tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282904905780175338.post8727975001426862332..comments2024-02-04T12:49:20.612-05:00Comments on Baugh's Blog: Book Review: Charles Dickens 1 - "Sketches by Boz"Clive Baughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523779808271053053noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282904905780175338.post-21122813026659516912012-01-29T14:01:47.555-05:002012-01-29T14:01:47.555-05:00Yeah, I'm like that, too. With music, if I rea...Yeah, I'm like that, too. With music, if I really like someone, I tend to want to get everything they've put out (Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, etc.). With books, it's a matter of time available. I dip into writers' work, too. I've read a few Hardy novels (did some in university), a fair number of Greene - who I really like.<br /><br />We used to have a reading club at work. Everyone involved had the chance to recommend a book. I chose "The Heart of the Matter" by Greene, a novel I really loved. They hated it! They couldn't see the point. No acquaintance with Catholic guilt, I suppose! Or no sense of the dark side of life. I was kind of shocked that they couldn't relate to, or appreciate, his work.Clive Baughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10523779808271053053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282904905780175338.post-83249285740936454502012-01-29T13:33:02.801-05:002012-01-29T13:33:02.801-05:00I like this review Clive."He wiped off the co...I like this review Clive."He wiped off the concentrated essence of cowardice...." That sounds very like a teenage school boy who's hormones are infecting his imagination. I have never read Sketches by Boz, I might do one day, however I am not a completist as you succinctly put it, I'm more of a dip into everything sort of person trying novels at any stage of an authors life.A kind of a randomness has pervaded my reading habits.That's it, I'm a randomist!!!! I quite often go back to authors though and read some more. I have done this over the years with Thomas Hardy and Graham Greene.Other authors too.TONYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07767998391294014275noreply@blogger.com