I hate Dickens. I find it unreadable. I had to read much of his work
in college, and it was a task. Remember, those works were serialized
in newspapers. Compiled into a single volume, they become rather fat
and lazy.
Paul
On Sep 30, 2008, at 10:40 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
Boris Liberman wrote:
> > Good day.
> >
> > Out of boredom I am reading the Sherlock Holmes stories as of
lately.
> > Although nearly devoid of any actual content, I admit that it very
> > much attracts me with the language of the narrative ;-) .
> >
> > Here is the question for you. Is there any interesting, probably
> > modern literature such as science fiction for example, that
uses good
> > old British English that you can recommend to me?
> >
> > Thanks a whole lot in advance.
Given the tenor of the times, anything perhaps by Charles Dickens,
except probably not _A Christmas Carol_.
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