tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post1810640828187131205..comments2024-02-29T02:37:34.896-06:00Comments on Ivebeenreadinglately: Our Mutual FriendLevi Stahlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-87775355229661235112012-04-26T22:06:39.041-05:002012-04-26T22:06:39.041-05:00I know! And it's all over his books! I think D...I know! And it's all over his books! I think Dickens is so familiar to us in broad outline--and, to be fair, his actual flaws so glaring--that we forget just how amazing his prose, and the mind that animates it, can be on a sentence by sentence, scene by scene basis. When you then remember the pace at which he was working, and that most of his best descriptions really are these sort of essentially throwaway bits, it's mind-blowing.Levi Stahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11094919454842047688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19106928.post-53468719009557355862012-04-26T21:07:03.523-05:002012-04-26T21:07:03.523-05:00Holy cow, what great writing. I have already forg...Holy cow, what great writing. I have already forgotten those passages. The whole book is written like that; it's overwhelming.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.com