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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
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.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
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.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.
My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.
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.