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David Copperfield Charles Dickens #inbetweeny

Haven't written anything for a while as I was reading the doorstop that is David Copperfield. 700 plus pages of small writing can often leave you loosing the will to live but this didn't once. Yes I wanted to get it finished but only because I had a stack of other books waiting to be read not because I was finding the book tedious or boring.

I believe that the book was initially serialized and I think you can tell as each chapter was a little interesting story all by itself. I loved the characters especially David's (or should I say Trott's) aunt.

I was surprised by Dickens at some points - noting that the food in London wasn't as good as the food in the countryside due to the environment the animals had been raised in was way before its time!

Yes there was a certain predictability in the book but I really didn't mind. There was enough going on around to keep the reader entertained until you got there.

There was humour, villains, tragedy and triump by the bucketload and I thought the beginning in particular was heart breaking.

I have a number of Dickens novels still to read following on from my Dickens buying binge at the beginning of the year (after watching Dickensian) and whilst I won't be reading one straight away (I have the Christmas book club book to read after all) I certainly won't dread reading the next one.

Enjoyable. Long but enjoyable and lets face it, you would rather have it this way than short but boring.

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