mcastello13 's review for:

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

4.5

adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I’m on a years-long quest to read all of Dickens’s works, and this year decided to go back to the beginning. This was such a joy to read (for the most part) and it still astounds me to think Dickens wrote this when he was only 24. Although it doesn’t have nearly the same emotional weight and complexity as my two favorites (David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend), it still offers all the trademarks of Dickens’s brilliance, along with a lot more lightness than most of his other work. I so enjoyed reading a chapter a day for the past few months, and am a bit sad to now be saying goodbye to  the members of the Pickwick Club.