tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post6774626037645492420..comments2024-01-19T13:24:15.734+00:00Comments on ::Acquired Taste: Tim Strettonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08598897603628943741noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post-36367543120749588172007-11-13T15:44:00.000+00:002007-11-13T15:44:00.000+00:00Hello Chuck!I take it the book club liked Bleak Ho...Hello Chuck!<BR/><BR/>I take it the book club liked Bleak House more than Suldrun's Garden...<BR/><BR/>The quality you see in Dickens is sometimes derided as caricature--but I think your description is far nearer the mark.Tim Strettonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08598897603628943741noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21671128.post-9723712725873131142007-11-13T15:32:00.000+00:002007-11-13T15:32:00.000+00:00We recently read Bleak House in my book club, and ...We recently read <I>Bleak House</I> in my book club, and upon this most recent re-reading, what struck me was Dickens' ability to distill complex human motivations and characteristics into characters who, forever afterward, will serve as shorthand for those more complicated concepts---sort of like, a picture being worth a thousand words. Mrs. Jellyby and Richard Carsten spring immediately to mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com