The truth hurts, eh? Robeson was a communist who offered his incredibly naive sympathies to a thug like Stalin. Robeson even once proclaimed that in the USSR he "experienced no racism". lmao. By the 1950's any idiot could have seen through the Soviet facade,...and yet Robeson didn't. Orwell was more astute; or could it be that Robeson just hated(western) white people?
Robeson's epitaph says it all--it's the motto of an activist, not an artist.
Google Amanda Casabianca and Paul Robeson. I work for and co-founded Bay Area Robeson a non-Profit and have been a Robeson Scholar for over a decade. You are spouting fiction and you know virtually NOTHING about PR. He has NEVER been identified as member of ANY CP group despite his beliefs in Marxism. He would have been jailed under The Smith act as the surveillance (thanks George) and persecution was relentless during his life.
READ A BOOK OR TEN ABOUT THE MAN YOU TWIT! YOU KNOW NOTHING!
Orwell's life was a drop in the bucket compared to PR's achievements. Orwell may have books in print but he will always be a product of empire-its in almost everyone of his books especially Wigan Pier and AHTC.
Colonial apologists like you (PR loved ALL races btw) magically forget that many white artists also believed in the USSR but the of course escaped vilification due to their color.
You have no idea what fascism Robeson or blacks faced in the US pre-civil rights. PR was right not to bow.
PR felt that criticism of the Soviet Union by someone of his immense international popularity would only serve to shore up reactionary elements in the U.S. (which it would of) , the same elements that had lifted his passport, blocked anti-lynching legislation, and maintained a racial climate in the United States that also allowed Jim Crow, impoverished living conditions for all races and a white supremacist domination of the US government to continue. Google Rankin, Bilbo and martin Dies
So are you a black man in the 1930's who's father was an escaped slave and who was there at the start of the USSR, with all its defects, interested in a this new system? Were you in his shoes?
No.
So how about not buying into everything the Regan/Thatcheites told you to swallow like a good sheep?? But yeah, in the US we get housing and health care for all. Banks don't get SOCIALIZED welfare do they? We don't spy on citizens either? Of course not!!
Orwell snitched for the precursor to MI5, it's well documented. I still thing Wigan Pier and AHTC are incredibly great books but for Orwell to cry out against Stalinist thinking and then become an informant-an informant that went after people in very vicious ways, including of all people Paul Robeson, is hypocritical and pathetic.
I would like to see where you get your sources because that sounds like a load of rubbish. I suppose Orwell is quite the load for you, intellectually.
Orwell had his own opinions when he clashed with the socialist paper who assigned him to travel to Wigan where he found the working classes too discouraged to care about a workers revolution. As you may already know that Orwell in 2007 was revealed as a government informant whose list of 'communists' was kept secret for almost half a century.
This list included a few Americans including Paul Robeson who was nearly hounded to death by the FBI and CIA and who gave a lot people in the bay area via supporting Longshoremen, UEW and other unions apart from being one of history's most talented performers, athletes, political artists and black role model-shamefully erased by anti-Communism hysteria
I like a few of Orwell's books, but that kind of killed it for me...
Orwell is high school English, that's why my 2 faves of his they never make you read in high school because one is a critique of socialism and the poor (not Stalinism like AF) and the other is HTC. All of his snitching is well documented, you have to do the research. It's not hard, just look beyond his wikipage which is actually very spartan considering how well known he is.
Orwell was proof that you can take the progressive out of the Empire but you can't the Empire out of the progressive.
Your such a fool. I learned Shakespeare in 12th grade and Joyce in 11th!
Have you ever attempted to read Ulysses. Its one of the most difficult novels of all time! Your argument is poor. There is no correlation between difficulty and grade level-unless its in elementary school.
Orwell was an author. He loved literature and hated totalitarianism. He exploited the latter and exploited it with style.
Postalock: I sat in on a Joyce reading class when I was in POLAND! Joyce is my Best F's favorite writer. He knows Ulysses like his own family. I am impressed you tried it in the 11th grade!!
I was just about to finish drying the dead skin off my cheeks when I noticed your post. Yes, I have read a lot of Orwell's work. I am currently reading Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I noticed that he briefly discusses many of the topics in 1984 in his earlier novels and its interesting how much he grew as a writer and intellectual.
I'm a 6'5 white kid who loves literature. I'm not the middle aged woman who shows her breast on youtube. You point one finger at me, but there are three pointing back at you.
I would think a woman with a love for Dickens would have a little more class.
Well the imagination dies at 60. Considering the majority of your videos are focused on your breast I would say your imagination died at 15 so in reality you are elderly.
...just noticed the detalis behind you....the balloons,the barbie doll,the cherry,harry and raquel film i mentioned previously....a wonderful piece of pop art.
You don't know dick or Dickens. CHAV is a very nasty class foul expression that Dickens himself would have recoiled from. So yes, you suck like a Sunday Sport with no Boobs in it.
No, he was only born in my country and wrote Christmas Carol,bleak house, David Copperfield,Oliver, Pickworth papers etc etc etc.
Ive done Dickens festival, Rochester, and museum in Broadstairs.
And how do you know what Dickens would of recoiled from? He didnt look after his women very well in his storys. Nancy sykes, Charity and Mercy Pecksniff,Kate Nickelby to name a few.
And dont be so delicate, you were only told you werent taken serious in the video, which your most certainly not.
