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Charles Dickens

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Victorian English novelist discussed as being better than reputation suggests, with humor and prose style compared to Terry Pratchett.

Mentions (7)
"On my first day one of my co-workers saw me and yelled out 'This n——a look like the son on Family Guy!'. For the next six months my name at work was Chris Griffin. Charles Dickens never could have imagined times as hard as those."
"My sister is 22 years old, fresh outta college. Making only $99k a year yet she has to live with a roommate just to get by?? What the fuck are we living in a goddamn Dickens novel? Is this how it is now??"
"The day Trump won was one of the saddest. - Charles Dickens"
"Edgar Allen Poe's famous raven poem was written about Charles Dickens' pet raven, of which he was a big fan."
Autistic Bird Enjoyers of History · u/foxaru · ↑67 · 2022-09-25
"Ok, I get the notion that there being a sharp distinction between high and low brow art is an exaggeration; I get that people like Charles Dickens or Shakespeare have elements of both, for instance."
Separate high and low brow art again · u/TheBigAristotle69 · ↑38 · 2024-01-09
"Edgar Allen Poe's famous raven poem was written about Charles Dickens' pet raven, of which he was a big fan."
Autistic Bird Enjoyers of History · u/foxaru · ↑67 · 2022-09-25
"I always heard 'lol so boring he was paid by the word' and sure the emphasis is on prose and characters over plot but sometimes thats OK. Also its made me laugh on the train like an idiot more than once. kind of similar style to terry pratchett? but better"
Dickens is actually good? · u/meinung_racht_ich · ↑25 · 2022-09-22
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