The passage where Tom travels to Salisbury is one of the most beautifully witten passages in Dickens,including the lovely moment outside the bookstore.And yes Dickens was truly"one of the most remarkable men in the country".😁
I’ve been enjoying the Mega Dickens Read Along. Thank you. It's been 19 years since I read MC and I don't remember it at all so I’m looking forward to rereading it.
I have long heard that Martin Chuzzlewit is great, so I'm excited to read it. I've read every one along with you so far and will read them all. :) I've wanted to read all of Dickens for so many years. Loving this!
This book is so enjoyable! Unfortunately, I watched the 1994 adaptation produced by the BBC before starting the book a few days ago, and the book is much richer. Thanks for hosting the mega read along, Katie; it helps me appreciate the genius of Charles Dickens more and more.
Larry, I think that's the adaptation I just posted about. Great cast, terrible young Martin who ruined it for me & made me decide I wouldn't join the readalong for MC. Changed my mind now though due to Katies video & comments like yours.
I picked up the Jacobi performance of MC to listen to alongside the reading of it, which I began last week. Jacobi brings the ridiculous, hilarious comedy of the book out brilliantly and I’m very glad to have his performance as a companion. I feel like after writing Barnaby Rudge, Dickens just needed to tell some jokes and write some wonderful buffoons. I love how gentle Tom Pinch plays the organ! How old fashioned of him in a century where a piano was in every aspiring and actual middle class home. Great stuff.
I am currently re-reading Martin Chuzzlewit and enjoying it immensely. It contains some of Dickens best comic moments and comic observations. As you point out it contains a very interesting and large gallery of characters, and multiple plot lines. I am tempted to say that this is the novel where Dickens successfully weaves multiple plots lines around a common theme in a fully integrated way for the first time. It is a novel where everything is connected. I was particularly interested in what you had to say about gender in Martin Chuzzlewit, which I hadn't recognized before. I will pay more attention to this as I progress through the remaining two thirds of the novel, so thanks for that. By coincidence I am also reading Balzac at present. (Indeed I am currently engaged on a very lengthy project of re-reading all my 19th century novels in roughly chronological order), so I am also starting on the Brontes and Mrs Gaskell. I find Balzac a fascinating contrast to Dickens. His women characters in particular are so very different from those of Dickens. He's 13 years older than Dickens, but they are roughly contemporary. Balzac rarely idealizes his young women characters in the way Dickens does in his early novels and is always realistic in his depiction of the negative aspects of his female characters. Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that. I always watch your introductions now before I start any Dickens novel as your enthusiasm always whets my appetite for the novel to come. I am vey happy to have discovered your channel.
I recently watched a BBC adaptation of MC & it was riuned by the chinless wonder playing young MC. The rest of the cast read like a who's who of UK TV but un-surprisingly I've never seen the MC actor again. His performance put me off reading the book again but I've since decided to change my mind as I do remember enjoying it 20 years or so ago when I first read it. I particularly liked the American section or at least I remember it particularly well.
I will be joining in with pleasure. I don’t know anything about this book and have never seen an adaptation so it’s new to me. I’m an American and have visited the west and can’t wait for that section of the book.
It’s my first time with Martin Chuzzlewit. Started a few days ago with the Audible recording you mentioned and it is fabulous! Great characters and great story 😎
Yes, I plan on joining the Martin Chuzzlewit read-a-long. It’s one of the six of his completed novels that I haven’t read. Dickens really is the undisputed king of memorable and funny character names. I mean, c’mon, Pecksniff is hilarious!
I enjoy Martin Chuzzlewit a lot. I find the growth of Martin a nice arc, the daughters of Pecksniff an interesting dynamic, and the satire of the US brutally funny.
I really enjoy this project that you are doing Katie!! I read Martin Chuzzlewit just last year, so I will skip this one. I'm so glad that I read it though!! I really like both Martin and Mercy's redemption arc in the story. I thought that Mary Graham and Ruth Pinch were essentially the same character (the sweet angelic female type). A lot of memorable characters in this novel!!
Hahahaha. I just read “she was so damp from many weeping!!” Hahahaha Still in Barnaby Rudge!! I had to stop reading as I was suddenly quite sick. But back to it and I had to share my giggles (chapter 63 somewhere) this next book is a new one for me. Take care!!
This is one of the three completed Dickens novels I have yet to read (the others are Barnaby Rudge and Nicholas Nickelby) , so maybe I can get down to reading it this Summer.
The passage where Tom travels to Salisbury is one of the most beautifully witten passages in Dickens,including the lovely moment outside the bookstore.And yes Dickens was truly"one of the most remarkable men in the country".😁
I’ve been enjoying the Mega Dickens Read Along. Thank you. It's been 19 years since I read MC and I don't remember it at all so I’m looking forward to rereading it.
