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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of the popular YA series are 400-600 pages each and have 2-6 installments.

I’m reading a historical fiction series that on book 18 and each book is 350-400 pages.

There are new books that are destined to be classics.

Also, Charles Dickens was a horrible person and I can’t separate his art from who he was, so I’m fine leaving him behind. Bah humbug. [/quote]

How exactly was Dickens a horrible person? I'm looking at his wiki biography and don't see anything "horrible" by any stretch of the imagination. His marriage clearly was not fulfilling but that's not tantamount to being horrible. But you make it sound like he hired child labor and was cruel to the women of the slums. [/quote]
His wife was pregnant almost non-stop for ten years. He was also carrying on affairs and she only found out when he accidentally sent a gift for a mistress to his wife.

Then they separated and he decided he would keep four kids and she would figure out the other six.

There’s more to it, but this is common knowledge among British people. It’s a little strange that Americans don’t know and get mad about it if you tell them.

I’m going to guess the wiki for his wife talks about this. [/quote]

If Americans find out these things about him, we'd have to ban his books.[/quote]

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