I think terms like CHAV are slurs like white trash or wog. Its my country now too and I happen to live in a council flat in London not far from many Dickensian literary landmarks with my husband. I was not referring to his private life or his treatment of women nor children, I was referring to your class nastiness which its clear CD despised. Class and economic oppression he hated-read Hard Times.
Wonder what was going through Dickens mind when he wrote in Nicholas Nickleby of Ralph Nickleby, Sir Mulbury Hawk, Lord Verisphot, Pluck and Pykes inproper beastly advances on Kate Nickleby?
The Old Curiosity Shop, I've had the complete Oxford Dickens for a while and I've really started going through his books in earnest starting with 'Sketches By Boz' and so far I've worked my way up to
'The Old Curiosity Shop'
Quilp is one nasty little piece of work,
Nobody could create really hissable villains like Dickens IMHO.
When I typed in Charles Dickens I was not expecting that! Surreal. But hey, it's good to know the great man is appreciated in all walks of life. One question, what was showing on the TV screen by the side of you? It didn't look like A Christmas Carol!
I must say that I adored "The Old Curiosity Shop". I read that in units of the weekly installments. "Is Little Nell dead?"--Boston harbor. Great book. My favorite Dickens novel too!
Read Old Curiosity Shop a few months ago and was startled by the almost expressionistic style. The passage where the Ravens are swooping over Nell's head in the little church graveyard took my breath away, as did the passage where Nell laments how quickly the dead are forgotten by the living.
I loved reading it aloud to myself, particularly the chapters involving Quilp and Dick Swiveller. It's a very underrated book, in my opinion.
I think it's perhaps his best. The critics say "Bleak House" but I would say David Copperfield, OCS or Hard Times. Dickens would have LOVED blogging then he could have published weekly to his hearts content.
Hey. I absolutley love Old Curiosity Shop. I was at this small town festival thing, that my town has every year, and I bought several Charles Dickens books for £2. And when I got them home, I discovered that they were all 1st editions. Including Old Curiosity shop! I feel so fortunate, and would recommened Charles Dickens to anyone! Great video! xxx
George Orwell cannot write worth crap. Dickens... now he's the veritable master. Not a writer since like him. Today, no writer can boast of his achievement. The level of it is staggering & people should really pay attention to his style if they ever desire to consider themselves a writer.
Hi, I was actually away from my computer most of the past five months but I wanted to thank you for such a great comment. Yes, Orwell is HUGELY overrated, not to people like Christopher Hitchens who are Neo-Cons but I think to anyone who has read Dickens and really understands how unstinting he was in his condemnation of class sees that Orwell never really graduated from high school.
WOW - one on one tutorials - sounds like my idea of heaven!!!!!! Not sure I could contain myself though & I'm sure would need a lot of teaching - just to keep my mind focused on the task!!!!!
I used to live on the Boundary by Shoreditch Church. I created this account before i got into being a You Tube celebrity so although my name is SUPER AMANDA my main account is Brick Lane Betty which is fine beacuse I LOVE GREAT BRITAIN and have since I was very little, it's my spiritual home. i also have a channel called superamandaaddiction and breastloverdd but BrickLane Betty really fits me and will be some kin of character in future vids especially when i get back home to Blighty.
I grew up in the street where Dickens once lived (Rochester, England, UK) and the local area is full of Dickens' history. There's a huge Dickens festival every year and many people come from the USA (and Japan, Europe etc) to experience the event. I've made a video of a brand new £62M visitor attraction just built in Rochester (England) if you look me up you can watch it. Maybe you'll come and visit one day!
It's usually in June - I tried posting you the link to the local Govt website for you but youtube wouldn't let me. Look up Medway Council Dickens Festival if you want to know more (it's a free event by the way).
Thanks for commenting on my video - much appreciated!
There are videos of me singing and playing piano in the name of Deryck Banks if you are interested. There are no Dickens tributes though... yet!
Bullshit, ask me anything about him because not only have I read those upteen times i've also raed his lesser know works like Dombey and Son, Barnaby Rudge and currently Hard Times for the 5th time. read through these comments, Charles Dickens is a God to me.
Ops i typed my comment wrong, my teacher is making me read it....just finished a week ago. It isnt so bad, i like the original ending in which esthella gets fucked over by pip lol...
I agree. i actually like both. But the reality of Estella and Pip just passing each other by in the park is so much more believable. Dickens had no choice but to change it. The public went bonkers when the ending was negative.
"On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora's flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, 'Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!'"
"I could not have wished for a prettier little wife at the opposite end of the table, but I certainly could have wished, when we sat down, for a little more room. I did not know how it was, but though there were only two of us, we were at once always cramped for room, and yet had always room enough to lose everything in. I suspect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip's pagoda, which invariably blocked up the main thoroughfare."
Go to bayarearobeson dot org you nefarious ghetto skank, plenty of people care about what I read and what I write but then as you obviously know ziltch about history or literature hating is your only option in game where you clearly come up so damn flat you're concave.
@fional: LOL, okay first of all yes I don't know shit about Dickens. I had to take poetry and lit in college and barely passed. I'm a scientist. Second, if you're a guy, YEAH RIGHT a in-depth discussion of Dickens brought you here LOL — @U. If you're a woman, well, then okay whatever LOL
She's quite right, Dickens is a nostalgic writer. So many of his novels, and certainly Great Expectations, are set before the Victorian Era. Dickens remembers, and laments for, his childhood.
