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A review by emberology
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
1.0
Eh. Dickens gone wrong. You're pretty much doomed, if you start reading his books with this one. Dull and so not funny. This is Dickens's first novel, so someone might say he deserves some slack. Don't understand that statement. No matter if it's a first or tenth novel, if it's bad it's bad.
The Pickwickians are silly characters, who occasionally meet some person who tells them a story to be added into the books of the Pickwick Club. That's basically it. I think Dickens was just trying to find his voice, and took the role of a literary caricaturist a bit too seriously. Some of the stories were ok, but I didn't understand their function in the story itself. Maybe because I've always hated Humpty Dumpty that I grew up hating the Pickwickians? Oh well, now I've read the book that started it all.
The Pickwickians are silly characters, who occasionally meet some person who tells them a story to be added into the books of the Pickwick Club. That's basically it. I think Dickens was just trying to find his voice, and took the role of a literary caricaturist a bit too seriously. Some of the stories were ok, but I didn't understand their function in the story itself. Maybe because I've always hated Humpty Dumpty that I grew up hating the Pickwickians? Oh well, now I've read the book that started it all.