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3.9 AVERAGE
3.9 AVERAGE
slow-paced
so long and not worth it... david is a terrible main character, so passive, i do not care about him at all. betsey trotwood supremacy. heartily do not recommend
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
funny
medium-paced
adventurous
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I read this for a school assignment years ago because I guess I'm a masochist or something. Seven hundred and thirty two pages. Holy frick.
It was worth it though. Now I get to make jokes about Steerforth and Daisy being queercoded for the rest of my life, and I think that's a good tradeoff.
Daisy is SOOOOOO dumb!!! I love him! He's so stupid! He's my little guy! I just want to shake him like a rag doll.
This book is an undertaking but it's a lot of fun. Daisy's such a GOOF. The characters are great. I quote Micawber all the time. Yeah I don't know if I can recommend this to anyone but if you think reading 700+ pages of a 200 year old book might be up your alley, I say go for it. Had the time of my life.
It was worth it though. Now I get to make jokes about Steerforth and Daisy being queercoded for the rest of my life, and I think that's a good tradeoff.
Daisy is SOOOOOO dumb!!! I love him! He's so stupid! He's my little guy! I just want to shake him like a rag doll.
This book is an undertaking but it's a lot of fun. Daisy's such a GOOF. The characters are great. I quote Micawber all the time. Yeah I don't know if I can recommend this to anyone but if you think reading 700+ pages of a 200 year old book might be up your alley, I say go for it. Had the time of my life.
I have fallen in love with David Copperfield and all that is in him.
This book is the best mix of absurd and tender, and all the things I love best in a book, including, very importantly, a whole cast of characters to care about and who form a close merry band. I think we could not have done without one.
I liked in the book how we are made to care about each character, despite there being so many, and even those who are not really part of the main story, or who pop in an out, some even without names, you feel you could read a whole story fleshed out about them, that behind the quick glimpse of them, they are actually real people, with their own desires and interesting stories!
I think that I owe my opinion of this book to having watched The Personal History of David Copperfield first. This modern adaptation made the story so colourful, focusing on the ridiculous, not doing all the characters, so it could do the ones it did well, even changing the story, but keeping the spirit, and also having a diverse cast of characters, opened a door to this story that I believe would have otherwise stayed firmly shut, or perhaps just peeked in.
Other movies are so serious that they make the lighter characters and moments seem slapstick, but once I had watched that movie, all of it is there, in the book, but I never would have seen it I don't think had I not watched it first!
The turn of phrase is everything, the language is delightful, the humour is the best, and the real life hurt and bad is treated with a gentle hope.
I can see why some complain of the neat tying up of the ends at the end, it's there for sure, but why do we have to pick a camp here? Some fiction is fiction for a reason, other fiction is a reflection of life, you can have both and you don't need to decide one is better. Sometimes you want to read hard truths and face reality, other times you want everything to turn out ok. I think David Copperfield does both.
In defence of Dora, (from what I don't know, probably mice) I like Dora a lot. I like the movie Dora, I like the book Dora and I think they have a lot in common,
The movie Agnes and book Agnes are very very different. Both of them I like, movie Agnes a little better. It's hard to have such a perfect character and not make her a little dull.
That being said, I don't think David Copperfield is so nauseatingly good as some make him out to be, he has his weaknesses, and if he overcomes them it's not because he is trying very hard at times. And sometimes it's like he's not really there at all, just as if a whimsy film is in front of our eyes as we're focused on the others in the cast around him, but really when you think about it, his perception IS him, and it may not seem like anything at all in the way air is not really there but is actually the most important thing.
I like how the movie plays on the theme of the book bearing his name, but everyone else calling him whatever the hell they want, which can vary from very sweet (see Dora & Mr Peggotty; Doady, and Mas'r Davy) to a bit annoying or weird, and I liked how they added dyslexia and getting ppls voices stuck in your head. However yes, this is a review of the book, sorry.
I have never read a book by Dickens before, I think I would like to read more, now that my eyes are opened to the whimsical nature of the ridiculous humor and real life descriptions that I don't think I would have really seen or appreciated just by reading on my own. Well maybe, I'm not sure. But I'm glad I picked up this book, even if it did take me 27.42 hours at 233 wpm from the 1st August 2021 - 5th September 2021 to finish the gargantuan thing!
This book is the best mix of absurd and tender, and all the things I love best in a book, including, very importantly, a whole cast of characters to care about and who form a close merry band. I think we could not have done without one.
I liked in the book how we are made to care about each character, despite there being so many, and even those who are not really part of the main story, or who pop in an out, some even without names, you feel you could read a whole story fleshed out about them, that behind the quick glimpse of them, they are actually real people, with their own desires and interesting stories!
I think that I owe my opinion of this book to having watched The Personal History of David Copperfield first. This modern adaptation made the story so colourful, focusing on the ridiculous, not doing all the characters, so it could do the ones it did well, even changing the story, but keeping the spirit, and also having a diverse cast of characters, opened a door to this story that I believe would have otherwise stayed firmly shut, or perhaps just peeked in.
Other movies are so serious that they make the lighter characters and moments seem slapstick, but once I had watched that movie, all of it is there, in the book, but I never would have seen it I don't think had I not watched it first!
The turn of phrase is everything, the language is delightful, the humour is the best, and the real life hurt and bad is treated with a gentle hope.
I can see why some complain of the neat tying up of the ends at the end, it's there for sure, but why do we have to pick a camp here? Some fiction is fiction for a reason, other fiction is a reflection of life, you can have both and you don't need to decide one is better. Sometimes you want to read hard truths and face reality, other times you want everything to turn out ok. I think David Copperfield does both.
In defence of Dora, (from what I don't know, probably mice) I like Dora a lot. I like the movie Dora, I like the book Dora and I think they have a lot in common,
Spoiler
since Dickens killed her off in the book just after she realised the same truth that movie Dora does, just a bit earlier. I do like their marriage, it's very sweet, even if David Copperfield does make her hold his pens.The movie Agnes and book Agnes are very very different. Both of them I like, movie Agnes a little better. It's hard to have such a perfect character and not make her a little dull.
That being said, I don't think David Copperfield is so nauseatingly good as some make him out to be, he has his weaknesses, and if he overcomes them it's not because he is trying very hard at times. And sometimes it's like he's not really there at all, just as if a whimsy film is in front of our eyes as we're focused on the others in the cast around him, but really when you think about it, his perception IS him, and it may not seem like anything at all in the way air is not really there but is actually the most important thing.
I like how the movie plays on the theme of the book bearing his name, but everyone else calling him whatever the hell they want, which can vary from very sweet (see Dora & Mr Peggotty; Doady, and Mas'r Davy) to a bit annoying or weird, and I liked how they added dyslexia and getting ppls voices stuck in your head. However yes, this is a review of the book, sorry.
I have never read a book by Dickens before, I think I would like to read more, now that my eyes are opened to the whimsical nature of the ridiculous humor and real life descriptions that I don't think I would have really seen or appreciated just by reading on my own. Well maybe, I'm not sure. But I'm glad I picked up this book, even if it did take me 27.42 hours at 233 wpm from the 1st August 2021 - 5th September 2021 to finish the gargantuan thing!
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No