alt Hacker News> "To my shame I've never read Dickens"
I suggest dropping the shame; you're not missing much. IMHO Dickens is hugely overrated. Paid by the word and it shows.
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jacobolus • today at 7:41 PM
Dickens is full of extremely theatrical scenes. The characters are often a caricature, but the caricature is so finely drawn that it is tremendous fun.
(Nobody should be ashamed for having read or not read some work though, or for having enjoyed or not enjoyed one.)
DFHippie • today at 7:39 PM
To each his own. I love Dickens, though I haven't read that much.
Dumas was also paid by the word. Still fun to read.
Go for "Great Expectations", "David Copperfield" and "Bleak House". If they are not great novels, I don't know what are.