Changing topic then: favourite non-protagonist Dickens character?

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

Quite simply one of the most overrated, turgid, tepid, verbose, far-too-fond-of-adjectives authors in history.

Imagine them kicking Steinbeck off the reading list for that!

[Ashberto]

[One Wilf Copping]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

"Just because one chap at one exam board claimed I didn't like Of Mice And Men, the myth took hold that it - and every other pesky American author - had been banned," he said.

[Ashberto]

[Classic Jorge]

Personally I've always preferred american literature over Elliot, Austen and the Brontes. Certainly at least as a light and accessible way into the subject at a more serious level.

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Ashberto]

[One Wilf Copping]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's no wonder all the oiks are voting UKIP, what with dirty foreign books coming over here taking our shelf space and poisoning our childrens' minds.

[One Wilf Copping]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[One Wilf Copping]

He wouldn't like that one bit...

[Classic Jorge]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Mo Britain less Europe]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

http://img01.beerintheevening.com/0d/0daca1d803358671a3ff57d06956bec9.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

He also did more to expose the inequities of what we now call society than any of the politicians of the time.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[One Wilf Copping]

http://totalbeverage.net/wp-content/uploads/Oktoberfest-Beer-Wench-2.jpg

[Ashberto]

Their cramped cellar was just the right size for our following http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Luis Anaconda]

[Ashberto]

[One Wilf Copping]

[Ashberto]

[the splendor of antigone]

[Classic Jorge]

He's the sort of writer where you fall asleep between sentences

[One Wilf Copping]

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Luis Anaconda]

which is many ways is a simple thing

[PSRB]

other than both dead of course

[Ashberto]

[Luis Anaconda]

People also manage to tip in a restaurant but seem completely befuddled if expected to do so in a bar