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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic
Yep, so much nicer than an audio book or similar; I approve 100% Trollheart! I'm glad that the two of you have something like that to share when, as it always does, conversation wanes. I haven't read to another person since doing it on a regular basis with my son. We could get through an entire book in one evening! Luckily for me, his preferred reading, Nicky's Noisy Night, wasn't too demanding to read out loud. For Dickens, with his vocab and sentence length, you have to stay on your toes a bit more, I suspect.
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Oh you are not kidding! There's a character in, I think, Little Dorrit, who is written in such a way that she says everything in one big rush of breath, no punctuation, and reading it out loud makes you realise how well Dickens gets her character across. I literally had to take a deep breath every time I could see dialogue from her, and my chest usually hurt afterwards. You try saying maybe a full paragraph (maybe twenty or thirty lines) all at once! It's bloody exhausting!
