I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.
'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.