Thanks very much!
I have long heard that Martin Chuzzlewit is great, so I'm excited to read it. I've read every one along with you so far and will read them all. :) I've wanted to read all of Dickens for so many years. Loving this!
This book is so enjoyable! Unfortunately, I watched the 1994 adaptation produced by the BBC before starting the book a few days ago, and the book is much richer. Thanks for hosting the mega read along, Katie; it helps me appreciate the genius of Charles Dickens more and more.
Larry, I think that's the adaptation I just posted about. Great cast, terrible young Martin who ruined it for me & made me decide I wouldn't join the readalong for MC. Changed my mind now though due to Katies video & comments like yours.
I picked up the Jacobi performance of MC to listen to alongside the reading of it, which I began last week. Jacobi brings the ridiculous, hilarious comedy of the book out brilliantly and I’m very glad to have his performance as a companion. I feel like after writing Barnaby Rudge, Dickens just needed to tell some jokes and write some wonderful buffoons. I love how gentle Tom Pinch plays the organ! How old fashioned of him in a century where a piano was in every aspiring and actual middle class home. Great stuff.
I'm super excited to start the Jacobi audiobook!
I am currently re-reading Martin Chuzzlewit and enjoying it immensely. It contains some of Dickens best comic moments and comic observations. As you point out it contains a very interesting and large gallery of characters, and multiple plot lines. I am tempted to say that this is the novel where Dickens successfully weaves multiple plots lines around a common theme in a fully integrated way for the first time. It is a novel where everything is connected.
I was particularly interested in what you had to say about gender in Martin Chuzzlewit, which I hadn't recognized before. I will pay more attention to this as I progress through the remaining two thirds of the novel, so thanks for that.
By coincidence I am also reading Balzac at present. (Indeed I am currently engaged on a very lengthy project of re-reading all my 19th century novels in roughly chronological order), so I am also starting on the Brontes and Mrs Gaskell. I find Balzac a fascinating contrast to Dickens. His women characters in particular are so very different from those of Dickens. He's 13 years older than Dickens, but they are roughly contemporary. Balzac rarely idealizes his young women characters in the way Dickens does in his early novels and is always realistic in his depiction of the negative aspects of his female characters.
Anyway, I just thought I'd mention that. I always watch your introductions now before I start any Dickens novel as your enthusiasm always whets my appetite for the novel to come. I am vey happy to have discovered your channel.
I’ll join you this month. I have had lots of pressure in other directions so haven’t kept up but I’m really keen for this one. Thanks🤗
I recently watched a BBC adaptation of MC & it was riuned by the chinless wonder playing young MC. The rest of the cast read like a who's who of UK TV but un-surprisingly I've never seen the MC actor again. His performance put me off reading the book again but I've since decided to change my mind as I do remember enjoying it 20 years or so ago when I first read it. I particularly liked the American section or at least I remember it particularly well.
I will be joining in with pleasure. I don’t know anything about this book and have never seen an adaptation so it’s new to me. I’m an American and have visited the west and can’t wait for that section of the book.
It’s my first time with Martin Chuzzlewit. Started a few days ago with the Audible recording you mentioned and it is fabulous! Great characters and great story 😎
Yes, I plan on joining the Martin Chuzzlewit read-a-long. It’s one of the six of his completed novels that I haven’t read. Dickens really is the undisputed king of memorable and funny character names. I mean, c’mon, Pecksniff is hilarious!
I enjoy Martin Chuzzlewit a lot. I find the growth of Martin a nice arc, the daughters of Pecksniff an interesting dynamic, and the satire of the US brutally funny.
I feel like I found Martin very irritating last time I read it, so let's see if I'm more forgiving this time!
I really enjoy this project that you are doing Katie!! I read Martin Chuzzlewit just last year, so I will skip this one. I'm so glad that I read it though!! I really like both Martin and Mercy's redemption arc in the story. I thought that Mary Graham and Ruth Pinch were essentially the same character (the sweet angelic female type). A lot of memorable characters in this novel!!
Great video Katie
Just finished MC with much enjoyment. On to the Jane Austen July read-along.
I'm super interested to reas this one now!
I don’t think I’ll be able to join in for this one sadly. Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts in the discord.
I look forward to a reread of MC
Hahahaha. I just read “she was so damp from many weeping!!” Hahahaha Still in Barnaby Rudge!! I had to stop reading as I was suddenly quite sick. But back to it and I had to share my giggles (chapter 63 somewhere) this next book is a new one for me. Take care!!
This is one of the three completed Dickens novels I have yet to read (the others are Barnaby Rudge and Nicholas Nickelby) , so maybe I can get down to reading it this Summer.
This is now my selection for Victober.