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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jul 30, 2004
Pros: wonderful writing, funny and sad
Cons: LONG and sometimes long winded
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 8, 2003
Pros: Absorbing story, likeable characters
Cons: None
Summary: David Copperfield is a beautifully-written first person account of Copperfield's trials, travails, a ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 2, 2002
Pros: A great story with interesting writing style
Cons: Too long too boring!
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 9, 2001
Pros: Unforgettable reading and characters
Cons: Slow at times
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 19, 2000
Pros: Great Plot
Cons: Way too long and gets boring
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 5, 2000
Pros: great writing style which brings all the characters to life in print
Cons: very elaborately descriptive at times
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 25, 2000
Pros: good reading. engrossing picture of the times
Cons: style is too descriptive
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 14, 2000
Pros: Memorable characters, eternal story
Cons: Appears out of date at first
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 10, 2000
Pros: Dickens' great "David"
Cons: Purple prose
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 4, 2000
Pros: interesting time period; most people have read it/heard of it
Cons: some expressions are not known by kids today
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 21, 2000
Pros: None
Cons: long boring novel
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2000
Pros: Excellent characters
Cons: Too many characters that are never heard from again and too much of the usual Dickens babbling
Summary: 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 ... read more
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