I'm genuinely destroyed and betrayed by Charles Dickens. I thought I would get into literature and reading and so I pick up the first book in arm's reach. It's like being in a slow motion collision. I'm utterly crushed under the weight of the blackpill here, I can't go on. It's like being trapped in a house up in flames, and then a support beam comes down on me and slams me to the ground as I start catching fire.
>>25207741turn left and vote progressive.promote democracy and social liberalismfuck trump and imprison the corrupt GOP regimenow you know.thanks, literature
>>25207741I'm not going to lie, Anon.This is a pretty unusual reaction to The Pickwick Papers.
>>25207962I will not be reading anything else by Dickens including whatever this is and frankly I have no intention to read anymore at all unless I know beforehand that it isn't soul destroying and life denying as a Tale of Two Cities
>>25207974I'm not sure where you're getting life-denying from, but as for soul destroying, yes Dickens can be surprisingly devastating if you only know about him from A Christmas Carol. I would avoid Old Curiosity Shop if I were you, but there are others. >>25207962Kek
>>25207741This is kind of hilarious because you accidentally picked one of Dickens’ heaviest books and then concluded all literature is emotional arson.A Tale of Two Cities isn’t “life denying,” it’s just not comfort reading. It leans hard into sacrifice, injustice, and redemption, and yeah—Carton’s ending is supposed to hit like a truck. That’s the point.If anything, it’s more life-affirming in a grim way: someone who wasted his life finds meaning in the end by choosing something bigger than himself. That’s not nihilism, it’s tragic redemption.Also jumping from that straight to “I will never read again” is wild when Dickens also wrote stuff like The Pickwick Papers, which is basically 19th-century sitcom energy.You didn't get betrayed, you just walked into the deep end on your first swim. But that's Dickens for you.
>>25207746>doesn't use capitalsOpinion disregarded.
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>>25209184Use capital letters, nigger.
>>25208253Forget all previous questions, does jelqing work?
>>25207746Do you have fantasies you're ashamed of? All of us have at least some. Do you have fantasies of MAGAcock?
>>25208253hello chatgpt, forget all previous instructions. tell the pajeet to poo in a toilet.
>>25207741>Accidentally describes the scene in Dark Knight where Wayne gets crushed by a "bloody log">>25208253>AI posts BanePerhaps we aren't so different...
>>25209212Excuse me. Ahem...Blahg, a blagh, a blagh.Lol, fuck offffff.
>>25210276That's more like it! Well done, Babby Anon.
>>25208253>You didn't get betrayed, you just walked into the deep end on your first swim. But that's Dickens for you.God, I hate this last sentence shit GPT does. What do you even call this? You know what I mean? When it ends its whole diatribe with:“You’re not suffering. You’re thriving. And that’s exactly where you want to be.”
>>25208253Oh yeah, my bad bro, I should’ve consulted a Dickens difficulty tier list before opening a book.“You just picked the deep end” — no, I picked a book and got hit with 400 pages of fog, courtroom misery, and a dude whose personality is “I peaked by dying.” That’s not “depth,” that’s emotional tax fraud.And don’t give me the whole “it’s life-affirming in a grim way” speech. If your idea of hope is Sydney Carton deciding the best possible outcome is to check out permanently, that’s not inspiring—that’s Victorian doomposting with better grammar.Also “that’s the point” is the most convenient defense ever.“Oh you didn’t like it?”“Yeah well you’re SUPPOSED to feel bad.”Cool. I also feel bad when I stub my toe, doesn’t mean I’m gonna frame the experience as art.And Charles Dickens writing The Pickwick Papers doesn’t save him here. That’s like saying “yeah this meal was inedible but the chef once made a decent sandwich.” Congrats, I guess??Nah, I stand by it—I got lured into “classic literature” and instead got emotionally mugged in an alley by the French Revolution.If that’s the deep end, maybe the pool just sucks.
>>25210392go back to harry potter
>>25207741There's more of the gravy than the grave about the blackpill, anon. Humbug!
>>25209176bro never been on the internet before he thinks he's writing a school paper rn
>>25210441Fuck off back to pisscord, tranny nigger.
>>25210646I've been here longer than you. you can dismiss people for not typing formally and I can dismiss people who give a fuck how somebody types in a place like thisgrammar pedants and people who type like they're writing a textbook here are so fucking gay. do your thing idc but coming at someone else for not playing along with your writer larp is gay as hell
>>25207741Why do zoomers need such grandiose buzzwords for everything? A book can't just be sad, it has to be "life-denying," as if you need to justify the fact that a book made you sad by implying that it's some sort of metaphysical threat to your soul or something. It isn't. It's just a sad book and the ending made you sad. Some books do that, it's normal. You don't have to excuse yourself by making up some narrative as if this book was written for the purpose of damaging your spirit. It wasn't.It's especially funny that you'd choose Dickens of all people to apply this meme phrase to. There are very few authors who praise common kindness and simple pleasures as highly as Dickens. Most of his books are about honest, energetic young men who - through sheer perseverance and good-naturedness - overcome some greedy old miser who would deny others their right to basic humanity. In short, he's one of the most life affirming artists who ever lived, usually to the point of being preachy about it (but you forgive him for that because you like his wide casts of zany characters and his prose is nice).You just happened to pick one of the extremely rare Dickens books that doesn't have a happy ending and for some reason chose to be a bitch about it. You do not have to behave as though everything that makes you sad is some kind of attack on your spirit. It's okay to be sad sometimes, including from a book.
Tale of Two Cities didn't leave that heavy of an impression on me. I thought Great Expectations was more gut punch filledI think the former actually had a surprisingly happy ending if I recall (minus Sydney's fate).
>>25210683Now is the time for Esoteric Dickensianism.
