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Saturday, January 14, 2012

On welding supplies

Just recently finished reading The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens. Thanks to free and low cost downloads on the Kindle, I think the classics have been revived. It was kind of fun, not really a novel in the sense of having a cohesive plot, but like it used welding supplies to hook together various incidents. And the style was not so modern, in that the humor came from the sarcasm and irony of what the author/narrator says. But I did not fall in love with the characters as much as other readers have. It does contain elements prefiguring later books. For example, there's a story within the story of a mean grave digger who's taken by goblins on Christmas Eve and kicked until he realizes he's missing the best part of life by being so mean. Obviously prefigures A Christmas Carol but obviously is not nearly so well done.