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David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

Start date: October 1, 2019

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Aug 13, 2021 Laura (Reading is a Doing Word) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics-trad-and-modern, 2021-read, dickens

This is the 8th book in my #ayearofdickens2021 challenge.

I felt like this was the first of the “great” Dickens novels - the ones people love and rave about - and therefore I had high expectations going in, perhaps too high? For folk who laud David Copperfield as their favourite book, or favourite Dickens, I’d be interested in how many other Dickens novels they’d read on average.

For me, I really enjoyed it, but I didn’t LOVE it..and this perhaps was due to mismanaged expectations. As always I ha ...more

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Dec 19, 2019 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorite-author-dickens-charles, read-classics, challenge-bingo-2019, challenge-back-to-the-classics-2019

I have read many wonderful books - among my favorites The Count of Monte Cristo (old Classic) and A Gentleman in Moscow (a future Classic) - but I do believe that David Copperfield would be my book of choice if I were ever stranded on a desert island. Charles Dickens said this was his favorite novel, and the love he poured into writing it shines throughout it.

There is so much diversity and depth, tragedy and comedy, villains and saints throughout the pages of this book. As I was nearing the end, ...more

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Jun 01, 2017 Grace rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: mccrum-s-100-greatest, 2017-reads

#15 in my chronological reading of the McCrum list..... Superb. So far perhaps my favorite on the list. Now I want to start reading every Dickens book there is.... so many books....
An explanation of my star rating.
5= Truly cream of the crop. Amazing. In a wondrous realm of their own
4= Special and well written. Truly a good/maybe great book, but not a rare 5 star wonder.
3= Moments of brilliance, a pleasure to read. I'd recommend it.
2= An average book... since I'm not usually reading mass market ...more

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