redpill me on charles dickens

>>9062858

Take the bluepill in this case. He's a very entertaining author with a wonderful prose style and a great imagination for characters and settings. Pretty much every one of his novels is at least very good.

Also don't fall for the "paid by the word" meme. He was paid per installment.

Fuckwick club was quite amusing

>>9062919
yeah, this frustrates me a little. the guy was a genius. though, david copperfield was way too fucking long.

>>9062930
reminded me quite a bit of don quixote
laughed just as much too

At his best, he is perhaps the greatest novelist in our language. At his worst, he's unreadable.

What is /it/'s general consensus on Great Expectations?

>>9063105
>/lit/
>concensus
cmon buddy.

>>9063114
>consensus
excuse me, /lit/.
what is YOUR opinion of Great Expectations?

>>9063124
s'aright. tale of two cities was my favorite of his, that fucking funeral riot was amazing.

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>>9063105
i guess u have ur answer

>>9062858
>red pill in dickens

Dude, he hated the government and did a lot to fuck them

>>9062858
Great Expectations is about what happens when Pip (his name is an anagram of "ipp" the chosen one predicted my Miss Havisham) swallows the bitter pill that all reality as he has ever known it was a fiction perpetrated upon him by a criminal underworld known as "the Hulks." Once in the new reality, Pip joins a resistance that hides out deep in the earth in a place called "Barnard's Inn." It's also been prophesied that the leader of this resistance, Joe, will find the ipp, who will (according to prophecy) fall in love with Biddy. But one day when born-and-bread human Matt Pocket sends Pip and the gang into "reality" they are betrayed by the evil Estella. Things continue onward in a lengthy biblical allegory.

The whole thing is really a tiresome metaphor for a tiresome book by a tiresome french philosopher named Jean-Luc Baudrillard who wrote about how someday all reality would be replaced by a series of trite aphorisms shot to strangers over tubes and then cobbled together into resentful "world"-views (Baudrillard, insisted on putting this term "world" under erasure to represent the loss of "world" desu)

>>9062858
> 'Dickens is more representative of the cultural tradition of the west than Plato'. - Rorty

i must've been reading somebody else because i found his prose tedious.