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Oliver Twist ***
by Charles Dickens
08/03/08
Three Lives **½
by Gertrude Stein
08/04/08
The Things They Carried ****
by Tim O'Brien
08/05/08
Survivor (#180) *½
by Chuck Palahiuk
08/06/08
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ***½
by Haruki Murakami
08/06/08
... OC: Oliver Twist, Three Lives, The Things They Carried, Survivor, Of Mice and Men EX: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running ... and looking over my first list, I think that I might need some of them:
1. The Great Gatsby
2. Alias Grace
3. Oliver Twist
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Invisible Man
6. Beloved
7. Frankenstein
8. Dracula
9. Get Shorty
10. Dangerous Liasons
11. The Count of Mo ... 8. 1001 Books
(1) To Kill a Mockingbird
(2) Oliver Twist
(3) The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
(4) Ethan Frome
(5) In Cold Blood
(6) He Knew He Was Right
(7) Enduring Love
(8) Candide 6. Victorian Fiction
(1) Oliver Twist
(2) He Knew He Was Right Last Tango in Paris
Dance with the Devil by Kirk Douglas
Oliver Twist
Ballroom of the Skies by John D. MacDonald
Chicken Dance ... Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes :-)
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens ... Maybe that makes a difference. I always picture it looking like a grubby version of where Mr. Brownlow lives in the musical Oliver!
Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist! It's been a long time since I read it and I could be thinking of the film with Oliver Reed in it, but doesn't he shoot a dog? I know he shoots Bullseye in the film but does he shoot him in the book? Definetely a meanest character candidate. ... be worth visiting. An obvious one is the Dickens House Museum in Bloomsbury, where he lived in the late 1830s and wrote Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickelby.
If anyone has a particularly strong urge to see any of London's other sites or shops, just say.
As regards meeting, I guess it ... I finished Oliver Twist last night and I'm starting Manifesto of the Communist Party today. Both are from a list of banned books that I'm working my way through. This week I've finished Oliver Twist and Pillars of Creation, and started Manifesto of the Communist Party and Naked Empire. I'm still working on Dark Visions, The Poems and Songs of Robert Burns, and The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 37. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (from the banned books list)
I've only ever read A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations before this, but I think I can safely say that I'm a Dickens fan. His stories are decidedly creepy, and I like creepy, although Oliver got a bit irritating ... ... Dalmatians, and Gulliver's Travels).
I'm pretty sure it also listed The First Men in the Moon, Pilgrim's Progress, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, The Water Babies, Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, The Call of the Wild, and The 39 Steps. The only book I remember reading ... ... that was just because I didn't try very hard to read it.
I think it had to do with the scarring of attempting to read Oliver Twist when I was seven years old. Because I was a weird kid who did things like that. (Though, oddly, Edgar Allan Poe was actually accessible at the age of seven.)
... Even though we don't have the room.... or the money....I got the following
From the local B & N:
Treasure Island
Oliver Twist
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(They were having a great sale)
I'm currently reading:
The Songs and Poems of Robert Burns
Oliver Twist
Dark Visions
Faith of the Fallen ... Wall by William Dietrich
33. Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan
34. A Thread of Grace by Mary Doria Russell
35. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
36. Black Order by James Rollins
37. The Elder Gods by David Eddings
38. Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
39. A Brav ... My 3rd set of 8 is coming along:
Oliver Twist (classic)
Memoirs of a Geisha (1001)
A Room with A View (Classic Reread)
The Brontes: A Life in Letters (non-fiction) no luck with touchstones
Allegiance (Random Sci Fi)
I have deviated from my list a bit. Allegiance was purchased ... Still reading:
Oliver Twist
The Eye of Cybele
Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ... I finished The Red and the Black, which was not what I was expecting, but was still an OK book. Yesterday I started Oliver Twist (another book from the Banned Books list), and I'm really excited about it, since I've never read it before. This weekend I finished The Red and the Black, and now I'm ready to start Oliver Twist. I'm also still working through a collection of Emerson's Essays, Faith of the Fallen, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ... as to which to read next - I don't think I want to read the obvious ones (Great Expectations, David Copperfield, or Oliver Twist) just yet as I know what happens and the (very old) film of The Tale of Two Cities had me in such floods of tears (for the 'tis a far, far better thing that I ... 39.Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ... regional variations. Consequently, only 4 Dickens novels - Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, are thought to be up to scratch, whilst novelists from Argentina to Belarus to South Korea are all included.