Yes and he pines for a singular female too, to the point where more than a few books have been written just about Dickens' women and how they were coming from such a tortured and Victorian place in his incredibly complex heart.
In many ways, he was a proto-surrealist - the dream-life, needs and desires barely admitted to consciousness, are foregrounded, at the expense of 'Reality'
I totally agree, very apt assessment. so many think he's a gritty realist but it's clear he eschewed reality for an almost fantastical way of accepting it. and not just all the coincidences which were more a function of being serialized author but it the deeper meaning of the prose itself. "Hard Times" being a great example.
When it comes it Dickens' women, my favourite is Miss Dartle from David Copperfield. In a strange way, she seems to have wandered in from a different novel - possibly a French one. She is also the most astute character in the novel, and certainly the most embittered.
wow, I had almost forgotten about her but yes she is very French in that demanding yet thoughtful way, she had such an odd erotic connection to Steerforth too.cousins-crikey!
Dora Spenlow and her ridiculous dog Jip with his pagoda is the one I always think of as Dickens' feminine downfall.
Um how did I blow "the history" and when is ANY novel by Charles Dickens the "WRONG" novel? You don't know what you're speaking of.
I love Hard Times and I'm currently rereading David Copperfield, both great but the two i chose seemed the most approachable to those who are just disc. CD ie:those i want to reach. CD did not write so greybeards like you could blow smoke about how intellectual they are above others, he wrote them for everyone.
I was talking about Great Expectations. The version I was speaking of was the Alfonso Cuaron film with Ethan Hawke and Gwenyth Paltrow. I hope you agree that it was awful. The best one I've seen is the made for TV version directed by Joseph Hardy and starring Michael York and Sarah Miles. If you haven't seen it, check it out. But I'm sure you have.
never read the old ... shop but i have read Great Expectations. i tell alot of people or actors who have a hard time with shakespeare. to do some thing from dickens.
a Christmas Carol is other one that have been made into moives but never the same as the book.
I read most of Dickens around 20 years ago, then, tripping on his style, still tasting it, wrote parts of a book taking place across time in a simulacrum of that style. I remember thinking of it as an elaborate talking around a subject.
wow, that sounds like a great project and you started with the perfect template. I like how more and more as I get into life it becomes for me just like a Dickens novel.
actually I read the book a Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens a few years ago which is probably the book that made him so famous with the quote" it was the best of time it was the worst of times" its a very suspensful, action packed book with some tragedy in it that you would find in any shakespeare play and it deals with all the promblems that citizens and aristicrats had during the french revolution . personaaly my favorite book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
You guys have a wonderful sense of humor and good fun. Actually I have read all the classics several times over, but sad to say too many young people would say 'Classic what?' Coke? Actually Great Expectations still touches my heart.
It is so charming. Another fav of mine Hard Times is not so colorful but one of his darker horse works and definitely worth reading.Thanks for your sweetness
pungent who?...OK, you piqued my curiousity...BTW your voice reminds me of a former college professor...she was hot...Ma'am if you are single, you're startint to stoke me...I even dreamt about you last night...I'm 35 and disabled...I would like to meet a single woman with an XX genetic profile...I have some video ideas, but refuse to post videos since they WILL be pirated...
I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some old trading cards of famous people: Charles Dickens, Lord Baden-Powell of the scout movement, Winston Churchill, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Yuri Gagarin, Walt Disney....
Gilgamesh is pretty intense for you tube. i had a great illustrated version when I was a little kid and discovered that Sumerian myths pre-dated the Greeks.
great expectations may be light weight in comparison to your favs but imho it's important mythology in it's own right:)
Most true mythology is hard to explain in under ten minutes such as Zeus marrying his sister Hera!!
With Gilgamesh you want to spend a few hours on because it coincides with so much history that most people in the states sadly skip over. In the UK it's taught in schools but not here.
True, or you could just talk about one of the greatest theme of all time shared by Enkidu and Gilgamesh which is friendship, which is very much needed on youtube.
yep...i somehow got distracted... had to watch it several times to work out how... definitely from an admiring point of view...
CallMeMrRook 3 months ago
I didn't pay attention ,had to watch again.
scrumsie 6 months ago
what a fine pair u got
homer4556 1 year ago
Very Good!!!
AleGio1987 1 year ago
Boobs in bikinis always look so much nicer and more natural than in basques.
edwoodsable 2 years ago
LOL. I love it. A little narcissistic, but, hey, if nothing else it may spark an interest in the classics. Keep up the great work, Amanda!
VirtualVicedotNet 2 years ago
Oh, yes, impetuosity and petulent, like you, saucey minx.
whiff1962 2 years ago
The truth hurts, eh? Robeson was a communist who offered his incredibly naive sympathies to a thug like Stalin. Robeson even once proclaimed that in the USSR he "experienced no racism". lmao. By the 1950's any idiot could have seen through the Soviet facade,...and yet Robeson didn't. Orwell was more astute; or could it be that Robeson just hated(western) white people?
Robeson's epitaph says it all--it's the motto of an activist, not an artist.
video idea--braless jog on a treadmill!
MargaritasAntesPorco 2 years ago
Google Amanda Casabianca and Paul Robeson. I work for and co-founded Bay Area Robeson a non-Profit and have been a Robeson Scholar for over a decade. You are spouting fiction and you know virtually NOTHING about PR. He has NEVER been identified as member of ANY CP group despite his beliefs in Marxism. He would have been jailed under The Smith act as the surveillance (thanks George) and persecution was relentless during his life.
