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i hear you. Dickens is cool. for example parts of Bleak House are quite brilliant when you consider the context, the mood, emotions and in particular the fears of his audience at the time. but fuck me, does that book drag. it's not exactly a sagacious thing to say, yet i don't feel age would change my disposition toward the slower, laborious, parts of his writing there. i mean i get why they're there... sort of. but seriously.

i can even like the Brontë sisters.

i'm good with the Victorian Era more for the poetry, though. Tennyson, aforementioned, and either EBB or R Browning -- where i thrive. more or less.

idk i have a lot to read. lol. probably shouldn't even be online.

p.s. i think it's a toss up whether JJ would have said Finnegan's Wake or Ulysses was his best work. wasn't the latter unfinished? i remember reading something about this years ago -- it's where i got his phrase breaking the etym; an analog for 'splitting the atom'.

i tried to read Ulysses when i was 15 and almost immediately gave up.