Best and worst works?

Best and worst works?

Best: Bleak House
Worst: A tale of two cities

Best: JR
Worst: Carpenter's Gothic

Are you trying to be funny son?

Best: Bleak House
Worst: Barnaby Rudge or Hard Times.

Favourite: always Pickwick Papers

Fuck I forgot the picture

Best: Remains of the Day
Worst: Buried Giant

OP here, I was trying to start a Charles Dickens thread. I sure fucked up.

no

Best: Davy C
Worst: Hard TImes

I liked Buried Giant.

What's wrong with hard times?

I loved Christmas Carol. What should I read next?

The Polar Express

Best: Great Expectations
Worst: Old Curiosity Shop

Nothing. It's one of my favorites.

How is Little Dorritt? I wanted to read it thinking it was about prison and I thought that'd be a cool Dickens topic. But the prison turned out to be a boring debtors prison so I gave it up.

Kek

Just finished Pickwick Papers, it was really great. I actually wish it was longer and we could have seen more adventures with the rest of the Pickwick club.
I think I appreciated it more because not too long ago I read Don Quixote, and this is basically the English version of it.

Is there a good edition compiling his best novels?

Bump

Didn't mean to bump this

>picks an author's second and third best books as the best/worst books

terrible opinion. you should be ashamed.

Best: Bleak House
Worst: The Old Curiosity Shop

>Best: Bleak House
Yes, this
>Worst: AToTC
It lacks the humor of his other novels, but it's a powerful story

>Worst: Barnaby Rudge
This is more like it. (Incidentally it's the other novel besides Two Cities that's based around real-life events.) I would rank Martin Chuzzlewit lower even.
>Favorite: Pickwick
It's his most unabashedly joyous and giddy, before the bitterness started to settle in

He wrote four other Christmas novellas after the success of Christmas Carol. The others never matched the first one, and they more or less drop in quality chronologically, but The Chimes (more of a New Year's Eve tale) and The Cricket on the HEarth (the coziest one imo) are good, The Battle of Life is okay, and The Haunted Man is the least of them.

Dickens or GTFO

I read A Tale of Two Cities and loathed it. I see Bleak House get a lot of praise but I don't want to get tricked again. Should I give it a go?

Best: david Copperfield
Worst: a tale of two cities

Best: Our Mutual Friend

Worst: Old Curiousity Shop

>But the prison turned out to be a boring debtors prison

You want the hardcore, for murderers prison, aren't ya?

Just read a book about Australia then

It's good but it feels too short.