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These GOP Palin lovers should realize that by the time she tries to run for President (if she is that selfishly motivated at the expense of the GOP) ....... she will be dragging more baggage behind her than Jacob Marley's chain he forged in life in Dicken's Christmas Carol!

Ethics complaints still dog Palin 2009

They may have existed during the time of Dicken's and the Industrial Revolution (read your history) but since then our country has been a blended economy.

Reid takes dig at Palin in reelection launch 2010

Even the minor characters in Dickens are always vivid, partly because of Dickens's strategy of picking out one or two habits or features and exaggerating them, but also simply through Dicken's forceful and distinctive way of writing, as in this brief account of "Mr. Fang," from Oliver Twist:

Style in Fiction 2009

Likewise, Dickens's characters are usually described as outsized and vigorous (and they are), but how often do we pause to consider how outsized and vigorous Dicken's own style actually is?

Style in Fiction 2009

And Dicken's novels are full of such characters, all of them at once both distinctive and colorful as well as fully recognizable as "types" that must have been instantly recognizable to readers in Victorian England -- creating this sort of characterization itself being one of Dickens's great gifts, perhaps unrivaled by any other novelist.

Canonical Writers 2008

The characters are reminiscent of Charles Dicken's characters, but they become real people.

Reader reviews of The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti. 2008

Scrooge is one of the most adapted characters in all of cinema, so don't let Jim Carrey be your family's only vision of Dicken's cranky old man.

Sarah Bowman: The Kids Off the Couch Guide for Families in LA Sarah Bowman 2010

Scrooge is one of the most adapted characters in all of cinema, so don't let Jim Carrey be your family's only vision of Dicken's cranky old man.

Sarah Bowman: The Kids Off the Couch Guide for Families in LA Sarah Bowman 2010

If you want to read some Christmas stories to get in the mood, there's Dicken's Christmas Carol, Truman Capote's short story, "A Christmas Memory," and Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle."

Elizabeth Benedict: It's Christmas: Don't Get an MFA -- Write a Story, Win a Prize 2009

Dicken's Bleak House should please Simon the second time around.

What book that you've read is most different on second reading? Ann Althouse 2009