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... > 1. 1984 - George Orwell 2. 3. 4. 5. Old Stuff That a Bunch of Lists Say I Should Read 1. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 2. 3. 4. 5. I'll Read It Because I Want To, Not Because You Tell Me To 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

... of Two Cities is not one of the books you read, I would recommend it. Certainly different from Great Expectations or David Copperfield. It would be an interesting juxtaposition with Les Misérables, too.

Just finished David Copperfield by Dickens. It was a very enjoyable read. Kept my Christmas entertained. # 76 I do hope you are alright and dance on.

... 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Possible Choices: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Life of Pi by Yann Martel Mansfield Park by Jane Austen One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Shipping ...

... and entertining. What are the possibilities? I think Martel may have a future in writing if he keeps after it. Started David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I really enjoy Dickens.

... With Me by Shirley Jackson Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card D David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Death in Venice by Thomas Mann The Broken Window by Jeffrey Deaver The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Mo ...

I'm seconding Buddenbrooks and David Copperfield. I just finished I, Claudius, though, but if that one wins out I'll be sure to join in on the conversation.

The Heart of Christianity - I'm exploring liberal Christianity, go figure. David Copperfield - via DailyLit The Writer's Mentor - 888 Challenge (Oh shut up!) Me Talk Pretty One Day - 2007 TBR List (SHUSH, I said!) Nothing really fantastic or awful.

I'll nominate David Copperfield by Dickens and Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann.

... to flow for me as a reader. >67 Bonnie, you're absolutely right about not minding the length when I'm loving the book. David Copperfield was like that, and for much of The Woman in White, I was making some comparisons because they're both very long and long-winded at times, and I would ...

'Scuse multiple deleted posts: I think my internet connection is sneezing almost as much as I am.

... but actually had happy endings. Still not a major Dickens fan, but grudgingly softening - and even picked up a copy of David Copperfield this week... 4/5.

... but actually had happy endings. Still not a major Dickens fan, but grudgingly softening - and even picked up a copy of David Copperfield this week... 4/5.

... Fave Dickens so far ... The Pickwick Papers? I recall it as funny and suspenseful, which is true of the second part of David Copperfield also (though I was hoping Lil Emily would head off to a bordello in outstate Nevada after a while!). The Old Curiosity Shop has problems plot-wise, but ...

All the various (minor) characters and sub-plots make David Copperfield such an interesting book - the Micawbers, Dora, Agnes, Uriah Heep, Little Em'ly, etc., etc.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE David Copperfield!!!!!!!!

Elizabeth, why should David Copperfield feel like a cliche? It's wonderful! I don't find Tale of Two Cities to be typical Dickens, so it's somewhat low on my most-loved list. I do, however, read and reread Little Dorrit with great pleasure. Nickelini, I think you have read the best and ...

Tale of Two Cities and the bit cliched answer: David Copperfield. I plan to read Little Dorrit soon because I loved the Masterpiece Theater. Little Dorrit had been on my list to read for some time before the adaptation. You know how some books sit on your mental list for some time. Little Dorr ...

... it). Armadale by Wilkie Collins – I liked it, but Flo Gibson is rather an “acquired taste” as a narrator! David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – Davidson (Case) does a great job, though the story gets off to a rather slow start! The Adventure of English by Melvyn Br ...

3. Adult Books to Read: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Mark Haddon David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon You Suck by Christopher Moore Still Alice by Lisa Genova

... Charles Dickens. The date(s) of the monthly serialisation or the first appearance in bound form as a novel? For example David Copperfield was first published as a serial from 1849-50, the novel was 1850. This practice continued with SF magazines, and although less prevalent some SF ...

... Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - Nicolas Nickleby Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol and Two other Stories

... a great job narrating, but the plot is s-l-o-w as of the end of the first part (of five)! However, I'd thought so about David Copperfield, too, and that one was great (also read by Case) once it got going.

Which of these is not "speculative fiction" The Odyssey Don Quixote Shamela David Copperfield Middlemarch Emma The woman in White Portrait of a Lady The Sea Wolf I could go on. Okay, which one is not speculative fiction?

Okay, as a newbie... Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East Atlas Shrugged Leaves of Grass David Copperfield Last of the Mohicans Candide Oscar Wilde The Holy Sinner The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Les amitiés particulières

... Infinite Jest 03. In Search of Lost Time 04. The Recognitions 05. War and Peace 06. Crime and Punishment 07. David Copperfield 08. The Royal Family 09. Women and Men 10. The Master and Margarita Being called to dinner; top 10 Genre is up next.

... Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (twice) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen (own but have not read) 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen (own but have not ...

... the Gods and Ah, But the Land is Beautiful or Cry, the Beloved Country, and The Dragon's Village for Category 3, and David Copperfield for Category 7. I read all of them except the first Alan Paton book for my challenge this year and enjoyed them all.

... - read in one afternoon/evening Labor Day by Joyce Maynard - I fell in love with the cover, and then with the story David Copperfield by Charles Dickens - a classic that starts off slowly but is chock-full of memorable characters

I just finished David Copperfield and The Hunger Games, both for a book club. Now I'm reading Inspector French's Greatest Case and Crossing to Safety.

