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A review by kalliegrace
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
emotional
funny
reflective
sad
slow-paced
5.0
I was pushed to finally read this when I heard it was the inspiration and blueprint for Demon Copperhead, which is winning awards left and right. I have enjoyed Dickens in the past, but I am afraid I've slept on him for years after each book I've read and thoroughly enjoyed.
This book, The Perks of Being a Wallflo....I mean, A Series of Unfortunate Even...I mean...David Copperfield, follows David from birth to middle age, where awful things keep happening to him and he seems unfazed and unaffected by all of it. He is horribly mistreated as a child, but he never has to wrestle with that mistreatment as his character is forged. This passiveness bothered me for a while, but now that I've finished it, I can appreciate it for what it is - retelling of events in his life, with no exposition. As plotless as this is, Dickens is such a fantastic writer that all characters become endeared to the reader and leaving them behind at the end is bittersweet. Here's my reminder to pick up another Dickens before a decade has gone by.
This book, The Perks of Being a Wallflo....I mean, A Series of Unfortunate Even...I mean...David Copperfield, follows David from birth to middle age, where awful things keep happening to him and he seems unfazed and unaffected by all of it. He is horribly mistreated as a child, but he never has to wrestle with that mistreatment as his character is forged. This passiveness bothered me for a while, but now that I've finished it, I can appreciate it for what it is - retelling of events in his life, with no exposition. As plotless as this is, Dickens is such a fantastic writer that all characters become endeared to the reader and leaving them behind at the end is bittersweet. Here's my reminder to pick up another Dickens before a decade has gone by.