Straw Poll

Building better Conventional Wisdom

We don't have a watercooler, but we do have a statistically meaningless Straw Poll. Help us shape a sense of the Site on vital and semi-vital topics of the day. You're here, so you might as well vote. Don't let others define you.

Results

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  • The fact that prolific penman and social critic Charles Dickens' 200th birthday has been celebrated with TV adaptations, round-the-clock, round-the-world readings of his work and two new biographies, confirms that his corpus has well-outlived his corpse. Let's honor the man by finding out how much we honor the man.

  • The Question

    Does Dickens have a place in your pantheon?

    • A

      God bless him. A literary rock star before that phrase made sense, his characters live on. Ebenezer Scrooge, Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield -- hell, I work with some of these people. Want to be a Great Writer? This is how it's done.

    • B

      Er, a modest one. Back in my school days they forced me to crack a tome, but I've never hoisted one of my own volition. No disrespect intended, but please sir, don't make me read some more.

    • C

      Re-formatted. I like my Dickens vivid; with music on stage, with Muppets on the screen, in black and white -- any way but propped up in my lap. Too bad he didn't live to see the web. This pioneer of serialization would have cranked out a hella blog.

  • Volume of volumes
    • Have read some
    • Have read one
    • Have read none