3.69 AVERAGE


I almost finished! I had like 75 left and I just couldn't keep going. I hear the ending is exciting though.

English Review below.

كان هذا مملًا ومتكررًا إلى أقصى الحدود. لن أحكم على ديكنز من هذا الكتاب ، لكن هذا كان كتابًا مملًا. إنها رواية ديكنز الأولى وهي تتبع بعض الرجال الإنجليز في مشكلاتهم ورحلاتهم في أنحاء البلاد ، وهم يفعلون شيئًا لم أستطع فهمه. بدأت كرحلة لكتابة كتاب أو شيء ما (بصراحة لا أتذكر) ، وهم يجيدون عن هذا الهدف طوال الوقت لأنه في كل فصل يتورط أحدهم في مشكلة جديدة.

نُشرت الرواية في شكل حلقات في جريدة أول ما صدرت، لذلك ربما كان هذا هو سبب كونها مملة وتكرارية ومليئة بالمط المبالغ لهذه الدرجة، لكنني قرأت أعمالًا متسلسلة أخرى ولم تكن بهذا السوء. قد ألوم الترجمة أيضًا ، فقد كانت سيئة جدا للأسف. على أي حال، أعتقد أنني أعرف يقينًا من فاز في الجولة الأولى من ديكنز ضد تولستوي.

This was boring and repetitive to the max. I'm not judging Dickens by this book, but this was such a boring book. It's Dickens' first novel and it follows some English men on their shenanigans and their travels around the country, doing something I couldn't understand. It started off as a journey to write a book or something (I honestly don't remember), and they veer off that goal all the time because at every chapter one of them gets entangled in a new trouble.

It was serialised, so that's maybe it was the way it was, but I've read other serialised works and they weren't this horrible. I might also blame the translation, it was horrible. All in all, I think who won in the first round of Dickens vs Tolstoy.
adventurous emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

"LOS PICKWICKIANOS
El primer rayo de luz que ilumina la tiniebla y convierte en fulgor deslumbrante esa oscuridad en que parecen envolverse los comienzos de la historia de la vida pública del inmortal Pickwick surge al leer las siguientes anotaciones en las « Actas del Club Pickwick », que el editor de estos escritos siente el más alto placer en presentar ante sus lectores , como prueba de la cuidadosa atención, infatigable asiduidad y elegante discriminación con que se ha desarrollado su investigación entre los diversos papeles a él confiados."

Los papeles póstumos del club Pickwick, 1837
Charles Dickens
Traducción de José María Valverde
@penguinclasicos

La primera novela de Charles Dickens se publicó por entregas entre abril de 1836 y noviembre de 1837, convirtiendo cada entrega en un acontecimiento literario.

La hemos leído, comentado y disfrutado en la LC organizada por Vi @teconlibros para #técondickens, siguiendo el esquema original y respetando las entregas, aderezado todo con un montón de información extra, ilustraciones y curiosidades

The 3-stars are only relative to Dickens’ later work - PP is hysterical and smart but being his first “novel” it obviously has its flaws. There isn’t any all-encompassing plot as these are really a loosely connected series of the eponymous gentleman’s adventures and it follows that it doesn’t pack the same scathing punch as Our Mutual Friend or Bleak House. That said, it’s very enjoyable and I couldn’t write something like this at age 24 myself. The horror, the horror.

I didn't finish the book. I tried so hard to get through every chapter. The writing style annoyed me greatly despite the story and characters being so compelling. I truly wish a modern author would rewrite all of Dickens' work so that it were more approachable.

This was Dickens' first novel, and it follows the escapades of Mr. Pickwick and his friends as they travel about meeting and interacting with various English characters. The social ineptitude of Mr. Pickwick's entourage was quite amusing at times, and they sure did manage to get themselves into (and out of) a number of ticklish situations. The end of the novel seemed to become a clarion call to recognize the immorality of the legal profession in general and the idea of the debtor's prison (pertinent at that time in London society), in specific. As a fan of Dickens, I enjoyed reading this work which I had not read before, and I would recommend it to anyone who is partial to Mr. Dickens' literary oeuvre.

Not my favorite Dickens. It felt like he didn't know what he wanted to do with it for awhile -- the first parts were episodic, but the later parts had a bigger story arc. Still, we're treated to those wonderful Dickens characters. I read most of it, then finished by listening to the audio by Simon Prebble, which was great.
medium-paced