I can't seem to get into Dickens. His characters are all

>>9466749
You're not missing anything.

>>9466759
Can't be the case. There has to be a reason he is considered one of the greats.

>>9466767
It's because of the way he used serial publication. It was accessible to people and fun to read, so he became very popular and has been since. It's just cultural momentum and pseuds.

>>9466749
>low quality bait

>>9467036
how is it bait you braindead retard?

>>9466795
I know Oliver Twist was written this way, that's why a lot of sensationalist shit is happening in each chapter. I didn't get that much out of that book but I was considering to read David Copperfield or A Tale Of Two Cities since they seem to be coming up in pop culture a lot. Are they worthwhile reading?

>>9466749
an open mind

>>9466749
It's like you don't understand the point of Dickens. When he started writing in the 1830s no one was writing realism. He is indebted to melodrama and picaresque novels of the 17th and 18th centuries. His novels dwell in coincidence and the grotesque as an obscuring of reality because 1) it reflected a worldview amd 2) it made him a fortune. Literary realism didn't emerge until the 1850s n France. If you want realism you want Eliot and Hardy and Gissing.

If you don't want the beautiful overwritten prose and the charming councidences and the disgusting melodramatic villians, then Dickens probably isn't for you after all.