Review for David Copperfield Dickens said that David Copperfield was like his favorite child. As I read this, I couldn't help but feel that it was apparent that his favorite sure had it rough. David is a posthumous child - born after his father's death. That's a pretty fair preparation for ...

Another happy today - book club! Yay! We read David Copperfield and I was happy to find that I really liked it. Next month we're doing Tom Sawyer, to go along with our town's Big Read.

I finished my books for my 2 book clubs - The Hunger Games for last night and David Copperfield for tonight. Nothing like a looming deadline to make you start reading! Now I can relax for a bit. Next month we're doing I Capture the Castle and Falling Leaves.

... a sentimental copy of A Room of One's Own. Can't bear to read her. I've never tried Dickens after slogging through David Copperfield in 8th grade. I have his entire collected works, just sitting there waiting for me to be inspired. I read to within 50 pages of the end of Crime and P ...

... I'm hoping that I can also get a few things done in there too, but I'm not too positive about that. Also more reading on David Copperfield.

@97 :: Cool! I really liked David Copperfield when I read it...hope you enjoy it as well!

... end I just wanted to yell, “Grow a spine!” If you’re a diehard Dickens fan, I would recommend this book, but I prefer David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend.

... of Ashes by Cassandra Clare 99. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare 100. Shakespeare's Spy by Gary Blackwood 101. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 102. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 103. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard 104. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 105. Singled Out by ...

I just treated myself to a visit to the used book store. I traded in Don Quixote and came away with: David Copperfield Dead Souls Inspector French's Greatest Case Tenant for the Tomb Death Casts a Long Shadow The Black Seraphim The Long Journey Home - Michael Gilbert Livin ...

I actually love David Copperfield because as a kid I had an abridged version I read over and over again. I read the original 15 years later and still knew all the characters names. It was wonderful to have all the holes filled in so to speak. I also second A Tale of Two Cities. I recently read ...

I haven't started David Copperfield yet. I hope I like it - the last Dickens I tried to read was Nicholas Nickleby, and I didn't finish it. I used to really enjoy his books, so we'll see what happens.

Book Club 1. The Hunger Games **** 2. David Copperfield **** 3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 4. I Capture the Castle *** 5. Falling Leaves 6. The Memory Keeper's Daughter 7. The Girl Who Could Fly

101. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens David Copperfield is the narrator of his life from boyhood through young adulthood, an account that in some ways mirrors Dickens' own life. It begins with David's own birth and his Aunt Betsey Trotwood's disappointment that he was not a girl. David's ...

80. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Category: Recommendations David Copperfield is the narrator of his life from boyhood through young adulthood, an account that in some ways mirrors Dickens' own life. It begins with David's own birth and his Aunt Betsey Trotwood's disappointment that ...

I finished David Copperfield today after over two months of reading (happy dance!). I really enjoyed it, and the characters - the Micawbers, Uriah Heep, Aunt Betsey Trotwood - were fabulous, but it was one looooong book! Now I'm reading Rebecca and listening to Born to Run, and ...

... ers Oliver Twist Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times

... I was a little disappointed, especially since I liked The Shakespeare Stealer so much. 3.5 stars. Currently reading - David Copperfield, Rebecca and You Just Don't Understand Currently listening to - Born to Run

I've read Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Oliver Twist is a fairly easy and entertaining read, so that would be my first choice. A Christmas Carol is a classic and a very quick read, but you already read it :). Great Expectations was ...

... will vote for any of the popular stories involving empty-headed females or cute kids, such as The Old Curiosity Shop and David Copperfield. Supposedly, Dickens wanted to call Barnaby Rudge “Gabriel Varden”. The book is far more readable if you do not assume Barnaby is the main ...

I just started City of Bones for some lighter reading while working on David Copperfield, and enjoying both.

... and read Fruits Basket Volume 23 on Saturday. I'm somewhat sad to see that series end. Now I'm (still) working on David Copperfield and On the Art of Reading. When I finish the latter, I think I'll start Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen.

I'm reading David Copperfield for my recommendations category, The Kingdom on the Waves for Awards/Honors, and On the Art of Reading for the 999 x 2 category of nonfiction. These might take me awhile....

I'm slowing making my way through David Copperfield (though very much enjoying it), and reading Kingdom on the Waves by M.T. Anderson. After finishing Q's Legacy last week, I decided to try one of Q's books of published lectures, so I'm slowly reading On the Art of Reading as well.

#17 Rob, I think this picture is often associated with David Copperfield - the section in which Little Emily runs away with Steerforth so she can "be a lady." I have also heard it mentioned in conjunction with aluvalibri ;-)

... some sections are tedious, but some I found quite compelling ("Beren and Luthien," "Akallabeth"). I couldn't get behind David Copperfield, however. There's so much Dickens that's good -- why did my high school English teacher have to inflict that one on us? #48 -- I had two friends in ...

... (I read Bleak House and thought the 2005 adaptation was infinitely superior, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend and David Copperfield) but I keep trying nonetheless, just in case.

... would like his writing but don't know where to start. I'm also still reading A Short History of Nearly Everything and David Copperfield. For a lighter read, I started Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which is hilarious so far.

