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The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
This book is actually a collection of short stories/chapters that follows the adventures of the Pickwick Club as they head off to research life by travelling around England. The stories rely more on the characters than their adventures and there is much description of the places they go rather than what they do, which is interesting but not worth the many hundreds of pages that results. This Dickens' first work and it is certainly nowhere near his best but it does give an insight into Britain at the time and into Dickens' emerging talents. I think I would've enjoyed this more if I could relate to some of the characters but as this is based on the ol' boys club, this did prove a little difficult and some of them were just down right annoying which reduced my enjoyment somewhat. Not a bad read but not sure it is one I'll read again.