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Summary: David Copperfield
Review: An unfortunate boy's richs to Rags adventure. The elussive and mean Murdstones set the tone of struggle in David's life. A classic Dickens novel, somewhat hard to comprehend.
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Summary: Best Book Ever!
Review: David Copperfield is one of the greatest novels ever written. It is a wonderful story filled with memorable characters of tremendous depth. Anyone who says that the book is too long or has too many characters lacks the attention span and mental presence necessary to enjoy the work of an author other than Dr. Suess. David Copperfield evokes every emotion imaginable in the reader at some point. Read it!P.S. To all of you high schoolers who are always writing reviews about classic books and giving them single stars and whining about how you were forced to read the books and hated them, STOP. No one wants to read your stupid reviews. Maybe you should try reading something on your on sometime. Then you might actually find reading enjoyable.
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Summary: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Review: A novel about a young man coming into his own. David Copperfields life paraells that of Dickens,they both had to work as children, both made bad marriages to very pretty yet very silly and flighty women, ect,ect. David is also rather like Pip in Great Expectations, both novels are about learning from your mistakes and growing up. David matures enough at the end to realize that he wants a grownup marriage, not a silly childesh one such as he had with Dora when his eyes triumphed over his mind and heart, but now he wants a person who he can grow old with and so he realizes Agnes is the one he should have married all along. The characters are wonderful, probaly the greatest collection of characters from any of Dickens books. I would count David Copperfield as being Dicken's greatest triump, a masterful plot, wonderful characters, great storytelling, make this his most perfect novel. I was relieved to read in the end that Mr.Mell was doing alright in Australia, Steerforths nasty treatment of him made me hate Steerforth for the rest of the novel and not too sorry about his death.
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Summary: One of Dickens' best efforts, and his most personal work
Review: Dickens' books are are not outdated in any way. This becomes all the more clear when reading David Copperfield. It is true that some of the characters in the book are a bit 'artificial'. But this is amply made up for by the unbelievable 'reality' of other characters (Murdstone, Steerforth) and the overall maturity of writing style. Dickens did not treat the topic of his own childhood sufferings lightly, and it shows in the almost unbearably sad first chapters. If you read only one book by Dickens, I would recommend you take this one.
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Summary: Dickens at his best...and occasionally, at his worst.
Review: This book seems to have polarised its many online reviewers. I'm not really surprised. David Copperfield is Dickens at his very best and occasionally (but only occasionally) at his worst. It is a long book; the sentimentality is poured on with a shovel; there are long passages that don't seem to take the plot anywhere. But it has some of Dickens' greatest characters; the plot is powerful and driving; and the first person narrative (unusual for Dickens) makes the story particularly involving. Overall, it deserves to be considered one of Dickens best books. The major low for me was the 'child wife' character - dreadfully unreal and irritating. But the contrast to this was Steerforth, who I rate as perhaps the most interesting and believable character Dickens has ever created. Unlike so many of Dickens' cartoon villains, Steerforth walked the all too human line between good and evil so beautifully that, like David Copperfield, one could hardly help loving him even when we are despising him. Uriah Heep may be the character most reviewers mention, but it is Steerforth that makes David Copperfield my favourite Dickens novel.
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Summary: Mediocre
Review: I read A Tale of Two Cities and loved it; thought it breathed the nineteenth century into my life, but this... David Copperfield. I was not impressed. Some parts were so captivating and involving - so earnest and funny or devastating, but this was not consistent enough. I blame it on the gratuitous characters (you don't NEED that many!) and on his writing style which sometimes dragged on; in fact, quite often, it dragged on. I'll read some of his others, but if they're anything LIKE this, they'll be out of the window. I won't make the mistake i made here and actually read all the way through it.
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Summary: "Out of all my children, David Copperfield was my favorite"
Review: Similar to Dickens's own life, David Copperfield struggles through the first half of his childhood -- those unhappy, derogatory, and shameful years -- without privilege, respect, and purpose. As he fights free to embrace the benevolence of his great aunt, " Trotwood" is born and begins his happier "schoolboy days" at Canterbury. Eight hundred pages is just adequate as outsiders observe David Copperfield matures within and transforms from the heart. The major theme of the novel being the disciplince of heart, Dickens gives an insightful look of the frolicking nature of child-love for Dora as a "young bud blossomed a day too soon". Through confrontations with the unbendable limitations of reality, Copperfield comes to shoulder the responsibility of a disciplined heart enthralled to another. Certainlly a rich source of literature's most memorable characters, David Copperfield gives us perfidious Uriah Heep, gallant Steerforth, egotistic Mr. Murdstone, thriftless Mr. Micawber ...David Copperfield rises to become the man Dickens himself was--"the hero of his own life".
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Summary: One of Charles Dickens Best!
Review: This is one of my most favorite books of all time. The characters are just wonderful and I can't believe that people think this book is "dull" or "tedious". It is one of Charles Dickens best and even better than Great Expectations and thats saying a lot!
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Summary: Tedious!
Review: Here's the deal: you have to wade through many, many pages to find a good scene that is involving and then the book dies again. fast forward to another 20-30 pages to find something else interesting. Lots of detail and description-more than I ever needed. Call me a vulgarian, but the damn movies of this book condensed it into something endurable and mildly entertaining. The novel is seemingly endless-so much so that I wondered why I was suspending my much more interesting life with all of its mundaneness to read David. In the end, David won but Dickens will not win again. An author needs to write more engagingly in order to expect readers to stop and put their life on hold and pick up a book.
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Summary: BORING!!
Review: I was forced to read this book my freshman year of high school. It is so boring. How can people say Charles Dickens was a great writer. He was an old ugly misogynist. He makes most of the female characters mean or dumb and weak. Also this book and Great Expectations are basically the same.
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