First sentence: "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero ofmy own life, or whether that station will be held by anybodyelse, these pages must show."P. 99: "I could not restrain my eye from resting for aninstant on a red spot upon it; but it was not so red as I turned,when I met that sinister express...
It was my new year's resolution to read David Copperfield. And over half the year slipped away with this huge volume looming on my nightstand. I didn't really want to read it. I like Dickens, but sometimes he grates on me (e.g. Bleak House). But I didn't want to shirk. And now that it's done I know ...
Boring Charles Dickens, like Jane Austen, I find the majority of his works predictable and boring. Plus, I really wasn't impressed with him as a human being, so I am sure that plays into it as well!
Admittedly, I am a huge Dickens fan. I have read many of his books and enjoyed all of them. His bizarre characters, complex plots, and humorous dialog resonate with me. That being said, David Copperfield stands out as being one of the my favorites. With the audiobook classics, I usually listen o...
I enjoyed reading this and as always Dickens characters are amazing and memorable. On the other hand I found the plot weaker than some of his others. It was more episodic so I found it slightly slow going. This was particularly true at the beginning where every turn of fortune heaps more misery o...
Rich, dense, and very good. The problem I ran into with this is the archaic morality, the way women are irredeemably ruined at the hands of cads and bounders. Aside from that, I enjoyed this long and excellent book. The cast of characters is multitudinous and well-differentiated, the plotting is del...
[These notes were made in 1983; I read a 1966 edition:]. This is a long book, and I read it very quickly, and with that hunger for truly great literature that one doesn't realize is in one until one's been wading through mediocrities for a few months. I shall be trying to do it justice in other way...
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