TheLastColdBeer Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Posted January 14, 2013 Been reading old classics that I avoided in my youth. Finished Great Expectations by Dickens the other day, and it was a page turner. One of the few books I've ever read that brought tears to my eyes. Loved A Christmas Carol, plowed my way through A Tale of Two Cities, enjoyed Hard Times, and have Oliver Twist & Bleak House on que next. Love a story that rings true no matter what the era. Times change, but people will forever remain the same. LordOfChaos, baldie and Sonovabich 3 Awards
Shamu Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 715 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 8 Topic Count: 418 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 2178 Content Per Day: 0.38 Reputation: 1183 Achievement Points: 16606 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 11/09/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 11/04/1943 Posted January 14, 2013 They are called classics because they earned it. Sonovabich, LordOfChaos and baldie 3
Sonovabich Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5198 Achievement Points: 131537 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 07:44 AM Device: Windows Posted January 14, 2013 Bleak House is good, i get sick of hearing how great Shakespeare was, for me Dickens was the greatest British author of all time, had to read most of these in school, i wasn't too pleased at first but i am really glad we were made to read them now, we had a great English teacher who made these books a pleasure, in later years he put his head on a railway line and let a train run over it, not sure what else to say about that. baldie and Bogleg 2
Sonovabich Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 82 Group: ** Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 1535 Topics Per Day: 0.27 Content Count: 5022 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 5198 Achievement Points: 131537 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 116 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 07:44 AM Device: Windows Posted January 14, 2013 Been reading old classics that I avoided in my youth. Finished Great Expectations by Dickens the other day, and it was a page turner. One of the few books I've ever read that brought tears to my eyes. Loved A Christmas Carol, plowed my way through A Tale of Two Cities, enjoyed Hard Times, and have Oliver Twist & Bleak House on que next. Love a story that rings true no matter what the era. Times change, but people will forever remain the same. Not sure what British tv you get over there m8, but the BBC usually does a good job of bringing these books to the screen, as i said in my other post Bleak House was particularly good, so was Hard times, maybe take a look online to see if you can download them from somewhere. baldie 1
DEEJAYKEG Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted January 14, 2013 Don't overlook his factual text books ("dictionaries") on the River Thames and London - they are interesting to the student of history or genealogist with London roots. Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.83 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Author Posted January 14, 2013 Will do DJ. For most of my reading it's the epub sites. Lots of books to be had for no money down. I'm not above using a torrent client or two either. As far as our television, we get BBC America on comcast. PBS (public broadcast) plays a lot of old sitcoms, Keeping up Appearances, Red Dwarf, Are You Being Served?, stuff like that. Documentaries pop up occasionally, as well as dramatic cinema. Can't leave out Dr. Who..... , but it's catch as catch can. Awards
LandShark Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 698 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 26 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1145 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 782 Achievement Points: 7232 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 15, 2024 Device: Windows Posted January 14, 2013 Love Dickens. A Christmas Carol is one of my all time favorites. Robert Louis Stevenson was great too! Treasure Island is awesome. Awards
DEEJAYKEG Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 1238 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 35 Topic Count: 1207 Topics Per Day: 0.22 Content Count: 6083 Content Per Day: 1.10 Reputation: 4985 Achievement Points: 50728 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 11 Joined: 03/12/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 11, 2024 Posted January 14, 2013 Bleak House is good, i get sick of hearing how great Shakespeare was, for me Dickens was the greatest British author of all time, had to read most of these in school, i wasn't too pleased at first but i am really glad we were made to read them now, we had a great English teacher who made these books a pleasure, in later years he put his head on a railway line and let a train run over it, not sure what else to say about that. Shakespeare resonates through (at least) British English due to the wealth of idioms derived from his plays. See: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/phrases-sayings-shakespeare.html Awards
LordOfChaos Posted January 14, 2013 Member ID: 3174 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 100 Topic Count: 78 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2162 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 1645 Achievement Points: 17423 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 02/03/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 27, 2017 Birthday: 07/24/1957 Posted January 14, 2013 oliver twist is my favorite Dickens... really captured the poverty on that era. Dickens is a powerhouse of an author... Arthur Conan Doyle is another great author i am sure you will love... Oscar Wilde is another i like. Also the adventures of huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is also one great story. love the classics!
Boo Yaa Posted January 15, 2013 Member ID: 22349 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 766 Content Per Day: 0.20 Reputation: 3 Achievement Points: 4612 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/15/15 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 5, 2015 Posted January 15, 2013 My favorite dickens is right below my waistens. Sonovabich 1
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