... (I read Bleak House and thought the 2005 adaptation was infinitely superior, Little Dorrit, Our Mutual Friend and David Copperfield) but I keep trying nonetheless, just in case.

... I recommend Dickens. #127 - I don't understand the question. Am I to name three Dickens novels that are not rubbish (David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Our Mutual Friend) or general fiction (The Sea Wolf, Middlemarch, The Cabinet of Curiosities)?

... love-hate relationship with him. I loved A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. I hated Oliver Twist. So far David Copperfield is slow going plot-wise, but I am enjoying it for the characters (especially his Aunt Trotwood, she's hysterical).

... bell7 - I've read and listened to the Bryson book and would consider reading it again - I love the way he writes. I read David Copperfield in high school and so far that's the only Dickens I have ever been able to bring myself to read (except A Christmas Carol). Good luck.

I'm plugging away at David Copperfield, and also reading The Last Light of the Sun by Guy Gavriel Kay and A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson. All are enjoyable, but I'm not sure what possessed me to read three 500+ page books at once...

that's a great link urquhart, thanks. I'd just decided to read david copperfield as my next dickens book too, so this should help me to keep up when I'm at work now too :)

... terrible for being suckered in by Marshall Cavendish I'm ashamed to say ...) and I think my next read will definitely be david copperfield (although I am a big fan of catch 22 and I am intrigued by qeneq's comments in post 13. that fans of that book will like pickwick papers ..!) I've ...

>11 not sure if this would apply, but when I have separated out abridgments I have designated, for example: "TITLE abridged - Oxford Bookworm" Couldn't popups be designated the same way? Keeps the original title but also designates how different books with the same name are different. Just a ...

... days, I read a few quick books - The Woman Who Rides Like a Man, The Pearl, and Hatter M. I'm still working on David Copperfield. It will be some time before I'm finished (only about 1/3 of the way in), but I'm enjoying the story so far and the characters are fabulous. I've ...

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 1. Where did I get it? A library (?) booksale 2. Why did I pick this book up NOW? I've meant to get to it for some time but kept putting it off 'cause it was so long...I finally picked it up because I needed to fill my Recommendations category for the 999 ...

David Copperfield seems to be one that a lot of Dickens readers recommend. I've read a fair amount of Dickens, and it's in my top 3.

I finished both Heroes of the Valley and Girl, Interrupted today. Now back to David Copperfield until another library book bumps it...

... number of plots and characters are too confusing for beginners! I would recommend The Pickwick Papers for comedy, or David Copperfield - it was Dickens' midpoint novel and has the good humor of his early works but is more interesting and meaningful.

... so this means you either like them or you really don't. I was stunned to find out how unpopular Agnes Wickfield from David Copperfield is. I found her to be a rather unfortunate person who has to bear up because she has no other choice or everything around her will fall apart. David, ...

... which is a good choice. Also Little Women and probably Peter Pan, and even The Importance of Being Ernest. David Copperfield is about half-happy and half-difficult, but there's humor throughout and everything works out well in the end, and The Pickwick Papers is very funny. :) ...

... shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. David Copperfield never disappoints!

... Larson because I don't like the typeface... Mostly I seem to be shying away from the really big books on my TBR - David Copperfield, War and Peace, The Brothers Karamazov - I'm finding them more daunting as I get older... Happy reading!! Kathy

I recently finished The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. Now I'm reading Everything That Rises Must Converge and David Copperfield.

... being able to see her emotional and psychological downward spiral. Highly recommended. 5 stars. Currently reading - David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Currently listening to - A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

... she's in. "Enjoy" is the wrong word for this book, but I literally couldn't put it down. I'm slowly but surely reading David Copperfield, and listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything (unfortunately not read by the author, Bill Bryson).

Hi, BJ! Rapunzel's Revenge was a fun read, a nice light break from the longer, more difficult David Copperfield that I started a few days ago. I liked reading your impressions of Persepolis on your thread. I think there are a few reasons that I liked the second one better, the first ...

... from the library. I also read The Little Prince. Now, I'll probably start on Wintergirls and read that alongside David Copperfield.

I finished People of the Book today, which I enjoyed, and have now begun David Copperfield. I'm still pondering what other book I should read when I need a break from the 900-page tome...

... of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night." David Copperfield "Fear is the mind-killer." Dune "Such a lot of guns around town, and so few brains." The Big Sleep One problem I have is knowing whether some ...

... some other subject that caught his fancy. For example, in pondering the merits of Dickens, he writes: "Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have ...

I finished reading David Copperfield last night. Today I'll be starting My Wars are Laid Away in Books.

Sorry, wrong week.

A couple of books to add to my list: Cait Murphy's Crazy '08 and Dickens' David Copperfield. Crazy '08 is about the baseball season of 1908. It got a good review in the NY Times a few years back and I hadn't forgot it. Perhaps because I'm in baseball crazy Japan, or I'm a baseball fan ...

Soldiering on through David Copperfield, I, Claudius and just now flipping through The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood, The Enchanted Castle, and A Study in Scarlet. OH. And How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom, which is turning out to be rather good, if not a bit overpowering.

