tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863310197729853167.post2165084612361989340..comments2023-04-28T07:03:56.014-04:00Comments on Confessions of a Book Addict: Reconciling DifferencesMeganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04611565125975953606noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863310197729853167.post-82999033893229572922012-03-17T11:28:00.523-04:002012-03-17T11:28:00.523-04:00I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm still sloggi...I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm still slogging my way through Little Dorrit, but every page gets me closer to the end. Collins is definitely more focused on fate, I think - a lot of his novels talk about how the characters are led on their path without any real control (or despite their knowledge that they should be going in a different direction). Dickens gives people a bit more free will.Meganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04611565125975953606noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-863310197729853167.post-9809001794929516412012-03-17T11:19:18.337-04:002012-03-17T11:19:18.337-04:00I went through Collins' works a couple of year...I went through Collins' works a couple of years ago and really enjoyed them... even went so far as to pick up a first American edition of "The Moonstone" (couldn't find a British at a price I could handle). I think the comparisons with Dickens arise largely because both are interested in social pathology, the levels to which people can descend given certain environments and situations, and the notion that people are impelled toward a fate, with free will not playing as much of a role as some would wish. But I see Dickens as more of a social novelist - he often seems more interested in the environments I referred to than he is the characters who inhabit them, though he certainly created some memorable characters.<br /><br />Thanks for the great postE!caravan70https://www.blogger.com/profile/16389706101718558079noreply@blogger.com