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absurdabsurd:
That depends on what Dickens you're reading.
It's rare that an author has gotten such differing reactions from me between works - A Tale of Two Cities is still one of my favourite books, but I've never managed to get through any of his others.
But I mean dude, Sydney Carton. Me at 12/13 had such a massive crush on that character from the very first page he graced, non-chalantly and arrogantly lounging about in that court-room... HE COULD HAVE BEEN A ROCK STAR!
To be fair, I haven't re-read it since then, so maybe I am romanticizing things in my memory.
Border Reiver:
I've read some Dickens, and the man is a product of his time. But if alive today he would be writing about social problems in a way that the general public would find entertaining and thought provoking as a means of trying to get us to change how we treat out fellow humans.
CursedMortivore:
Fahrenheit 451. Read this in 10th grade literature class. Book blew my mind right onto the wall. And other stuff like Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies. Mucho enjoyable all of them. Though it has been a while since I read them, so my opinion might be colored.
Books I've read recently that I've loved: American Gods, Anansi Boys, and Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (I know I may sound like a goth-wannabe teenage girl by saying that, but damn the dude can write books like no one's business)
jimbunny:
People need to read more poetry (and not write so much). Start with Emily Dickinson (that is, all the stuff you haven't read fifty bazillion times in anthologies, and take the edition with the most dashes). Wallace Stevens. e. e. cummings. Pablo Neruda. Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Like it should be read: in books, not anthologies (keep a few on hand, though, for when you need ideas of where to look next).
Uber Ritter:
Ooooohhh...Poetry!
I really like TS Eliot. Still first in my heart as far as lyric poetry is concerned. Also good are John Donne, George Herbert and, for a poet that is still alive and is really, really good, Derek Walcott. Donne and Herbert are Jacobean, writing immediately after Shakespeare, but considerably more 'artful' and self-conscious in the poetry, and Donne at least ranges over a greater array of subjects. Walcott is very grounded in traditional literature for a contemporary poet--he obviously grew up reading Shakespeare and the King James Bible, but his verse is somehow peculiarly caribean in its rhythm, which is generally kind of languid and very beautiful.
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