War and Peace David Copperfield Forsyte Saga The Idiot Far Pavillions Gone with the Wind The Little Prince The Harry Potter series -only if read by Jim Dale

I started my first reading of David Copperfield yesterday (and despite the day job I got through about 150 pages of it before I went to sleep).

... to get assigned it in school, and my reading since then has a serious leaning towards non-fiction. That said, David Copperfield has the advantages of being pretty darn classic (which is where my fiction reading leans), and one of Dickens's less doorstop-y novels.

Aww.. I love David Copperfield, AnnaClaire. Is it your first time, or a re-read?

... yesterday afternoon (fortunately I had my knitting with me to work on during the commute home). Today I'm starting David Copperfield.

... you for reading :) #291 Eliza - Be warned - It will certainly add titles to the TBR list. He even made me want to read David Copperfield, and I've never wanted to read David Copperfield! And, since we're throwing thank yous around (or not!), let me take the opportunity of thanking ...

... and occasionally end with an excerpt from one of the books that Hornby was particularly fond of, such as Dickens' classic David Copperfield, Tony Hoagland's modern poem Impossible Dream from his book What Narcissism Means to Me, and The Bicycle from the graphic novel Persepolis ...

... will have the whole thing anyway. For Dickens, there will be lots of people who don't have the Complete Works but do have David Copperfield or Pickwick Papers or whatever - it might well be interesting for you to see your connections with those people. On the other hand, I catalogued my ...

... Krakatoa. After these, I think I'll try reading a couple of books off my bookshelves instead of library books, maybe David Copperfield or Till We Have Faces.

... is at such a premium in Tokyo that it's really challenging to read a big book on the train. So I'm reading Dickens' David Copperfield which I've never read, but am finding great joy and pleasure in doing so, and I feel like it brings back memories of reading some of the classics as a ...

... Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 3 ...

... nomination of The Last Chronicle and add Phineas Finn and He Knew He Was Right. And I do like Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield and Bleak House.

... it was. I received my three books which are: The Shack by Wm. Paul Young Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Now I just need to spend my gift cards at B&N then I will be finished for awhile with buying books. (yeah right.)

... enjoyed what I've read, but, having read 2 in the last 6 months, I'll wait at least a year before the next one (probably David Copperfield). I didn't comment properly on Nicholas Nickleby above, so I shall do it now, starting with the statement that it was on the borderline for me. There ...

... Shandy Life A User's Manual The Goldbug Variations Buddenbrooks Underworld Middlemarch Vanity Fair David Copperfield Bleak House I have The Sleepwalkers home from the library now, and The Man Without Qualities is on my shelf.

... Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 41 Animal Farm - George Orwell 42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 49 L ...

... - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch ...

... Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe 3 ...

... Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame *31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy (MM is currently reading--slowly!) 32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens *33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis *34 Emma - Jane Austen *35 Persuasion - Jane Austen *36 The Lion, The Witch and The W ...

... what age equates with 7th grade, but it still sounds way too young for Dickens. The one I had to read at school age was David Copperfield and I was too young for that too. I'm really interested to hear Nickelini also read The Return of the Soldier as I read that last month (though for ...

... adaptation of Dickens' "Little Dorrit". They have already aired a new version of "Oliver Twist" and an encore of "David Copperfield" (with Daniel Radcliff, which I've taped but not yet watched. (Like most Masterpiece Classic presentations, they were produced in England.)

... just not drawing me in as yet. I'm also reading Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston at the same time. I watched David Copperfield on Masterpiece Theatre last night and I'm yearning to read the book again.

I love to read Dickens aloud! The characters are just so funny and quirky. I especially felt this with Copperfield. Mr. Barkis and Mrs. Maccawber! They are a riot. I love to act (in high school mostly), and that would be such a fun play to be in. I think I did do a cut from it for speech: Ba ...

... regarding Dickens, since we seem to have some of the same tastes in books: The Pickwick Papers was the first I ever bought. David Copperfield the first I ever read (classics book group again). At the bookstore we have a customer who counts Bleak House as one of his two favorite books in the ...

... read the book. The list that I have that I've heard about are The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Oliver Twist,David Copperfield, Old Curiousity Shop, and Bleak House. I guess the reason why I thought of him was my interest in the era and my little Dickens village that I set up ...

My favorite Charles Dickens is Bleak House although both Great Expectations and David Copperfield rate high marks from me also. I also think A Tale of Two Cities should be read--I enjoyed it but not as much as the other three. These four seem to me to be the "essential" Dickens (I'm ...

... Martin was a Penguin Classics paperback and I recognised the art on the cover. I checked my library and discovered it was David Copperfield he was reading.

For a long time it was David Copperfield, but a few years ago it changed to Our Mutual Friend. Concerning Great Expectations, my problem with it is Miss Havisham - she's really creepy and she totally freaked me out when I had to read it in high school.

My favorite Dickens is definitely David Copperfield! That's a rainy day book for me to curl up in bed with. I haven't read all of Dickens, though. Hopefully I'll be reading Bleak House this summer for the group read, yes?

4pawz (and anyone else who wants to join in)--What's your favorite Dickens? Mine is a tie between Little Dorrit and David Copperfield.

... of disappointment one is likely to experience from his other books. I think the only one that comes close in quality is David Copperfield. That said, Charles Dickens, regardless of which work you read, will be hours well spent. Not many people writing in English are as accomplished, even ...

Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings is the worst. I am never ready to leave that world when I run out of words to read. David Copperfield always leaves me disoriented, too. The latest book that left me with that stunned, whoa, feeling was Haskell's Two Years In the Klondike.

... Zoe Heller George and Sam Charlotte Moore Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Gods Behaving Badly Amateur Marriage David Copperfield I originally bought it because I had grandiose ideas of being a book reviewer but I wanted to write it funny rather than balanced. I thought he might ...

David Copperfield is a favorite of mine. I was devouring Dickens books quite a few years ago and enjoyed everything I read. Bleak House is on my TBR list for 2009 and I'm looking forward to this step back in time.

... le volume de certains volumes qui me cause quelque réticence. Cela dit j'ai fait une tentative il y a un ou deux ans avec David Copperfield et j'ai bien aimé - ce n'est donc pas un cas désespéré... Pour Jane Austen au contraire j'ai été très vite enthousiasmé ; c'est tout ce qu'il y ...

... course many, many years ago. Still have to read Hard Times, Barnaby Rudge and Martin Chuzzlewit. Want to reread David Copperfield. A Thousand Splendid Suns--I'm always suspicious of highly hyped books, and I did not particularly like this book. It didn't feel real to me. The Was ...

... for her radio show, "Kate's Klassics". This book discusses ten big ones: Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky, David Copperfield by Dickens, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Odyssey by Homer, The old Testament by "G ...

... of his. PBS is going to be starting dramatizations of 4 of his novels starting in mid-February, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Little Dorrit and The Old Curiosity Shop. Some pretty good actors, Derek Jacobi, Maggie Smith, Ian McKellen, Bob Hoskins, even a young Daniel Radclif ...

I also want to read more Dickens. I adored David Copperfield and A Tale of Two Cities, but don't know what to pick up next.

I always liked Micawber's advice to David Copperfield: "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery"

... there are lots of old things we don't know." Maybe it's time to dust off an old classic, like Faulkner's The Reivers or David Copperfield. No, I'm just kidding. Try Generation Dead by Daniel Waters. It's about zombies, but not really. It's about prejudice and bigotry and high school ...

... Mutual Friend. Of the others--off the top of my head--these are ones I can highly recommend: Great Expectations David Copperfield (but not back-to-back because they are rather similar--young boy coming of age in trying circumstances getting help from unexpected sources. But they are ...

My all time fave is David Copperfield. Mr. Micawber is a great comic creation. It is just full of good things and Dickens stuck to the plot in this one. It isn't quite a wooly baggy monster like his other books! - TT

I'll just butt in to say my favorite Dickens is David Copperfield. I read Bleak House this year, and it's excellent as well.

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... a pdf of the schedule Oliver Twist 2 Parts (Feb. 15 and Feb. 22) David Copperfield 2 Parts (Mar. 15 and Mar. 22) Little Dorrit 5 Parts (Mar. 29, Apr. 5, Apr. 12, Apr. 19, Apr. 26) The Old Curiosity Shop 1 Part (May 3)

I'm not on top of the threads here, so I hope I'm not repeating someone else, but I just found out today that Masterpiece on PBS is showing four Dickens adaptions over the next few months. Mark your calendars: Edited because LT mysteriously chopped off the bottom half of my message! Very ...

David Copperfield and Great Expectations are two of my favorites too. I'll have to check the main library branch next time I'm there and see if they have a copy of the Nicholas Nickleby film.

I adore David Copperfield. I learned to love Dickens after reading this novel. That said, let me also point out that I loath the social politics in the book. Only gentlemen get to be gentlemen. Characters like Little Emily aren't allowed to be ladies, to transcend their social class; neither ...

... Fitzgerald Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Middlemarch by George Eliot

... constantly find themselves in a cycle of debt and 'chasing Peter to pay Paul'. LBYM is of course an offshoot of Dickens' David Copperfield ....... ""My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, ...

In the famous Twilight Zone episode, Henry Beamis is reading David Copperfield.

I am a great fan of David Copperfield myself, so I would suggest that. I also liked Nicholas Nickleby a lot.

... a touch of mystery. To start with Dickens I don't think you can go wrong with his first novel, The Pickwick Papers. David Copperfield is an excellent choice, as well. Jeez, I think it would be easier telling someone new to Dickens where not to start. Or not. He sucks me in so deeply ...

David Copperfield is definitely a favorite of mine and probably one of Dickens' best, but do know that it's long. My edition runs about 800 pages in tiny, tiny print. If length isn't a concern of yours, then go for it. It's impossible not to like Dickens after such an introduction. If ...

My categories and books are: I've never read anything by ... 1. Haruki Murakami - "Dance, Dance, Dance" 2. Dawn Powell - "Come Bac ...

... Dickens but I've never tried to read Bleak House. I've thought about it several times and usually just end up rereading David Copperfield or Great Expectations instead. But it's very inspiring that you've finished it. Maybe I can tackle it this summer!

... 1970's 26. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte, 1960's, reread 2x 27. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, 1960's, reread 28. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens, 1970's 29. The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne, 1960's 30. Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1970's 31. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, 1970's ...