On the one hand, this does mean that those ... ... to happen this year, unless I borrow a bunch of books from my 3 year old niece and count all of them! Oh, well.
17. Oliver Twist
I have yet to dislike a Charles Dickens book,, so I expected to enjoy this one. Sure, some of the characters are one-dimensional (like Oliver!), and there ... Favourites:
Charles Dickens, although I've only read Bleak House, Oliver Twist and Hard Times, most of the rest are on Mount TBR.
Oscar Wilde - not sure if he counts, since he's Irish, but I liked The Picture of Dorian Grey and The Importance of Being Ernest. I've never seen ... I got a really nice illustrated edition of Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens in the mail today. An early present from my future in-laws for my birthday on Monday. Is it Oliver Twist? ... by Harper Lee
2. The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
3. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
4. Oliver Twist by Dickens
5. Etham Frome by Wharton Anything by L.A. Banks
Oliver Twist
The Diary of Anne Frank (yeah, yeah, I know I'm a terrible person. I feel for her and I dearly wish she hadn't gone through that, but I can't like her)
Hard Love by Ellen Wittlinger
Really, though, I think I could twist just about any book to ... ... ½
12. Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy ****½
13. The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope ***
14. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens ***½
15. Mill on the Floss by George Eliot ****½
16. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins **** ... sitting on my bookshelf by January 1, 2009. If I hit 50, my next aim will be 100.
Books I have read so far in 2008:
1. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
2. Hollywood - Charles Bukowski
3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy
4. Ralph Nader : Battling for Democracy - Kevin Graham
5. 2001: A ... ... on-line. So now I'm also reading A Christmas Carol. I'm definitely not a fan of the Dickens books I've read (Oliver Twist and Hard Times), but so far, this one's okay. And short! ^^ I have to echo the A Tale of Two Cities rec, and also one for Oliver Twist, which is my favorite Dickens.
As for changing tastes, when I was in high school, I read a lot of VC Andrews, until I read Pride and Prejudice my senior year of high school. Since then I've mostly been interested ... ... can't finish it. (transl: the library's shut today and I've exhausted everything else to hand).
Years ago I gave up on Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, Scenes from provincial life and Midnight's Children. I am not going back to those, no matter how bad winter gets. I read Oliver Twist right after Bleak House at the end of last year. It was nowhere near as enjoyable. In fact, I found it to be one of CD's more dark and depressing works, and very light-on for humour. Still a worthy book but not his best, in my opinion. ... Nickleby I got for free, so I haven't invested anything in it yet. I'll put it second on the list. I see no one suggested Oliver Twist. Poor Oliver. :-) Oliver Twist it is!
So dreamlikecheese is the officical winner, right? Thorold and aviddiva both guessed it but neither said it outright.
Oh and I've never seen the musical either, well except the Disney one with the dogs. ... one. Recommendations? Two caveats: I'd prefer something shorter than Bleak House, and I already own Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby and The Tale of Two Cities. Which one of these would be a good follow up to Bleak House? Oliver Twist? I just finished Oliver Twist this afternoon and next I plan to read Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman next. I'm currently reading Oliver Twist. I recently took my copy of Oliver Twist with me to a doctor's appointment. No-one in the waiting room seemed to mind. But then again, usually I'm there with a PSP or Nintendo DS, so I guess I'm already known as a bit of a geek ;P ... lost in a town of books by Paul Collins
Science and the social order by Bernard Barber
A child's night dream by Oliver Stone
The new Atlantis : a journal of technology and society
Bibliotherapy : the girl's guide to books for every phase of our lives by Beverly West
Disease ... #14 - the new Oliver Twist had the best portrayal of Bill Sykes I have ever seen. I don't know the name of the actor who played him but he managed to be hateful, frightening and pitiful all at the same time. That adaptation is worth watching just to see him. ... is a good way to describe it.
