Adult readers who are dismissive about Harry Potter

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000" 
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:
> Iggy suggested I should recommend a short Dickens book. Difficult, 
as 
> Dickens doesn't really do short.  The shortest one, apart from the 
> unfinished Edwin Drood is probably Hard Times, a book I rather 
> dislike myself, so I wont urge it on Iggy.  Apart from that, there 
is 
> always A Christmas Carol, if you haven't already over-dosed on that.
> Or you could try reading extracts from the novels such as the Trial 
> Scene from Pickwick or the Crummles sections from Nickleby, to see 
if 
> you would like to read the whole book. They are BIG books and not 
> particularly easy reading, but the rewards are enormous.

I would recommend David Copperfield to the Dickens newby: despite its 
length, it reads very quickly and contains a number of his greatest 
characters (Mr. Micawber and Uriah Heep, to name only two).

   - CMC