... add it to my 2008 list. This makes my total 44, which I'm pleased with, bearing in mind that I spent a month apiece on David Copperfield and Crime and Punishment and managed to read the mammoth Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. I'm also pleased with the quality of my ...

... of the Movement by John Lewis and Michael D'Orso The Art of Teaching Writing by Lucy McCormick Calkins David Copperfield by Charles Dickens A Testament of Hope by Martin Luther King Jr. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Final Cut Pro ...

Just finished David Copperfield, now onto Farthing for the group read. Copperfield is some read. If only an SF writer or two would write that way. Oh, what glories we would have!

... I guess. Vermicious Knids, and those creepy grandparents. That was a weird Christmas, I had to do triple shots of David Copperfield and Little Women just wash it down.

... translation will be a major decider for you.) To geneg Your use of the word 'cloying' is interesting. So much of David Copperfield is cloying beyond belief however I am not sure that stops the book from being excellent literature. By cloying, I take it to mean an excess of ...

46. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Well I think that David Copperfield is for the most part a positive book. Possibly Kafka's The Trial could be considered a bit darker book. But people are welcome to ignore the question if they wish......

... seem to run on forever without necessity. I completely understand the difficulty, though I will make an effort to read David Copperfield next year, as I hear it's one of the more easy to read Dickens. Don't feel bad, though: our minds are not trained to read the way past readers were (n ...

I'm currently reading David Copperfield but after having read Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House in the last six months or so I'm a little disappointed in DC. It isn't as mature a work as either OMF or BH and as a result, for my taste, isn't quite as good overall. Of course all the essential Di ...

#37> I think that David Copperfield is superior to Dombey and Son, even though I enjoyed D & S. In fact, in my opinion, David Copperfield is the best of all his books.

... of the Year in 1994) and Balzac. So far a very pleasurable read -- but, I have always love reading history! geneg .. David Copperfield is one of my all time favorite reads, I liked it better than Bleak House, enjoy. And, Oliver Twist I just realized that I have read a condensed ...

I'm a little more than half way through David Copperfield and hope to finish it during the holidays. I have a couple of ideas. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of you out there in LT land.

... whether it will heighten the experience or not, especially since I find that most of his books (excepting Bleak House and David Copperfield) grow tedious if I try to read too much of them at once. And perhaps my dramatic reading will improve over time.

NO! JUST WEAR A WIG! SAVE YOU LOVELY LOCKS!! Anyway, I think David Copperfield is written by Charles Dickens. I was sobbing like a baby.

That is my mom's favorite book. But I think all David Copperfield books can make anyone cry. I still don't know how my mom read the books. She can't read anything sad. YET, she managed to read most of his works. I'm confused.

Yes, they are. But I don't have much patience with Charles. Though, I did read the pain-stakingly thick David Copperfield, I think it was nearing a thousand pages. I watched the movie beforehand and it made me cry.

... Angel.. But I didn't really like that Alex either.. I have to say I really really dislike Uriah Heep and Murdstones from David Copperfield (but then again, who will like them, I wonder..)

Down to 55 as I start Dickens's David Copperfield. This is a re-read, which I put in the TBR pile after I heard it being discussed at length in a programme about the Victorian age. I have finished Liza Picard's Elizabeth's London. My review: I found the first part on the ...

... Atonement East of Eden Roxana Uglies Emma Wuthering Heights David Copperfield Gone With the Wind Charlotte's Web Catcher in the Rye Catch-22 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe The Shining Intervie ...

Well, I do love Dickens..^^ (I only read five of his works..but still..) I remember dedicating myself to David Copperfield and..SAT prep......one summer..

... there have been some difficult times, I've really enjoyed my project to finish all of Dickens' major novels. #10: David Copperfield came out before both Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend at the midpoint of his career.

Currently reading David Copperfield. Young Trot has just gone to stay with Mr. Wickfield. Really enjoying it, but reading this right after Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend have questions about the single threaded story telling. Chronologically, where does David Copperfield fit with ...

January sounds good to me. It will give me a chance to finish David Copperfield. I've been thinking about O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, a kind of tip of the hat to kjellica, since this is about Scandinavian pioneers in the Midwest. Or, possibly The Octopus by Frank Norris, Or, Jack ...

... 19th-century style novel to a friend of mine (also a SF&F fan) - and to my delight it succeeded, where Little Dorrit and David Copperfield failed.

Currently reading David Copperfield for pleasure. The Trial for the Group Reads - Literature group. So far it's just downright weird. A lot of discussion trying to figure it out. I'm not sure there's any figuring out to be done. It comes across as an exercise in the absurd. Just finished ...

"Is that you, Peggoty, dear?" From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

... De Quincy begins his descent into hell by taking laudanum to get him over the discomfort of a severe cold. I'm reading David Copperfield and in the first chapter there is a simile using laudanum as a comparator. I don't know if laudanum will play a bigger role as the story progresses or not. ...

... rest feeling like deja vu all over again. I read this one for the Pro & Con (Religion) group read. I'm currently reading David Copperfield while awaiting the arrival of The Day of the Triffids for the SF group read and The Trial for part two of the Group Reads - Literature group.