READ A BOOK OR TEN ABOUT THE MAN YOU TWIT! YOU KNOW NOTHING!
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Orwell's life was a drop in the bucket compared to PR's achievements. Orwell may have books in print but he will always be a product of empire-its in almost everyone of his books especially Wigan Pier and AHTC.
Colonial apologists like you (PR loved ALL races btw) magically forget that many white artists also believed in the USSR but the of course escaped vilification due to their color.
You have no idea what fascism Robeson or blacks faced in the US pre-civil rights. PR was right not to bow.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
PR felt that criticism of the Soviet Union by someone of his immense international popularity would only serve to shore up reactionary elements in the U.S. (which it would of) , the same elements that had lifted his passport, blocked anti-lynching legislation, and maintained a racial climate in the United States that also allowed Jim Crow, impoverished living conditions for all races and a white supremacist domination of the US government to continue. Google Rankin, Bilbo and martin Dies
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
"...USSR he "experienced no racism lmao"
So are you a black man in the 1930's who's father was an escaped slave and who was there at the start of the USSR, with all its defects, interested in a this new system? Were you in his shoes?
No.
So how about not buying into everything the Regan/Thatcheites told you to swallow like a good sheep?? But yeah, in the US we get housing and health care for all. Banks don't get SOCIALIZED welfare do they? We don't spy on citizens either? Of course not!!
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
"Robeson's epitaph says it all"
Yes it does:
The ARTIST must elect to fight for freedom or slavery.
Andy Warhol's stuff was mostly Pop art crap yet he was an artist-you do not define what an artist is.
Debbie Harry whom you have saved to favorites is an artist as well.
Both are talented but both are not activists. 90% of what i do is fight racism only about 10% is Russ Meyer breast fetishism. Russ was an artist too.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
I also realize that some of my posts have grammatical errors. I probably should proofread what I have written, but I'm simply too lazy.
postalsock 2 years ago
Lazy is good , life is too hard anyway.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
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postalsock 2 years ago
Orwell snitched for the precursor to MI5, it's well documented. I still thing Wigan Pier and AHTC are incredibly great books but for Orwell to cry out against Stalinist thinking and then become an informant-an informant that went after people in very vicious ways, including of all people Paul Robeson, is hypocritical and pathetic.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
I would like to see where you get your sources because that sounds like a load of rubbish. I suppose Orwell is quite the load for you, intellectually.
postalsock 2 years ago
Orwell had his own opinions when he clashed with the socialist paper who assigned him to travel to Wigan where he found the working classes too discouraged to care about a workers revolution. As you may already know that Orwell in 2007 was revealed as a government informant whose list of 'communists' was kept secret for almost half a century.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
This list included a few Americans including Paul Robeson who was nearly hounded to death by the FBI and CIA and who gave a lot people in the bay area via supporting Longshoremen, UEW and other unions apart from being one of history's most talented performers, athletes, political artists and black role model-shamefully erased by anti-Communism hysteria
I like a few of Orwell's books, but that kind of killed it for me...
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Orwell is high school English, that's why my 2 faves of his they never make you read in high school because one is a critique of socialism and the poor (not Stalinism like AF) and the other is HTC. All of his snitching is well documented, you have to do the research. It's not hard, just look beyond his wikipage which is actually very spartan considering how well known he is.
Orwell was proof that you can take the progressive out of the Empire but you can't the Empire out of the progressive.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Your such a fool. I learned Shakespeare in 12th grade and Joyce in 11th!
Have you ever attempted to read Ulysses. Its one of the most difficult novels of all time! Your argument is poor. There is no correlation between difficulty and grade level-unless its in elementary school.
Orwell was an author. He loved literature and hated totalitarianism. He exploited the latter and exploited it with style.
postalsock 2 years ago
Postalock: I sat in on a Joyce reading class when I was in POLAND! Joyce is my Best F's favorite writer. He knows Ulysses like his own family. I am impressed you tried it in the 11th grade!!
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
I'm seeing you do much to defend Orwell, so you may be talking about yourself? Have you ever read anything else besides 1984 or animal farm?
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
I was just about to finish drying the dead skin off my cheeks when I noticed your post. Yes, I have read a lot of Orwell's work. I am currently reading Keep the Aspidistra Flying. I noticed that he briefly discusses many of the topics in 1984 in his earlier novels and its interesting how much he grew as a writer and intellectual.
postalsock 2 years ago
I'm a 6'5 white kid who loves literature. I'm not the middle aged woman who shows her breast on youtube. You point one finger at me, but there are three pointing back at you.
I would think a woman with a love for Dickens would have a little more class.
postalsock 2 years ago
since when is 31 years old "middle aged"?
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Well the imagination dies at 60. Considering the majority of your videos are focused on your breast I would say your imagination died at 15 so in reality you are elderly.
postalsock 2 years ago
"V"
What does being white and your height have to with anything?
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Wow, I'm honestly shocked a bimbo like you can grasp Charles Dickens.
postalsock 2 years ago
Define "Bimbo."
I'm dressed to the wrists and i know exactly what I'm talking about.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
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postalsock 2 years ago
Love to hear you keep saying Dick...ens Amanda! You look great too! Tim
Chief122 2 years ago
...just noticed the detalis behind you....the balloons,the barbie doll,the cherry,harry and raquel film i mentioned previously....a wonderful piece of pop art.
illaveyoubutler 2 years ago
never mind dickens...russ meyers cherry, harry and raquel plays on the video screen... you are cultured, amanda.
illaveyoubutler 2 years ago
Hot little vixen, aint yu, here, heres a shiny penny for ye, dont spend it all at once what!
