New busiest month? - More posts needed!

[fsn]

I think it's the Minerva armoured car you are referring too?

Now I have to unlearn what I just learned. 

[FierceKitty]

Thank you, Ian. And is it true that Little Dorrit is a work of fiction?

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

No FK - terminal BOREDOM.....like any Dickens fiction.

IanS

[FierceKitty]

Contradicting yourself there, implicitly at least.

[Leman]

No, he's right. Only decent line in a Dicken's novel is in Oliver Twist, "Do not say you have seen me, Dick."

[FierceKitty]

Not questioning his opinions in my comment. But he seems to imply it's not a work of fiction, and that it's boring because it's a work of Dickens' fiction. True, the book is not stated to be a work of fiction in itself, but the rest of the post is meaningless without that inference.

And that, M'Lud, is the case for the prosecution.

[Steve J]

I had to endure 'Little Dorrit' as part my A level English . It was truly painful reading. However the BBC did a decent dramatisation of it a few years ago which I enjoyed.

[Subedai]

I must have been lucky. We didn't have Dickens we had Greene's Brighton Rock for 'O' Level. Didn't read it then and never read it since...still managed a 'C' at English Literature despite that. Never read any Dickens or any of the other so called classics either. Tried Moby Dick once and ending missing out whole chapters while trying to find something interesting. Hmmm, was it serialised in one of the periodicals first I wonder? Give me a good Stephen King or Robert Heinlein and I'm happy.

[getagrip]

Problem with Stephen King is; he doesn't know how to end novels without apocalyptic sequences.

[Leon]

4719 posts as of this one, so we've hit a new monthly record!  Cheers!

[Westmarcher]

 

[getagrip]

If you look closely you'll see that kids actually been eating sand!

[FierceKitty]

Problem with Stephen King is; he doesn't know how to end novels without apocalyptic sequences.

As Kubrick rather indirectly points out, King can put together a good story, but his prose is utterly devoid of flavour.

[getagrip]

As Kubrick rather indirectly points out, King can put together a good story, but his prose is utterly devoid of flavour.

Perfectly put 

[FierceKitty]

I understand that Kubrick has given widespread satisfaction.