Giving you the Dickens

My little early-morning expression of outrage that someone got away with naming a character "Sir Leigh Teabing" in a novel attracted a small handful of comments, including this from Jeopardygirl:

Dude, you can't seriously reject reading a book or watching a movie based on a character's NAME. If that were the case, no one would ever read Charles Dickens.

Putting aside for the moment that I rejected reading the book or watching the movie long before I read about this name: Names like David Copperfield, Pip, Oliver Twist, and Ebenezer Scrooge are fantastic.

They have color, they have rhythm. Try saying them aloud, you'll enjoy saying them. Then try saying "Sir Leigh Teabing." Like eating black licorice when your mouth is set for red...the man just shouldn't be able to do that with a name...