Hey! Do you have favorite author?
I really enjoyed reading Charles Dickson novel the Christmas Carol and Oliver twist. Both are very well told tales. 
So you like Dickens as well? He is my favorite. His attention to those who live in poverty is so empathetic and a necessary perspective. Whether you are well-off and are reading him and have a chance to think about ways to help the poor in your own life, or whether you are poor and realize that someone sees you. It is valuable for both. 
Yes i do. Yes he has such an incredible skill to literally make you feel as though you are with the story you are ready. Especially Oliver twist. And too think there were houses like that back in the days, that recruited young children more so young boys to steal.  
Exactly. Being an American living in a relatively prosperous time, it's easy to not think about those things but thankfully Dickens forces us to pay attention. I have seen others who prefer Trollope, and he is good and definitely a more conservative voice who pays attention to corruption in the Church and government. But Dickens is just on another level. Do you have any other favorite authors?  
 The change that has happened from back in the days are really quite extravagant. He is defiantly one of the greats when it come to authors that is for certain. Even though its a complete change to Dickens i really enjoyed ready Roald Dahl books. Charlie and the chocolate factory and Matilda are such classic of my childhood and i could still read them today.  
Dahl is great! His books are good for all ages. As C.S. Lewis once said, one day you will be old enough to read fairy tales again. Those "childhood" tales hold truths that are valuable for all times in our lives. Sometimes, we needed to be reminded of them, and sometimes, its just good to escape to the comfort of those tales. My favorite fairy tale writer is George MacDonald. He was religious, but his writer is very vivid and can be enjoyed by anyone.
Never hurts to re-read the books that brung a lot of happy memories as child and re-live them just the same. I have read a few of George MacDonalds books, he offers a insight into the life of Jesus through his stories.  
Yeah, he definitely had a lot of religious allusions in his writings. He was a preacher, so it was completely natural for that to bleed through in his fiction. I think that is why I like Charles Dickens. Even though, his writing is not overtly religious; he still gets to the heart of religion which is to love one's neighbor. 
Yeah he absolutely did but talking about the religious attributes just worked so well with what he wrote about. He also wrote some incredible poetry, they are worth the read such powerful messages in each one. But I would defiantly say that Charles Dickens stories have always left such an impression.
Yeah, Charles Dickens was not fond of evangelicalism or catholicism. But that was likely due to him seeing them being taken advantage of by those institutions. Personally, I think religion can be a good things, and I believe that Charles Dickens is right to be mad about religious corruption, just wish he wouldn't dismiss it all together. There's good and bad in a lot societal institutions.