HenrySimmerson 2 years ago
wow best tits.
SMALE15 2 years ago
hard to focus on your words..))
Zionistsdid911 2 years ago
I love Charles dickens novels and TV adaptations, but a women talking about it is like a woman talking of football, not interested.
Theres only 1 Charles Dickens, guileful slatterns and Chavs in their knickers are in much abundance. So no.
JamesBenwick 2 years ago
You don't know dick or Dickens. CHAV is a very nasty class foul expression that Dickens himself would have recoiled from. So yes, you suck like a Sunday Sport with no Boobs in it.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
No, he was only born in my country and wrote Christmas Carol,bleak house, David Copperfield,Oliver, Pickworth papers etc etc etc.
Ive done Dickens festival, Rochester, and museum in Broadstairs.
And how do you know what Dickens would of recoiled from? He didnt look after his women very well in his storys. Nancy sykes, Charity and Mercy Pecksniff,Kate Nickelby to name a few.
And dont be so delicate, you were only told you werent taken serious in the video, which your most certainly not.
JamesBenwick 2 years ago 2
I think terms like CHAV are slurs like white trash or wog. Its my country now too and I happen to live in a council flat in London not far from many Dickensian literary landmarks with my husband. I was not referring to his private life or his treatment of women nor children, I was referring to your class nastiness which its clear CD despised. Class and economic oppression he hated-read Hard Times.
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
Wonder what was going through Dickens mind when he wrote in Nicholas Nickleby of Ralph Nickleby, Sir Mulbury Hawk, Lord Verisphot, Pluck and Pykes inproper beastly advances on Kate Nickleby?
Do you understand fanny?
JamesBenwick 2 years ago
"Do you understand fanny?"
haha, NN, is one of my least favourites!
BrickLaneBetty 2 years ago
I've just started reading
The Old Curiosity Shop, I've had the complete Oxford Dickens for a while and I've really started going through his books in earnest starting with 'Sketches By Boz' and so far I've worked my way up to
'The Old Curiosity Shop'
Quilp is one nasty little piece of work,
Nobody could create really hissable villains like Dickens IMHO.
cha5 2 years ago
Quilp really reminds me of
Robert Louis Stevenson's physical description of Edward Hyde somehow.
cha5 2 years ago
whaat!!
beautiful figure by the way,
but what the hell did she say!
punisher777legend 2 years ago
was that charles tittins or dickins
scorpio1066 2 years ago
Gorgeous,you could make anyone want to read those books as you made them sound interesting to everyone.
Chiguy38 3 years ago
When I typed in Charles Dickens I was not expecting that! Surreal. But hey, it's good to know the great man is appreciated in all walks of life. One question, what was showing on the TV screen by the side of you? It didn't look like A Christmas Carol!
Archiewhynot 3 years ago
Love Dickens and the video was riviting
Mikebro1956 3 years ago
read read read!!!!!
acerb45666555 3 years ago
I want to fuck you
maxi937 3 years ago 2
Love Dickens but Great Expectations...'was not all I hoped for'.....just kidding! lol Funny cameraman, wandering lens.
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago
You talking about classic literature is like Britney Spears giving a lecture on politics.
spazquestt 3 years ago
No it's not. Britney is uneducated while I read the entire collected works of Charles Dickens by my 30th birthday. You're just defensive and joyless.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
What a dumb shit... she put you in your place... stupid ass!!
TheMindRape 3 years ago
how are your boobs so round?
Kerpaltheballer 3 years ago
I'm healthy and perky naturally. Luck I guess.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
thats cool dickens is one my favorite authors, i already have read great expectations but i just picked up old curiosity shop. Its pretty good.
THANKS FOR RECOMMENDING IT =D
Kerpaltheballer 3 years ago
I must say that I adored "The Old Curiosity Shop". I read that in units of the weekly installments. "Is Little Nell dead?"--Boston harbor. Great book. My favorite Dickens novel too!
curmudgeon99 3 years ago
Read Old Curiosity Shop a few months ago and was startled by the almost expressionistic style. The passage where the Ravens are swooping over Nell's head in the little church graveyard took my breath away, as did the passage where Nell laments how quickly the dead are forgotten by the living.
I loved reading it aloud to myself, particularly the chapters involving Quilp and Dick Swiveller. It's a very underrated book, in my opinion.
mrblifil 3 years ago
I think it's perhaps his best. The critics say "Bleak House" but I would say David Copperfield, OCS or Hard Times. Dickens would have LOVED blogging then he could have published weekly to his hearts content.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
Charles Dickens? Hard Times. Chickens.
sickletrap 3 years ago
George Orwell wrote a very good essay about Dickens which you should read.
blackmichael75 3 years ago
Thanks!!!! Wow, despite being a Dickens fan and reading a few of Orwell's books (Homage and Wigan Pier) I never caught this.THANKS SO MUCH!
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
You can find it in his book of Essays published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2000. All his essays are well worth reading.
blackmichael75 3 years ago
Have you read Shaw on Shakespeare? that's another one of those heavyweights taking on the uber-heavyweights. also watch the video Chaucer KOs Eliot.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
I like T.S. Eliot and i like Chaucer. Comparing them is daft.
