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sydsnot71 's review for:
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
I had forgotten to update this as I read it. But I've finally finished it. I'm not sure if I can write a review that does it justice. So, I'll just do my impressions.
1) It's less a novel and more a series of short stories wrapped up under the Pickwick banner.
2) It was a lot funnier than I expected.
3) Sam Weller is a great character. Spiritual ancestor of Jeeves?
4) But it is packed full of vivid characters.
5) Dickens knows how to write sketches. He'd have been one hell of a comedy writer in 2022.
6) The Fleet scenes are a superb combination of comedy, pathos and satire. You sense Dickens own life experience bubbling under.
7)Pickwick himself, moments of pomposity aside, seems adorably good-hearted.
8) So many story threads. So many characters. But Dickens manages the plate spinning so well that nothing gets smashed.
9) It's very funny. Laugh out loud funny. I say that again as it gets overlooked sometimes I think in the enforced school Dickens reading that happens a lot in England.
Fun.
1) It's less a novel and more a series of short stories wrapped up under the Pickwick banner.
2) It was a lot funnier than I expected.
3) Sam Weller is a great character. Spiritual ancestor of Jeeves?
4) But it is packed full of vivid characters.
5) Dickens knows how to write sketches. He'd have been one hell of a comedy writer in 2022.
6) The Fleet scenes are a superb combination of comedy, pathos and satire. You sense Dickens own life experience bubbling under.
7)Pickwick himself, moments of pomposity aside, seems adorably good-hearted.
8) So many story threads. So many characters. But Dickens manages the plate spinning so well that nothing gets smashed.
9) It's very funny. Laugh out loud funny. I say that again as it gets overlooked sometimes I think in the enforced school Dickens reading that happens a lot in England.
Fun.