Read Oliver Twist aloud?

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  • August 19, 2012 at 3:12 pm
    Rachel White
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    Other than A Christmas Carol, I think Oliver Twist will be our first Dickens book (unless another is recommended instead?).

    Should I read it aloud or have it be read independnetly?

    Thanks

    August 19, 2012 at 9:00 pm
    Bookworm
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    My favorite shorter Dickens is Great Expectations, actually, and I LOVE to read it aloud.  I like it better than Oliver Twist, I have to confess. 

    August 20, 2012 at 12:24 pm
    jenirae
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    What is it you like about Great Expectations?

    August 20, 2012 at 1:01 pm
    Bookworm
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    I think it’s the better-written and drawn novel.  The plot is less kitschy, the characters are fascinating, the plot twists and turns less nutty.  I also don’t like the murder of the prostitute in OT.  My kids read OT, but I think it better left to a bit later.  True, there is crime in GE too, but no murders of prostitutes.  🙂  Plus I think one of the better drawn characters in Dickens is Miss Havisham and her room she walks around every day.  I think she’s fascinating in a morbid way.  LOL One of those scenes I read in a book as a kid and have never forgotten these many years later.

    August 20, 2012 at 1:20 pm
    jenirae
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    Funny, I have read few literary classics, but this one of I did read in high school and did realy like, though I couldn’t tell you why then I don’t remember enough of it now to say either.

    August 20, 2012 at 5:49 pm
    Rachel White
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    So, do you the Great Expectations is okay for an 11 and 12 yr. old? In terms of comprehension and interest-I don’t want them zoning out on me.

    I’m trying to make the best decision of a first serious Dickens book. I’ve got three lit. books I want to read next, 2 heavy and 1 light; I have the other two picked out.

    Gillian Anderson (X-Files, Bleak House) is going to be Miss Haversham in the new production of GE; I can’t wait!

    August 20, 2012 at 7:59 pm
    SueinMN
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    JFYI other homeschool curricula companies schedule Great Expectations for an upper elementary Read Aloud and save Oliver Twist for high school. Great Expectations is considered to be Dicken’s masterpiece. I love Dickens but I find GE depressing. My favorite Dicken’s novel is David Copperfield. It is quite long but it never fails to fascinate, educate, and entertain me. I have never read Oliver Twist yet, but it on my to be read list.

    August 21, 2012 at 1:14 am
    Rachel White
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    Apparently, Masterpiece on PBS aired the latest BBC production of GE in April. I looked and it is available on Netflix.

    Just thought I’d pass on the news…

     

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