Interesting to read Tolstoy's views on Shakespeare. He thinks he's rubbish, over-rated.
blackmichael75 3 years ago
Hey. I absolutley love Old Curiosity Shop. I was at this small town festival thing, that my town has every year, and I bought several Charles Dickens books for £2. And when I got them home, I discovered that they were all 1st editions. Including Old Curiosity shop! I feel so fortunate, and would recommened Charles Dickens to anyone! Great video! xxx
SupawSimba 3 years ago
George Orwell cannot write worth crap. Dickens... now he's the veritable master. Not a writer since like him. Today, no writer can boast of his achievement. The level of it is staggering & people should really pay attention to his style if they ever desire to consider themselves a writer.
CatLitterOne 3 years ago
Hi, I was actually away from my computer most of the past five months but I wanted to thank you for such a great comment. Yes, Orwell is HUGELY overrated, not to people like Christopher Hitchens who are Neo-Cons but I think to anyone who has read Dickens and really understands how unstinting he was in his condemnation of class sees that Orwell never really graduated from high school.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
Actually he went to Eton. Did you ever manage to read that essay then?
blackmichael75 3 years ago
I wanna be ur slave...please.
richardyingren 3 years ago
Do you seriously expect me to concentrate on the books!!!!!!!!!!!
jackal2071 3 years ago
uh, yeah?
danHiBiKiFaNaTiC 3 years ago
uh, yeah?
danHiBiKiFaNaTiC 3 years ago
sure! Do you need one on one tutorials? They do help.
BrickLaneBetty 3 years ago
WOW - one on one tutorials - sounds like my idea of heaven!!!!!! Not sure I could contain myself though & I'm sure would need a lot of teaching - just to keep my mind focused on the task!!!!!
jackal2071 3 years ago
man your boobs are so big
globadob 3 years ago
man your boobs are so big
globadob 3 years ago
The fact that you are smart makes you sexier.
croat88 4 years ago
I'm reading the old curiosity shop right now, but u shouldn't have said "the sad fate of nell"
wuasaby 4 years ago
SORRY! :(
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Why do you call yourself BrickLaneBetty? Do you live there?
proinsiaspad 4 years ago
I used to live on the Boundary by Shoreditch Church. I created this account before i got into being a You Tube celebrity so although my name is SUPER AMANDA my main account is Brick Lane Betty which is fine beacuse I LOVE GREAT BRITAIN and have since I was very little, it's my spiritual home. i also have a channel called superamandaaddiction and breastloverdd but BrickLane Betty really fits me and will be some kin of character in future vids especially when i get back home to Blighty.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Super Amanda! One word... WoW!
I grew up in the street where Dickens once lived (Rochester, England, UK) and the local area is full of Dickens' history. There's a huge Dickens festival every year and many people come from the USA (and Japan, Europe etc) to experience the event. I've made a video of a brand new £62M visitor attraction just built in Rochester (England) if you look me up you can watch it. Maybe you'll come and visit one day!
yourwebvideo 4 years ago
Im excited! when is it???!
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
It's usually in June - I tried posting you the link to the local Govt website for you but youtube wouldn't let me. Look up Medway Council Dickens Festival if you want to know more (it's a free event by the way).
Thanks for commenting on my video - much appreciated!
There are videos of me singing and playing piano in the name of Deryck Banks if you are interested. There are no Dickens tributes though... yet!
yourwebvideo 4 years ago
I am going as Cissy Jupe!
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
In that case, I'll be going as Tom Gradgrind!
yourwebvideo 4 years ago
Why do you call yourself, BrickLaneBetty?
Do you live there?
proinsiaspad 4 years ago
im still on the 10th page of tom sawyers adventures
SildRain 4 years ago
Generic comments. 10 bucks says she's never read either. Everyone knows he was a serial author.
perv33 4 years ago
Bullshit, ask me anything about him because not only have I read those upteen times i've also raed his lesser know works like Dombey and Son, Barnaby Rudge and currently Hard Times for the 5th time. read through these comments, Charles Dickens is a God to me.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Why are you judging her? If only more people were as inspired... what have you done lately? Yeah... thought so. NOTHING.
CatLitterOne 3 years ago
boobs and brains....will you marry me?
brabon 4 years ago
you cant tell those are real?? they jiggle
brabon 4 years ago
great books love um :P...oh yeah and nice jugs :)
467160 4 years ago
What the Dickens?!
(I like 'Tale Of Two Cities')
BrighellaLazzi 4 years ago
No! can't you see I have hips and legs that match the boobs? I would have gone much bigger if i was stuffin. ;)
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Great Expectations...worse book..ever...making my 9th grade class read a shit book like that...
pimpizzle2 4 years ago
Then have them read 'Hard Times' or 'Old curiosity Shop'
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Ops i typed my comment wrong, my teacher is making me read it....just finished a week ago. It isnt so bad, i like the original ending in which esthella gets fucked over by pip lol...
pimpizzle2 4 years ago
I agree. i actually like both. But the reality of Estella and Pip just passing each other by in the park is so much more believable. Dickens had no choice but to change it. The public went bonkers when the ending was negative.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
'Tale of two cities'.......
rob451111 4 years ago
tale of two titties
commandobandit 4 years ago
Porno in the backround!!! Zoom in and look!!!
brokenlove19 4 years ago
LMFAO sublimeted messages.
ticia40 4 years ago
Honey !YES I do want to be father of yer child . Just say when . aNd where ? sAUSALITO ?
aLCATRAZ ?
