I've only read A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and Hard Times. I'm thinking of going back to Dickens this summer, what order would you suggest reading the rest of his works in?
>>25217406>A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectationswhich of these did you like more?
>>25217435Great Expectations the most, I also liked Hard Times, and as for A Tale of Two Cities, I can't say I liked it, but I can't say I didn't like it either.
>>25217406Read pickwick paper next, and make sure to keep something like old curiosity shop and our mutual friend in the last order, those two are... well we can say that they are written and reserved for diehard dickens fans and not everyone
>>25217406David Copperfield is his best, in my opinion at least, so either read it first or save it for last. But I'd suggest not overdoing it with Dickens. I feel he works best in small doses, like maybe one novel a year. In my experience he's one of the authors you can quickly grow sick of if you read him too much. Could just be a personal thing, but too much of his particular kind of whimsiness annoys me to no end.
>>25217486I agree, although I find Dickens' novels interesting and beautiful, I feel a certain difficulty in reading them, because at least in the beginning they are quite difficult and boring. Great Expectations is probably one of the exceptions.
David Copperfield was excellent when he was a child with the Murdstones. Afterwards it is meandering schlock that has barely any relevance to the story besides a couple of chapters. Chapter 4 is one of my favorite things I have ever read, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. I had to stop 2/3rds of the way through because I couldn't keep pushing on. I had difficulty caring about adult David. I have realized that serialized fiction is pretty bad as a whole. I've heard tale of two cities is tighter because he wrote it in a shorter timeframe.