... and ranged from glorious (Wray Manning's illustrations for Martin Chuzzlewit), to bland and disappointing (John Austen's David Copperfield). Keeping's website I find maddening in its organization, and it's virtually impossible to get an idea of his aptness for Dickens, but I am impressed ...

I love Charles Dickens (also a "D"), and particularly have a soft spot for David Copperfield. Dickens' ability to create unforgettable characters is brilliant!

... and found these were my suggestions: 1. The Brothers Karamozov 2. The Magic Mountain 3. The Tale of Genji 4. David Copperfield 5. Vanity Fair Again, several people wanted to go for something shorter, and I'd be fine with that. Most of these are pretty long!

Lord Jim, Mr. Blue, David Copperfield and Billy Bathgate are all attending The Kalahari Typing School for Men.

... chiefly because my first introduction was A Tale of Two Cities, which I do not consider "typical" Dickens. I think David Copperfield is the most reader-friendly of his novels. It's an orphan story, our-hero-cast-out, a cast of hilarious characters, notable villains, and lots of ...

... I read in high school and loved. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Garden of Shadows by V.C. Andrews Stealing Home by Sharon Robinson Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells Th ...

... Laurie Halse Anderson (co-worker) 7. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (sister) 8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (friends) 9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (brother) CATEGORY COMPLETED 8/20/09

... short stories are frequently considered his best writing. As for Dickens, I really enjoyed Great Expectations. David Copperfield is also frequently mentioned. I wasn't too keen on A Tale of two Cities or Hard Times. The "LT Literature Group Read" folks recently finished Bleak ...

... finished 8. Sarah, Plain and Tall - Newberry Award Classics 1. Of Mice and Men 2. Wuthering Heights 3. David Copperfield 4. Bleak House 5. Vanity Fair 6. To the Lighthouse 7. Silas Marner 8. The House of the Seven Gables YA Books 1. The Book Thief - ...

... the way, Lord of the Rings was no 1 too with Pride and Prejudice second. Charles Dickens received his only mention for David Copperfield coming in at equal 100th in the Aussie list. What a shame! Do people no longer make the effort to read Dickens?

... the way, Lord of the Rings was no 1 too with Pride and Prejudice second. Charles Dickens received his only mention for David Copperfield coming in at equal 100th in the Aussie list. What a shame! Do people no longer make the effort to read Dickens?

... Lionel Shriver. Professional tennis and surgical dissection of a marriage, right up my alley. I really like this writer. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens. Review forthcoming, the longest I've ever written. The Darkest Road - Guy Gavriel Kay. Last of the Fionavar Trilogy. Satisfying ...

geneg If you need help deciding -- I would read David Copperfield over Crime and Punishment; both books are must reads, but David Copperfield was soooo much fun. Dickens's characters in this book are unforgettable.

... Age, Bleak House and Midnight's Children. I hope to finish Our Man in Havana today or tomorrow and then it's on to either David Copperfield, Crime and Punishment or a non-fiction about The Great Game. I just don't know.

... Upon opening the book and reading your Opening line - " I was almost born Happy"- I was hooked , brought to mind Dickens David Cooperfield - "I am born" - and Melvilles Mobey Dick -"Call me Ishmael"-. I'm a sucker for short, simple and understated opening line that speaks volumes. I ...

My gorgeous copy of David Copperfield has been claimed!

I have a beautiful David Copperfield by Dickens. Its imitation leather bound with gold trim and gold edged pages. Its not listed in my inventory. If anyone wants it, just send me a private message. I would prefer to send US only or Canada for this volume since it is such a heavy book.

... readers. Can you say why you liked Martin Chuzzlewit which I agree is a greatly underestimated book, and disliked David Copperfield? I don't mean to criticise your taste - I'm just interested.

... I thought I was one of the world's biggest Dickens fans. Then I read Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. As of now, I'm batting two-for-five, my first two at bats being a home run with runners on base and a solid, solid double. My last three, I struck ...

#35 -- I think the first Dickens I read (aside from A Christmas Carol) was Oliver Twist. I also remember really liking David Copperfield. Hmmm . . . this is making me want to read Dickens. Which would be a considerable shift, since I've been reading Meg Cabot and Sophie Kinsella ...

Referee, please. Are we to assume that devious_dantes is saying yes, David Copperfield and throwing out Tom Jones or are we still on David Copperfield? Come to think of it, I can resolve it without a referee. I have read both of those. Let me lob an easy one out there: Fury by Salma ...

Yup! David Copperfield?

... if I'd zipped through it I'd have missed out on a lot. Bleak House is a wonderful book, and completely makes up for David Copperfield.

... I know it would have to include: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres David Copperfield - Charles Dickens The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth Making History - Stephen Fry Gentlemen and Players - Joanne Harris The Remains of ...

30. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I decided to go with this Dickens first, as it was a paperback and I wanted to read something easily portable. It was a dense read, but highly enjoyable throughout. I was interested to read that David Copperfield was Charles Dickens's ...