Why not ?
Hope for girl child /children . Just as beaut as yerself.
Hemulen40 4 years ago
get a tripod!
also, i like your scenery and how it drips with femininity
deluxe93amstrat 4 years ago
Nice Tits
raasay07 4 years ago 5
can someone plz tell me where i can buy a super amanda palities vid plz?! i cant find one...:,-( whaaaaaaa i need my waist to get tiny
fatimah2001 4 years ago 2
When i put out a pilates video you will be the first to know! Promise! soon!
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
my tution teacher has big boobs like this lady
kshitij098 4 years ago
Old Charles would have loved u Betty/Amanda ! Just as I do . You´re some bright woman . Give off a lotta light .
Thanks !
Hemulen40 4 years ago
......oh you said cities....not..... :P
phillipcraig1 4 years ago
"On the present occasion, Traddles was so hemmed in by the pagoda and the guitar-case, and Dora's flower-painting, and my writing-table, that I had serious doubts of the possibility of his using his knife and fork; but he protested, with his own good-humour, 'Oceans of room, Copperfield! I assure you, Oceans!'"
fionalawsonstalksme 4 years ago
"I could not have wished for a prettier little wife at the opposite end of the table, but I certainly could have wished, when we sat down, for a little more room. I did not know how it was, but though there were only two of us, we were at once always cramped for room, and yet had always room enough to lose everything in. I suspect it may have been because nothing had a place of its own, except Jip's pagoda, which invariably blocked up the main thoroughfare."
fionalawsonstalksme 4 years ago
Sweetheart no one cares about what books you so-called "read" LMAO I hate you.
R0YALLIONESS 4 years ago
Go to bayarearobeson dot org you nefarious ghetto skank, plenty of people care about what I read and what I write but then as you obviously know ziltch about history or literature hating is your only option in game where you clearly come up so damn flat you're concave.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
so 'royallionpiss' are you even able to keep up or contribute anything to a discussion about Dickens? can you even pretend to? get a life hater.
fionalawsonstalksme 4 years ago
@fional: LOL, okay first of all yes I don't know shit about Dickens. I had to take poetry and lit in college and barely passed. I'm a scientist. Second, if you're a guy, YEAH RIGHT a in-depth discussion of Dickens brought you here LOL — @U. If you're a woman, well, then okay whatever LOL
R0YALLIONESS 4 years ago
She's quite right, Dickens is a nostalgic writer. So many of his novels, and certainly Great Expectations, are set before the Victorian Era. Dickens remembers, and laments for, his childhood.
drsigh 4 years ago
Yes and he pines for a singular female too, to the point where more than a few books have been written just about Dickens' women and how they were coming from such a tortured and Victorian place in his incredibly complex heart.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
In many ways, he was a proto-surrealist - the dream-life, needs and desires barely admitted to consciousness, are foregrounded, at the expense of 'Reality'
drsigh 4 years ago
I totally agree, very apt assessment. so many think he's a gritty realist but it's clear he eschewed reality for an almost fantastical way of accepting it. and not just all the coincidences which were more a function of being serialized author but it the deeper meaning of the prose itself. "Hard Times" being a great example.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
When it comes it Dickens' women, my favourite is Miss Dartle from David Copperfield. In a strange way, she seems to have wandered in from a different novel - possibly a French one. She is also the most astute character in the novel, and certainly the most embittered.
drsigh 4 years ago
wow, I had almost forgotten about her but yes she is very French in that demanding yet thoughtful way, she had such an odd erotic connection to Steerforth too.cousins-crikey!
Dora Spenlow and her ridiculous dog Jip with his pagoda is the one I always think of as Dickens' feminine downfall.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Look at that outfit, i just want to bend her over, and just tear her up from behind. Give it to her hard for long hours
Honest2theextreme 4 years ago
....is she wearing pants???
If only university had looked more like that. Would've been far more motivation to make it to class...
DigitalRed 4 years ago
I have a comment for you, extracted from one of Dicken's most famous 'works', Oliver Twist....'can I have some more, please'?
rob451111 4 years ago
Gradgrind.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
disappointing that in an attempt to appear intellectual she completely blew the history and picked the wrong novels...
rkhoosier22 4 years ago
Um how did I blow "the history" and when is ANY novel by Charles Dickens the "WRONG" novel? You don't know what you're speaking of.
I love Hard Times and I'm currently rereading David Copperfield, both great but the two i chose seemed the most approachable to those who are just disc. CD ie:those i want to reach. CD did not write so greybeards like you could blow smoke about how intellectual they are above others, he wrote them for everyone.
-Super Amanda
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
tale of two titties? it was the breast of times the the worst of times...
bigeffendeal 4 years ago
The movie didn't do the book justice!
mikeyd518 4 years ago
mikey: which movie version of which book if i may ask?