Dickens discussion: The only Dickens book I have been able to read more than once is Oliver Twist. It might not even count as a novel since he wrote it as a newspaper serial. I also had to read Great Expectations in high school (I only remember the Havisha ... 6. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.
Sensational. Will post a review later.
Why does the Charles Dickens touchstone not work??? Grrr..
'A thrilling picture of the Victorian underworld. I loved the vivid characters, in particular Fagin and his pick-pocket underlings. The picture Dickens ... My class started with Frankenstein and Oliver Twist, and we've still to read Adam Bede by George Eliot, Tess of the D'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy, She by H. Rider Haggard, The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. ... ... were both really good books. I also finished Found on the Street by Patricia Highsmith. I'm very very slowly reading Oliver Twist and expect to be doing that for awhile. Finally, I am reading the non-fiction book Pulitzer Prize winner Legacy of Ashes. >82 Ooops, I must have overlooked mentioning the Dickens group before. Apologies!
>81 I recently finished Oliver Twist and agree with its not Dickens at his best.
... lost.'
Right then, back to the more serious stuff. The ones I'm slogging through remain sitting on my shelf, I'm enjoying Oliver Twist so that's probably the next one to be finished. I'm reading Oliver Twist by Dickens and Guy Mannering by Walter Scott for classes. I like Dickens in general, but OT is definitely not his best. Scott, I'm still making up my mind about (this is the second of his books I've read, the first being The Bride of Lammermoor.) ... these books are insightful and well-written but the current overdose is surely a symptom of cultural narcissism. Look, I'm Oliver Twist, too!
"Me" is supposedly a more "authentic" subject and source of truth. ... going to go in this first post:
January - A Short History of Nearly Everything. So wide-eyed and funny.
Febraury - Oliver Twist. My favourite Dickens (of 2!) so far.
March - The Shock Doctrine. Just brilliant.
April - In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Enough has been said about ... ... you to get into them.
I agree with philosojerk about not starting Dickens with Bleak House. A Tale of Two Cities or Oliver Twist would probably be better to begin. The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist has always been one of my favorites. ... has been shown on tv in the UK - it had an odd start but is promising.
If you like costume dramas then there was a new Oliver Twist on the BBC over Xmas, and ITV made The Old Curiosity Shop.
Cranford is well worth seeing - although it is not really an adaptation of the novel, it is ... ... Dickens-I once spent months reading all the novels in order, and I gotta say, I loathe (gosh I wish we could do italics) Oliver Twist. What a little non-entity! Oh, don't get me started. Go for Our Mutual Friend instead. The dialogue is incredible. ... up rereading a couple of times a year. A Tale of Two Cities (which, interestingly doesn't seem to have a touchstone) and Oliver Twist get re-read once a year or so. I finished reading Oliver Twist last week. While I enjoyed it I found it to be one of Dickens' darker, more violent novels. It is surprising that eventually become one of the most popular children's tales on the planet.
Apart from a couple of memorable scenes with Mr Bumble and Mrs Corney, Ol ... I'm reading Oliver Twist by Dickens (2003). At the back there is a fabulous glossary of "thieve's slang and unusual words" and an 1837 map of London :) ... hers
Bronte sisters -- Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
Chaucer -- Canterbury Tales
Dickens -- Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol
Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
George Eliot -- Silas Marner
Robert Frost -- a pretty good bit of ... ... Papers
Frankenstein and sexing the Cherry
Gulliver's Travels and Atomised
The Inferno and Sabbath's Theatre
Oliver Twist and Trainspotting ... by Kazuo Ishiguro; and 84, Charing Cross Road and The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff.
