Mini-rant...

[fajrdrako]

I would be really, really happy if I never read another Jack/Ianto fic in which Jack asks Ianto to stop calling him 'sir'.

Please.

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Re: Dickens

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

his last 3 finished novels

Which happen to be, probably, my favourites, though I do love Pickwick Papers (especially Sam Weller). I usually say Eugene Wrayburn is my favourite Dickens character, but I love Sydney Carton at least as much. That whole redemption-through-heroism thing.

yeah, isn't Eugene Wrayburn/Mortimer Lightwood the champion?

They are just beautiful together. Love their dialogue. Love the scenes where they are at the Venerring's dinner parties and Eugene is keeping Mortimer laughing by making rude and funny comments, and everyone thinks Mortimer is so cheerful, and Eugene so quiet.

Darnay/Carton is similiar to Jack/Jack in my mind: it's about another side of the mirror, about the man you should have been, and about the pure power of coincidences.

I must admit, when I cited Eugene and Mortimer as my slash pick from Dickens, I thought also of Darnay and Carton, so it must have been there in my head, lurking subcionsciously. "Too alike," I said to myself, but that's a strength as well as a weakness, and really, they are also a great study in contrasts.

I think Carton loves both Charles and Lucie.

He gives his life for both of them.

I am less familiar with Great Expectations and would have to read it again to say anything intelligent; I barely remember Herbert.

Re: Dickens

[myfavouriteplum.livejournal.com]

Eugene and Sydney definitely have to be cousins in the family of fictional characters. They are my favorite Dickens characters, too.
My feeling about 'Great Expectations' is very personal. And the pairing...must have come to my mind from watching Sir Alec Guinness as Herbert in David Lean's film version, which I catched on TV not long after I finished reading the novel.

Re: Dickens

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Eugene and Sydney definitely have to be cousins in the family of fictional characters. They are my favorite Dickens characters, too.

We do have a few fictional tastes in common, don't we?

I've never seen the David Lean movie.