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
I was talking about Great Expectations. The version I was speaking of was the Alfonso Cuaron film with Ethan Hawke and Gwenyth Paltrow. I hope you agree that it was awful. The best one I've seen is the made for TV version directed by Joseph Hardy and starring Michael York and Sarah Miles. If you haven't seen it, check it out. But I'm sure you have.
mikeyd518 4 years ago
I agree! it was a weak adaptation. My favorite is still the very wonderful one directed by David Lean. I'll check out he other one you recommend.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Super Amanda, I think you are awesome! These books are awesome as well. Keep up the great work! Love the outfits!
mikeyd518 4 years ago
never read the old ... shop but i have read Great Expectations. i tell alot of people or actors who have a hard time with shakespeare. to do some thing from dickens.
a Christmas Carol is other one that have been made into moives but never the same as the book.
thegreatactor 4 years ago
I read most of Dickens around 20 years ago, then, tripping on his style, still tasting it, wrote parts of a book taking place across time in a simulacrum of that style. I remember thinking of it as an elaborate talking around a subject.
kellyevans 4 years ago
wow, that sounds like a great project and you started with the perfect template. I like how more and more as I get into life it becomes for me just like a Dickens novel.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
less talking more palates ok??
feistyferret 4 years ago
is this supposed to be soft core porn or informational? not a very good example of either
sleighte 4 years ago
?? It's not supposed to be anything generic mr. slieighte. What have YOU read lately?
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
actually I read the book a Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens a few years ago which is probably the book that made him so famous with the quote" it was the best of time it was the worst of times" its a very suspensful, action packed book with some tragedy in it that you would find in any shakespeare play and it deals with all the promblems that citizens and aristicrats had during the french revolution . personaaly my favorite book is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
jchavista89 4 years ago
I think the GG is the most universally popular classic i've ever heard of, not my prefer. author nor era but I can see why it's reigns to this day.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Quite forthright and frankly candid. How's that for convoluted praise?
DogzillaRex 4 years ago
C.D. himself would have approved. :)
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
does you back hurt?lol
ItalianStallone89 4 years ago
Love Dickens but Great Expectations...'was not all I hoped for'.....just kidding! lol Funny cameraman, wandering lens.
Bobofet241 4 years ago
My favorite is BLEAK HOUSE, but it's not necessarily the most accessible or best entry to his work.
ianmcdowell 4 years ago
Nabokov thought it was probably the best and so do many critics so bully for you!
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
You guys have a wonderful sense of humor and good fun. Actually I have read all the classics several times over, but sad to say too many young people would say 'Classic what?' Coke? Actually Great Expectations still touches my heart.
Bobofet241 4 years ago
It is so charming. Another fav of mine Hard Times is not so colorful but one of his darker horse works and definitely worth reading.Thanks for your sweetness
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
I'm having a hard concentrating on what she's saying. Something about Dickens.
JoeSaviano 4 years ago
I have read the complete works of Dickens, even his non-fiction. Let's get married. You are American, I am Canadian, and we both love Dickens.
samuelmorrison 4 years ago
pungent who?...OK, you piqued my curiousity...BTW your voice reminds me of a former college professor...she was hot...Ma'am if you are single, you're startint to stoke me...I even dreamt about you last night...I'm 35 and disabled...I would like to meet a single woman with an XX genetic profile...I have some video ideas, but refuse to post videos since they WILL be pirated...
lmora013 4 years ago
"Punch and Judy!" hahhaha
Super Amanda is only a character ;) Don't fear your work being pirated it's a great way to express yourself!
superamandaaddiction 4 years ago
a good work out for me
diamonddave103 4 years ago
Wow! You could talk about quantum physics and still have my rapt attention!
sjz2 4 years ago
sorry my dear, i somehow had a little problem focussing on what you just said. i was busy scanning your hot body!
denniscrystal 4 years ago
I like your video clip and have rated it as awesome. Please check out mine on some old trading cards of famous people: Charles Dickens, Lord Baden-Powell of the scout movement, Winston Churchill, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Chaplin, Yuri Gagarin, Walt Disney....
creamofcardstv 4 years ago
Great expectations has to be one of the worst books of all time. Who would name an character in a book Pip?
javier146 4 years ago
Pirrup was his full name. what do think are the best books buddy?
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Epic of Gilgamesh, Ramayana, Les Miserables. Top 3 that come to my head right now.
javier146 4 years ago
Gilgamesh is pretty intense for you tube. i had a great illustrated version when I was a little kid and discovered that Sumerian myths pre-dated the Greeks.
great expectations may be light weight in comparison to your favs but imho it's important mythology in it's own right:)
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
Yes Uruk is a very old civilization. Why do you think Gilgamesh is intense for youtube?
javier146 4 years ago
Most true mythology is hard to explain in under ten minutes such as Zeus marrying his sister Hera!!
With Gilgamesh you want to spend a few hours on because it coincides with so much history that most people in the states sadly skip over. In the UK it's taught in schools but not here.
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
True, or you could just talk about one of the greatest theme of all time shared by Enkidu and Gilgamesh which is friendship, which is very much needed on youtube.
javier146 4 years ago
GREAT IDEA JAVIER!!! okay, i'll make sure to give you credit. friendship is truly needed agreed :)
BrickLaneBetty 4 years ago
damn not only is she sexy she is smart too what a combo!!
justjerryt 4 years ago
I'd LOVE to MOTORBOAT those Boobies!!
KuracUDupe 4 years ago
she needs to drop those books and pick them up again...
a7x4lyfeand4always 4 years ago
Is this a "Tale Of Two Titties"?
dvszl 4 years ago
what a set of tits! Wow!
scconkhead 4 years ago
well we can see why she got hired
Maxell303 4 years ago
I enjoy how this video shows your intelligence, rather than just an attractive woman. Unfortunately, not all of your videos show this.
Xanza781 4 years ago