How come Dickens rarely gets praised in /lit/?
Is it because he's not edgy and underground enough for the cool kids?
he's not american enough
>>7423608
I think he's a pretty overated writer. Talented, but one with shitty padded plots, dated social commentary and that kind of overly long Victorian style that just goes on, and on, and on.
He's by no means a bad writer, I just think his style has aged badly.
>>7423610
Well I on the otherhand think that he is great. When it comes to other great realist writers he can stand up to any, even Tolstoy.
His writing is so lively and I feel like I could not be bored if I tried when reading any of his stuff. His ideas too are moral, and I always end up agreeing with what he has to say.
>>7423623
tolstoy's favourite novel was david copperfield
Dickens is not edgy enough for lit.
He is a humanist and an SJW.
We like analysis without empathy.
Thanks for asking.
>>7423608
>How come Dickens rarely gets praised in /lit/?
cause this is 4chan lit
shit taste
heavy moderation, cis white males are downvoted
just go to the chan that cannot be named instead
>>7423632
>an SJW
>>7423608
Is A Christmas Carol a good introduction to his work?
I have a copy, but I have never gotten around to reading it.
>>7423635
Why don't you go instead?
>>7423638
I know you guys think you are above that word, but often the same gamergate bullsit is bandied about with sugar coating of psuedo intellectual elitism,so yeah:
>SJW
prove you're not a robot, anon, and select the image where you aren't a meme by your very meme-bashing.
>>7423608
>How come Dickens rarely gets praised in /lit/?
White
European
Male
Cis
Not-Gay
Moderately Nationalistic
Religious
pick your poison, he's the antithesis of SJW, reddit, and thus 4chan's /lit/
>>7423640
Here's what you do: coat the book in peanut butter and lighter fluid.
Fill a rice cooker with toothpaste
Put the Skippy/Butane encrusted book in the rice cooker.
Turn it on and throw it out the window.
Watch porn and Dragonball-Z
Tell everyone you read A Christmas Carol.
>>7423610
My thoughts as well, he had a lasting impact on the literary world but goddamn, reading his shit today is a chore for his good works and straight-up torture for his picaresque works
>>7423651
proto-socialist
>>7423646
an ess jay doubleyou
>>7423655
>proto-socialist
proto-national-socialist
Because he's B-O-O-OOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNG-G-G-G.
>>7423674
back to counterstrike:go
>>7423632
>SJW
leave
>>7423674
modern /lit/, everyone
>>7423652
I don't know, that sounds expensive desu.
>>7423655
He was capitalist though.
He loved progress.
>>7423674
He's really not though.
If you can't handle books over 400 pages then I'm sorry. it limits you a lot.
>>7423685
>4chan /lit/, everyone
fixed
there's a better chan you know it starts with eight and ends with chan
>>7423721
Please stop this spam.
eight-chan sucks.
>>7423632
>Notorious racist
>sjw
I don't think that term can really be applied to people from his time.
>>7423740
Don't forget that he was an anti-semite too.
Literally laughed out loud at the few snippets of him making fun of the chosen people.
>>7423750
I think he eventually felt bad about it that.
I think people should note that each book was probably written so that the chapters were released weekly. These are books with about 500 pages and no more than 20 pages to each chapter.
Maybe you should read them like that rather than 200 pages at a time like a hardcore litizen. That's how I plan to read them (well, slightly more frequently)
>>7423757
Not all of his books were serialised, friendo.
>>7423721
If it's better, why are you here?
Because no one obviously uses it and you want more users from 4chan's good boards.
