Charles Dickens

[CopyCarver]

re: eBay listing

Buyer pays shipping and handling on eBay purchases if you announce that fact in the listing. If not, the seller gets stuck. At least, that's the way my account works--there seem to be different flavors. It's easy to specify that the buyer pays, however. PayPal will collect the shipping costs along with the bid, if you have--or quickly set up--an account. EBay even has an online postage calculator--you plug in the weight and the destination and the computer quotes a rate.

It's definitely worth the minimal extra effort. I once sold four large art books to a lady in New Zealand for $100. Postage was $63--good thing she was paying the shipping fees.

 

[sweetnpetite]

You've got it the wrong way around- Raold Dahl reminds you of Charles Dickens (who, after all, is his predicessor by howver many year)

Well, naturally I realize this, but to me they are basically the same thing.

 

[3113]

He is so manipulative in his begging, scraping way. I can't figure out if he'd be a secret sub or dom.

He's a sub who tops from the bottom

 

[3113]

I greatly admire Dickens; at his best he is one of the best. However, his main heroes are usually passive and insipid, his central heroines worse than that. He also never quite knows how to end a story. Let's face it, it's the side characters that made him famous and they are marvelous.

I do read Xmas Carol every December--I think it's one of the best Ghost Stories ever. Which is why I never think it's done completely right...those dramatizing it often forget it's a ghost story and meant to be scary.

I remember with great fondness going to see the 9-hour long Nicholas Nickleby on stage. Marvelous experience--and Dickens certainly translates to stage better than movies, I think, because he does have elements of Victorian melodrama, and because his side characters are so colorful. Even the small parts are great parts for actors to riff on.

Dickens is at his best, I think, when there's a live audience booing the bad guys, cheering on the good guys, gasping at the twists and turns, and laughing out-loud at the jokes and comicial characters. When, in short, the audience feels that they're friends with the characters and part of the story--which was rather like the original Dickens experience as families often read each chapter aloud. Very much a "storytelling" event, with the narrator taking on the voices of all those different characters.

I just don't know if he works as well on the big screen or television screen for that matter, where the audience is generally quiet and passive rather than an active participant.

 

[sweetnpetite]

Fezziwig
Bumble
Mrs Corney
Mrs Mann
Mr Sowerberry
Blathers
Duff
Ham Peggotty
Creakle
Charles Mell
Rosa Dartle
Miss Mowcher
Littimer
Mrs. Crupp
Samuel Pickwick
Nathaniel Winkle
Augustus Snodgrass
Tracy Tupman
Alfred Jingle
Job Trotter
Mr. Wardle
Rachael Wardle
Mrs. Joe Gargery
Wopsle
Uncle Pumblechook
Miss Havisham
Estella
Biddy
Herbert Pocket

I've got to remember to be brave and use names like this!!!

 

[Tio_Narratore]

OK, some folks may not be a Dickens fan, but I am. I think he's wonderful- imaginative plots, interesting characters and the best names ever.

Fezziwig
Bumble
Mrs Corney
Mrs Mann
Mr Sowerberry
Blathers
Duff
Ham Peggotty
Creakle
Charles Mell
Rosa Dartle
Miss Mowcher
Littimer
Mrs. Crupp
Samuel Pickwick
Nathaniel Winkle
Augustus Snodgrass
Tracy Tupman
Alfred Jingle
Job Trotter
Mr. Wardle
Rachael Wardle
Mrs. Joe Gargery
Wopsle
Uncle Pumblechook
Miss Havisham
Estella
Biddy
Herbert Pocket



the names he picks, reminds me of Roald Dahl and I love him to.

I haven't read even close to all I want of Dickens. I've only read parts of A Christmas Carol and Oliver Twist, but read and loved (one of my favorites) Great Expectations. [hated most of the movie, but loved Estella played so cold and heartless-what can I say, I'd had my own heart broken recently].

I get the sence that he must have had fun writing those crazy stories with those funny names and crazy colorful characters. And still, he put a lot of serious things, such as political and social comentary in them.

I've adopted Charles Dickens as my new literary idol. Although I doubt that my erotic fiction will change much But who knows.

OK, How about...

Mr. Squeers, who runs the young men's school, Dotheboys Hall in Nicholas Nickelby.

or is it Mrs. Queers of 'Do the boys' Hall?

Oh Dear! Now we can't have Dickens on Lit!

 

[elfin_odalisque]

I've got to remember to be brave and use names like this!!!

To add to your list;

Trotty Veck
Mrs Peerybingle
Caleb Plummer
Mr Snitchey. . .

He wrote several Xmas stories apart from Christmas Carol. There's The Chimes - set around a ghostly Church and ringing in New Year, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man.

Dickens is sometimes credited with 'inventing' the English Christmas. Certainly, these five stories cover family love the delights of home and the plight of the poor and all well worth a read.