Dive for Dickens

Completed reading Martin Chuzzlewit last week. This is by far my favourite Dickens book (this is the fifth i have read) - i think the best example of optimism as ever can be has culminated in the form of Mark Tapley.

How well he writes - another fact which i think scored a LOT is that good ppl beget good and bad beget bad - which though it does not happen in real life often, one feels very good to savour these moments:-D So much for Bollywood honing us.

Also there is a possibility that i have got Dickensed!! I remember how horrid i felt when i first started reading Dickens - i had begun with Hard Times - such pathetic, gloomy, desolate situations that made me coil - I was wrong then

I have now made up my mind. I am gonna have the entire collection of his books. The other day i read in Amazon that one should read these novels in the order in which the author wrote them - you can grow with the author then - kind of! I plan to do so myself, although some of his novels that i have read - A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations were some of the last books he wrote.

So Austen and Dickens will soon be making it to the collection hall of fame;-) Thanks Austen, Thanks Dickens for having written such wonderful novels that breathe life into my soul. BTW, Betty Smith has already reached that milestone - but then no comparisons since BS has written only 3 novels -

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Joy in the Morning
Tomorrow will be Better

whereas Austen has written 9 - let me see -
Sense & Sensibility
Pride & Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Lady Susan

and the not completed novels being
The Watsons and
Sanditon.

There must be one or two more which have not got published i guess. I have read all except NA, and in my collection I have all except Emma and NA

Dickens has written over twenty novels among a horde of other things. I have parked ’Our Mutual Friend’ for now as he wrote it at the fag end of his career. I am now reading ’Oliver Twist’ - got it at the local library which is the second novel he wrote. (the first being Pickwick Papers)

I have copies of and have read Hard Times, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and Martin Chuzzlewit. I have copies of Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorritt, which i am yet to read.

So much for the Dickens Dive...

Rest in my life is going on as usual. Hoping it will continue like this for ever:-D