I've started Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. It'll be my last Dickens for 2007. ... liked Faulkner didn't like Hemingway. I'm in the Faulkner camp myself. I also like Dickens, though I loathe Oliver Twist, and don't much care for Austen. ... Bride.
John Bender from The Breakfast Club.
Wheels from Degrassi Junior High.
Jack from Titanic.
The Artful Dodger from Oliver Twist.
... copies)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (4,572 copies)
White Teeth: A Novel by Zadie Smith (3,591 copies)
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (3,421 copies)
The long dark tea-time of the soul byDouglas Adams (3,294 copies)
About a boy by Nick Hornby (3,260 copies)
... I'm also thinking of reading one of the shorter Dickens novels between now and the end of the year. It'll probably be Oliver Twist!
ladyagata ~ you can always tap into the Dickens group for further encouragement & ideas
http://www.librarything.com/groups/whatthedickens
Edited to add ... I really enjoyed reading Oliver Twist and it's not too long, if that is a consideration. I haven't read the other two, but saw a film of Little Dorrit with Derek Jacobi (not sure of spelling) and have wanted to read it ever since. ... in another of Dickens' works before the end of the year but I can't decide which of these to go with:
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
Little Dorrit
Any spoiler-free advice is welcome. Thanks :)
... the ones I've never read such as Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House. I recently bought Hard Times, Little Dorrit and Oliver Twist. Not sure which to go with next.... ... but I own them all and about once a year choose one to read. I have been thinking about trying out A Christmas Carol or Oliver Twist because I know a lot about those stories already.
I read All quiet on the Western Front knowing nothing about it last year and I was pleasantly surprised ... ... Cranford - BBC
John Cleland Fanny Hill - BBC
E. M. Forster A Room with a View -ITV
Charles Dickens Oliver Twist - BBC
Charles Dickens The Old Curiosity Shop - ITV
Not a classic but "Miss Austen Regrets", a drama about Jane Austen in her final years.
... in particular) I got motivated to read David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and most recently, Our Mutual Friend. Oliver Twist and Hard Times are now in my TBR pile. I'm so glad I re-discovered Dickens! ... thing they're going to do.
It's harder than you think. So far they've had proposals for these.
Bill Sykes from Oliver Twist
Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
Dracula in Dracula
The Child Catcher in Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Mr Hyde - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. H ... ... Milan Kundera
The Flamenco Academy, Sarah Bird
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens ... suggest a publisher or series that might be sturdy and have easy to read print that we might consult for replacement. (The Oliver Twist that just fell apart is a Garden City Press 1942 printing and I have a Dr. Zivago that an elder patron returned because she couldn't read the small print.
T ... Picked up Oliver Twist and Pride and Prejudice in a little bookshop today. I am discovering an interest in the classics of literature. ... me a month each the first time through, even though I enjoyed them. Subsequent readings have gone much more quickly.
Oliver Twist also took up about a month, and in less pleasant fashion. I would have thrown it down in disgust had I not agreed to read it for a novel study.
And even ... ... de Dickens et donc pour l’un des meilleurs romans tout court, il est beaucoup moins connu en Allemagne que par exemple Oliver Twist ou David Copperfield. Bon, j’avais eu la chance de lire Bleak House dans le cadre d’un readalong, on était une vingtaine à le lire en même temps et à ... ... Year David Ewing Duncan
Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
Dance dance dance by Haruki Murakami
Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov
Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar
Double Whammy by Carl Hiaasen
Down Under by Bill Bryson
Enc ... ... I would also lump in Swan Song, by Robert R. McCammon (really an imitation of The Stand, but a lot of fun), and Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens, who excelled at these soap opera-like behemoths. Like others I find this a difficult question to answer. Oliver Twist was the first Dickens novel I read, so it has a special place for me. And of those I have read (I'm in the process of reading all of his fiction) I believe Great Expectations is his greatest achievement; an opinion that may ... ... I haven't read the book). I think that was a BBC production. And of course there have been countless renderings of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations.