1. Sense and Sensibility 2. Middlemarch 3. Nicholas Nickleby 4. David Copperfield 5. Tom Jones 6. Tess of the d'Urbervilles 7. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 8. Wuthering Heights 9. The Picture of Dorian Gray 10. Jane Eyre

... Here is my take on the subject: Enjoyed The Hobbit loathed LOTR, gave up, too derivative of the Hobbit. Enjoyed David Copperfield can't stand enything else by Dickens. Enjoyed Pride and Prejudice could not get into anything else by Jane Austen, tried all the others, gave up, too ...

... a desert island. Get the drift? Classics from 1001 Books 1. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 2. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 3. Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austen 4. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 5. Robinson Crusoe by DanielDefoe 6. ...

... a chance to gush about James. The Golden Bowl is fantastic.) ETA: I had actually given up on Dickens after I read David Copperfield - Bleak House is my first attempt at him again, and I'm enjoying it so much more.

... dimensional background - the operative word is "some". But being a simple Tortoise I prefer something less dense such as David Copperfield one of the greatest books ever written, in my opinion. The Golden Bowl is on my TBR list.

#109> The Tortoise, David Copperfield is my favourite too! However, Bleak House, which I am currently reading, might come VERY close to it. :-))

The best Dickens by far is David Copperfield Five stars.

... - after The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Thomas Hardy - after Far From the Madding Crowd Charles Dickens - after David Copperfield Elizabeth Gaskell - after North and South

... turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. David Copperfield If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and ...

La Nuit des calligraphes / Calligraphers' Night arrived this afternoon. I think Attempt #3 to read David Copperfield is about to become Failed Attempt #3 to read D.C.

rd... I wonder if it is sheer attitude?? lol The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood A two volume set of David Copperfield in a slipcase. Pristine condition....$2 The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint Bush At War by Bob Woodward Irish Poems a collection for children inscribed ...

The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood A two volume set of David Copperfield in a slipcase. Pristine condition....$2 The Wild Wood by Charles de Lint Bush At War by Bob Woodward The Atlantis Blueprint by Colin Wilson Irish Poems a collection for ...

Surfs up I'm in.... I read David Copperfield about ten years ago and remember how much I loved Dicken's writing style and humor. I thoroughly enjoy reading David Copperfield; if Bleak House is even better it will be hard to control myself -- my work & family will suffer -- oh well, good ...

... Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Don Quixote Miguel De Cervantes :-) David Copperfield Charles Dickens Oliver Twist Charles Dickens

Still reading David Copperfield and Three chapters of To kill a Mockingbird (in Norwegian: Drep ikke en sangfugl)

... stage, I'm going to suggest a few: The Tale of Genji - a nice short one :) The Magic Mountain or Buddenbrooks David Copperfield or Pickwick Papers The Histories - something a bit different Vanity Fair The Brothers Karamazov or The Idiot First Circle or Cancer Ward ...

... and Norwegian: 'Mysterier' (reread)). 'Knut Hamsuns Mysterier' by Gregory Nybø How Fiction Works by James Wood and David Copperfield and the book mentioned in #39

I'm still reading David Copperfield Next from my TBR pile: To kill a Mockingbird 'Hunger' by Knut Hamsun (reread, this time in English) Mister Pip The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time The Enchantress of Florence

I guess I am a schizobibliomaniac too. Currently reading: David Copperfield (in English) Growth of the Soil (in English and Norwegian: Markens grøde) How Fiction works by James Wood (in English), non-fiction To kill a Mockingbird (in Norwegian: Drep ikke en sangfugl) Leaves of Gras ...

... of the Soil by Knut Hamsun 5. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut And I'm looking forward to To kill a Mockingbird and David Copperfield

David Copperfield and one of the 97 film adaptations of David Copperfield?

David Copperfield! Can't help with the movie though.

Currently reading: (Not started yet): 'Hamsun i Tromsø IV' (my tag: hamsun secondary) David Copperfield (my second Dickens' read) 'Markens grøde' (Growth of the Soil) by Knut Hamsun (re-read). 'Hamsun i Tromsø IV' is the free book of the year from "The Hamsun Society", where I've ...

I'm re-reading "Markens grøde" (Growth of the soil) by Knut Hamsun + David Copperfield (#170)

... Press editions. I tend to prefer most of the illustrations in these to the ones in the Nonesuch editions: John Austen's David Copperfield, Gordon Ross' Pickwick Papers, and especially Wray Manning's definitive illustrations for Martin Chuzzlewit--I would say his portrait of Mr. Pecksniff ...

I read Great Expectations (in Norwegian) three or four months ago, and I might read David Copperfield (in English) now. The introduction was interesting, I think.

My next read is David Copperfield and I plan to read Growth of the soil by Knut Hamsun. By the way: I've just started a new LT-group named "The Hamsun Group". See http://www.librarything.com/groups/hamsungruppa

I'm reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. I've read a rather long introduction and some pages of chapter 1 in my English paperback edition.

>137 kjellika ~ David Copperfield is a very fine novel. But it will probably feel like 'light reading' after War and Peace and Middlemarch! :D

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Just started.

War and Peace: page 845, 223 pages left. Plan to read: David Copperfield in English Tilfeldigvis - Arial Footlights Forhistorie

... received a box containing ("Collector's Library"): A Christmas Carol and two other Christmas Books, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and Bleak House. More than 4.000 pages !! