thebooksofwrath 's review for:

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

3.0

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I suppose it doesn’t take a genius to imagine what kind of a mess is bound to happen when a group of blundering men get together on their own without the womenfolk to keep everything in order. Certainly one of my least favourite of the Dickins novels; it is more focused on farcical vignettes the sticking to a general plot, which kind of happens in the overarching background in the second half of the book. A sheer serial novel by name, like an episode of the week kind of deal. It was a mouthful to complete, I found. Overly descriptive, as a typical Victorian novel, and a typical Dickens’, but it could not maintain my interest like some of his other works.