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    <body><![CDATA[Lovely to spend time in the world of David Copperfield, Charles Dickens' most autobiographical, and favorite, book. I picked it up again because I remembered the stories of David's childhood -- the stepfather, the boarding school, the bottling factory, madcap days with the Micawber family, his fligh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40530394">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A story that includes an orphan boy, rags to riches, trials, tribulations, and adventures: it seems to scream standardization and uniformity. Do we really need to hear about another destitute orphan who, through self-discovery and hardships, creates a better life for himself?  I say we do, should, o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9519780">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading Dicken's Tale of Two Cities, I was left wanting to read more of him. I came across David Copperfield in my university library. At first I was a little intimidated, over 900 pages, but enjoyed it deeply. David Copperfield is known as Dicken's 'favorite child' and I can see why. Dickens ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23300249">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[People enjoy knocking Dickens, but fuck them: When someone complained that Dickens wrote what the people wanted, Lionel Trilling (I believe) responded: &quot;Dickens didn't write what the people wanted. Dickens <em>wanted</em> what the people wanted.&quot; <br/><br/>I love the books of his that I've read, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4065172">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished reading David Copperfield on the Kindle a few days ago.<br/><br/>I’m not an English major, and so I’m not going to pretend to be one. I’m not going to discuss what themes the book touches on, what category it fits in, or generally dissect it to the point where it’s more monotono...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49796548">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My overwhelming impression of this book is that it is Dickens at his most Dickensian. I don't mean that it is the best thing he ever wrote, the most literary or influential. (I have yet to read &quot;Great Expectations&quot; and have expectations it will be truly great.) However, I think in &quot;Da...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46187729">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I first got the idea about reading Dickens aloud from watching the movie <em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18405.Gone_With_The_Wind" title="Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell">Gone With the Wind</a></em>.  (They were even reading this book!)  To me as a young bookgirl (at the time) it seemed like such fun, I kept wishing we didn't have TV at home and we'd sit around and read aloud in the evenings.  It didn't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24249203">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this book up in preparation for a 36 hour bus ride, and while I don't regret it, I have reservations about recommending it to anyone not in similar circumstances.  Dicken's writing is excellent, of course, and sometimes remarkable.  The story picks up and carries on quite well, perhaps a li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9121001">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Dickens!(in a really long time, I've also read A Tale of Two Cities, Twice!)  Slow start, but ended up being one I gave up sleep to read! Loved it!  Loved the characters, the setting, all the different conflicts.  Was appalled by David's first marriage, even wished for her death, and my wis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57505845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Roger Ebert once said that if nothing has happened by the end of the first reel, nothing is going to happen. I had to pause about 40% of the way through to pursue my thesis, but after David grows into a young man, the travails of his youth are behind him. At the point where I stopped, partly out of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11619425">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I consider Charles Dickens to be the greatest writer in the history of the English language. While all his books are classics, I think that &quot;David Copperfield&quot; is probably his finest work. A massive volume (even for Dickens, whose books were always huge), it is basically the story of his l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7518421">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Beginning in 1854 up through to his death in 1870, Charles Dickens abridged and adapted many of his more popular works and performed them as staged readings. This version, each page illustrated with lovely watercolor paintings, is a beautiful example of one of these adaptations.<p>  Because it is quite seriously abridged, the story concentrates primarily on the extended family of Mr. Peggotty: his orphaned nephew, Ham; his adopted niece, Little Emily; and Mrs. Gummidge, self-described as &quot;a lone lorn creetur and everythink went contrairy with her.&quot; When Little Emily runs away with Copperfield's former schoolmate, leaving Mr. Peggotty completely brokenhearted, the whole family is thrown into turmoil. But Dickens weaves some comic relief throughout the story with the introduction of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber, and David's love for his pretty, silly &quot;child-wife,&quot; Dora.  Dark nights, mysterious locations, and the final destructive storm provide classic Dickensian drama. Although this is not <em>David Copperfield</em> in its entirety, it is a great introduction to the world and the language of Charles Dickens.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very long but enjoyable read, with all the colorful characters, predictable plot twists, and extreme Victorian sentimentality I've come to expect from Dickens. <br/><br/>Enjoyed for what it is, an adventure and simplistic morality tale, <em>David Copperfield</em> is a rolicking good time. I enjoy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4109431">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My second Dickens book and fifth Dickens &quot;story&quot; that I paid attention to.  Obviously we all start with watching A Christmas Carol as kids.  The BBC production of Bleak House was what really got me into Dickens.  I fell in love with the greasy, dark, humor of the underworld contrasted with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80434329">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[While not exactly a light, summer read, and a book that takes a bit of time to get into its own unique rhythm, I came to like this book and am glad that I read it.  I was only familiar with Dickens tales from the movie versions (think...Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol), so it took a few hundred p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67723673">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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