# "Reading Thomas Hardy is like eating a pillow."

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**Post date:** [August 31, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-thomas-hardy-is-like-eating-a-pillow/508416/6 "2009-08-31T23:23:27Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> And I find some Dickens impenetrable – **Hard Times** and **The Pickwicj Papers**.

You might have had better luck with the latter if you didn’t try to read it in Polish.

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