#5 Almigwin, I like Anthony Trollope also. Maybe LT needs a forum for 'Trollopians'? ;) ... is a tough one. Great Expectations was my first Dickens novel, so I am partial to it; however, I think I have to go with Oliver Twist (my user name being based on a character and all...).
To answer fairly, I would have to lock myself away in a cabin somewhere for weeks and read them all ... I can appreciate that Oliver Twist was a product of its times, but I still loathe it with every fibre of my being.
As far as simple poor writing goes, I think The Stud by Jackie Collins would have to be near the top. I normally enjoy her books in a fun, trashy sort of way, but that one ... Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
--Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist ... a short story) now had to go.
IMO, calling this novel The Old Curiosity Shop is about the equivalent of calling his Oliver Twist novel 'The Workhouse' instead. Because about as much of the action actually occurs in the shop in this novel as occurs in the workhouse at the beginning of OT. ... ... I hated it, but then I tried again a few years later and now it's one of my most favorites. I also immensely disliked Oliver Twist—it took me 1 1/2 years to read! Maybe I was too young, but I don't think I'll be giving it another chance any time soon. The only other Dickens I've read ... Re: Message 53 -- I understand what you're saying but when I read Oliver Twist in 8th grade, I didn't lose any sleep over the streets of homeless children. And maybe that's another problem with forcing school kids to read the classics. If I read the book today, it might well provoke me into ... sandragon -- I don't agree that Nafisi's definition fits most classics with which I am familiar. Nothing in Oliver Twist, for example, forced me to question anything, let alone "traditions and expectations", nor did it "make me look at things in a different way". It merely told a good story and ... ... All I could think was he got what he deserved. I liked Great Expectations, but I've never been able to finish Oliver Twist and I've tried several times. I do love A Confederacy of Dunces. I liked Fitzgerald better in high school than I do now, whereas I like Jane Austen ... ... I'm missing a score of second-readthrough wonders a la Wuthering Heights. I hope not, because the thought of reading Oliver Twist again is not an appealing one. I finished American Prometheus and the audiobook of Oliver Twist last week. Now I am halfway through Lamb ... my first encounter with Christopher Moore's work. I'm also partway through the audiobook of Three Men in a Boat.
I'm still reading American Prometheus about Robert Oppenheimer and am almost done listening to Oliver Twist.
This morning someone lent me The Mephisto Club by Tess Gerritsen so I may take a break and read that tonight. Sorry to hear that Bookmarque (msg #23) didn't care for it. I ... I'm listening to Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens right now. I also have Three Men in a Boat by Jerome Jerome downloaded and ready to go. Oocels ... re Dickens on audiobook ... Great Expectations was the first one I've listened to, read by Frank Muller. Oliver Twist is read by Flo Gibson. Both are unabridged. Flo Gibson is good, but Frank Muller was outstanding. (George Guidall, though, is my favorite audiobook reader of ... ... Expectations by Charles Dickens (audiobook)
* All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Now reading:
* Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (audiobook)
* American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin ... Windsor, and a couple of other small villages. Upon my return to the states I read back-to-back Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, in addition to Peter Ackroyd's bio Dickens}. My reading inspired my trip, and vice-versa.
Katbook - In a book I previously mentioned, Last Places, the Fa ... ... you for going to the trouble to copy it for me! It sounds great; and I imagine it's a certifiably new twist on uses for Oliver Twist. ;)
I'm not sure where I can conveniently get the bulk ingredients, here, but I may follow the directions for the orange peel, and add it to prepared rose ... ... my appetite was whetted for Dickens (I visited his house on Doughty Street), and upon my return to the USA I read/consumed Oliver Twist and Great Expectations back-to-back, and then moved on to Peter Ackroyd's extremely enjoyable biography Dickens.
Actually, before I flew out of London, I ...
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