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    <body><![CDATA[Dickens' first novel shows his comic gift and knack for character development. Really a string of connected episodes rather than a complex novel as he later created, this is still an enjoyable romp.<br/><br/><br/>My generic comment about Charles Dickens:<br/>First of all, although I am a partisa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2352948">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[An absolutely first-rate and splendid novel - Dickens' first - penned when the author was 25 years old. The picaresque romp of Samuel Pickwick and Samuel Weller and Co. is nothing less than the grandest of comedies, a blessing and affirmation of goodwill and fellowship. Replete with tales of the mac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27189013">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very audacious first novel, and a novel which seems to have spun completely out of its author's control. Despite being, along with P.G. Wodehouse, the most gifted humorous writer in the English language (tip of the hat to Vladimir Nabokov), this is Dickens' only comic novel; whereas his later work...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33904413">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've made a less than completely firm resolution to read all of Dickens' novels, including rereading the ones I read as a youngster, when I was too young to appreciate them fully.<br/><br/><em>Pickwick</em> is Dickens' first novel, and the first few chapters do indeed come across as 'prentice work. This is...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2032270">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6850691">
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    <body><![CDATA[A classic that I enjoyed start to finish.  Great to be reminded of why Dickens is universally regarded as being one of the top twenty authors of all time (and that's being conservative).  Yes it's his first novel, yes it was originally published in serial form, so it reads in nice complete thirty pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6850691">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1827931">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for Dickens U. It's a delightful, funny novel (the first by the author). It's very episodic and driven largely the drunken rambles of pseudo-scholar Mr. Pickwick and his companions. In a lot of ways, the text becomes darker (if you find the ending of Candide depressing, you'll find this ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1827931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="12576901">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first book I'm reading for an independent study on Dickens. I don't intend to include all the books I'm covering for school, but I'll put the Dickens on there to encourage anyone who scans my meager shelves here at goodreads to check these novels out. Pickwick Papers is hilarious and for...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12576901">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1148234">
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    <body><![CDATA[One of Dickens' first full out productions. The book has some memorable characters. Chief among them being Samuel Weller, who becomes Mr. Pickwick's valet and is the heart and soul of the tale. The character helped push Dickens' work (which was being serialized, and explains why his works are so len...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1148234">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Almost anything by Dickens is a must read but for people who are not native english speakers the language is sometimes a little hard to get into without perserverance, and then it is great. the underlying social message in many of the books is also sometimes difficult with at least some knwoledge of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10443256">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20404594">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The funniest book ever written!  I was on the floor, I mean really ROFLMAO.  I laughed till I cried, till my diaphragm went into painful spasms.  I couldn't see and I couldn't speak.  Exquisite writing as usual with Dickens.  Sentence composition beyond my wildest dreams.  I did not know comedy coul...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20404594">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I read by Dickens.  I read it because I got tired of wondering what my Dad was laughing so hard at when I was visiting them.  Now I know.  It took me three times to get started on this book.  Going from modern thrillers and action movers to Charles Dickens isn't something I recommend....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80458080">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up, out of desperation for something to read in English, in a book shop in Granada, Spain. It was so tedious and self-conscious and completely unfunny  that I abandoned it somewhere on my travels through Spain - either on a train or in a hotel room, don't remember which.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Pickwick Papers</em> is the very enjoyable, entertaining account of the adventures of the Pickwick Club.  While I liked it very much, it was obvious that it was Dickens's first novel.  It is not as plot driven as his other works, there were not quite as many memorable characters, nor was there as muc...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57788074">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So episodic that it is even debated in some quarters as to whether it can properly be considered a novel at all, Pickwick Papers forms the bridge between the experimental novels of the previous century and the Romantic era, and the more fully formed works of the Victorian age. Completed in the first...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68158918">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first Dickens book I read, as a teenager shortly before Christmas in about 1972. I loved the description near the beginning of a coach clattering along icy roads, with the passengers' breath clouding the windows. It was Dickens's first success, and it has all the energy and optimism of youth. It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77191544">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took a long time, but I finally finished this! Some books are just like that - read them little by little until you wonder if you have ever had anything else on the bedside table. But it actually makes sense for Pickwick - since it was written as a serial in papers originally, it is meant to be d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72876093">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With some dismay I recently learnt that Andrew Brons, who won a seat as an MEP for the BNP, listed The Pickwick Papers as his favourite book. Fortunately you don’t have to be on the far right to enjoy this work and neither could I see anything, beyond a fairly cosy depiction of a bygone era, which...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58040183">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another endeavor which needed my full attention forced me to put this book down for as long as two months somewhere around page 450, so it took me something like three or four months to finish. It took a while to get back up to pace -- the details of a few minor characters had slipped my mind -- but...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55798174">more...</a>]]></body>
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