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Old 05-18-2022, 11:36 AM   #4 (permalink)
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First off, welcome to the forum.
Second, welcome to my journal.
As I said in the intro, initially I was a little dismissive of Dickens' style, thinking it overly wordy, until someone pointed out that at the time most of his stuff was written much of England couldn't read, and so the descriptive prose was more suited to being read out, either in performance or by one person to a group, the one in a number perhaps who could not read. I recognised his genius - always did; I could pick it out of a lineup easily - but didn't particularly like his style. Since reading his novels (all of them bar Chuzzelwit, which we both agreed was boring and seemed to be going nowhere, and which seems to have been the prevailing wisdom at the time too, as it sold poorly) I've become a real fan.

I still think ACC is a masterpiece. Viewed through the lens of nearly two centuries later, yes, it may seem as you describe, but for its time it was pretty ground-breaking.
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