many aspects that I did not like. I found Esther rather irritating. I thought her false modesty and silly “innocence” of why other people like her was extremely annoying; true humility and goodness do not focus… Continue reading Bleak House Review
Review of Little Dorrit
The miniseries preview first somewhat inspired me to know this story. I was not ready for Dickens at this point, and when I picked up the book and perused it, Mr. Clennam’s age and that awful Pet disgusted me. I still loathe Pet and her family. How dare she exist for Clennam to love. How… Continue reading Review of Little Dorrit
Nicholas Nickleby 2000
I did not watch this film entirely by myself and did not sit down and take notes afterward. I do not remember the other film adaptation well at all, so I cannot really compare very much. I watched this movie in the spring so my memory will be even less clear. ~Neither of the Nicholas… Continue reading Nicholas Nickleby 2000
David Copperfield Review
I started/skipped through this novel a couple times, so I was familiar with much of the story. The beginning is so gloomy I just picked up where I started last year. This book seemed to have a series of hurdles I had to overcome. The first is the Murdstones, but I had mostly got through… Continue reading David Copperfield Review
Hard Times Review
This novel caught my interest faster than the other Dickens’ novels that I have read. A brief glance at either the preface or introduction indicated that this novel is about a quarter the size of some of his other works which explains the lack of filler and tedious drag of plot and/or over-filled plot. I… Continue reading Hard Times Review
Great Expectations 2012 Film Adaptation
The film-makers took the Pride and Prejudice 2005 approach: dumbing down and modernizing the story for the non-literature reading public 😛 How could I have thought the other film over-dramatized? I should not have been surprised, this is the Downton Abbey generation after all. Great Expectations is too understated, so lets ramp up the drama so the sensitive people… Continue reading Great Expectations 2012 Film Adaptation
Great Expectations 1999
I watched my first Great Expectations film/T.V. adaption in its three hour entirety in one sitting about 1-2 months ago at home alone. I then immediately sat down and scribbled out a bunch of thoughts. Apparently watching a movie in its entirety on the T.V. by myself seems to inspire me to reflect on the film… Continue reading Great Expectations 1999
Nicholas Nickleby
I laughed out loud several times. I read somewhere how someone thought Nicholas was boring, I didn’t think so, but at the end I got annoyed with him about the whole “honor” issue with himself and Madeline and then also Frank and Kate. The description of the maiden lady and bachelor brother is ridiculous. I… Continue reading Nicholas Nickleby
Great Expectations
So, um. I read to about the middle of this novel years ago (as in possibly like six; I am ancient, I could read at this level six years ago?!). I put it down because it was my sister’s copy, and I was mad at her (that was the reason, I kid you not). I… Continue reading Great Expectations