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by bluefishie , Jul 30 '04
Pros: wonderful writing, funny and sad Cons: LONG and sometimes long winded
I call David Copperfield Dickens's Epic because comprising of a whopping 821 pages in The Modern Library's paperback edition (that's 64 chapters total), without the notes and commentary to guide you through the novel, it takes a while to ...
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by mpanderson , Mar 09 '01
Pros: Unforgettable reading and characters Cons: Slow at times
This piece at first appears quite ominous due to its enormous size. Surprisingly enough it moves mush faster than you might at first expect. David Copperfield serves as a type of autobiography of Charles Dickens. Keeping this in mind is extremely...
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by Bryony , Oct 10 '00
Pros: Dickens' great "David" Cons: Purple prose
This first appeared as a response to a review of "David Copperfield," but when I submitted the review, the system said that since it was a long reply, perhaps I should redo it as an opinion. So I am.
One reviewer called this...
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by teleguy000 , Mar 03 '00
Pros: Excellent characters Cons: Too many characters that are never heard from again and too much of the usual Dickens babbling
This book is, as the title says, the only work by Dickens I have ever been able to stomach, and one of the few I have had the determination to sit through. I have heard many compare this book to Great Expectations, and while I admit that the two have...
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by Brianbb18 , Mar 21 '00
Pros: None Cons: long boring novel
I have read many major classics so don’t push me off as an idiot. I had to read this book for a class but if I hadn’t I wouldn’t have made it to page 10. But I had to push through this enormously long book. If you still want to know it is about a...
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by inago_darth , May 02 '02
Pros: A great story with interesting writing style Cons: Too long too boring!
Now, I am not very old, just 14 and it is almost 6 months since i finished the book, but personally I don’t like it.
The book David Copperfield is a story of a young man's life. It is how he overcame all the struggle and strife of his life to...
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by Xendier , Oct 14 '00
Pros: Memorable characters, eternal story Cons: Appears out of date at first
Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is one of the great classics of English literature, a book which a generation ago I would have assumed all educated speakers of English had read. Now, however, there are so many books to read, that even a great classic...
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by cmreinhold , Oct 04 '00
Pros: interesting time period; most people have read it/heard of it Cons: some expressions are not known by kids today
I have been reading to my four children since before there were four children! In fact, we just finished David Copperfield last night. I had always wanted to read the book myself, since it is considered a children's classic.
It was fast...
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by cj244 , Nov 19 '00
Pros: Great Plot Cons: Way too long and gets boring
Frankly this isn't the most exciting book in the world to read, but the story is very intriguing. Basically this story is about David Copperfield and his life. It begins with his birth to his life with wife and children. The book would be much more...
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by Lamba , Oct 25 '00
Pros: good reading. engrossing picture of the times Cons: style is too descriptive
David Coperfield is an excellent treatise on the socio- economic conditions that prevailed in the victorian ers. Charles Dickens dissects the prudery, the callousness and the gloss that was evident in that age.
Dickens uses a very descriptive...
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by shyguy , Nov 05 '00
Pros: great writing style which brings all the characters to life in print Cons: very elaborately descriptive at times
There is nothing new to speak about Dickens.He is one of the most prolific writers that England ever had.But what makes David coperfield a treat in reading is the fact that this book is partly autobiographical in nature.
Look through the eyes...
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by cvonmetternich , Aug 08 '03
Pros: Absorbing story, likeable characters Cons: None
David Copperfield is a beautifully-written first person account of Copperfield's trials, travails, a ...
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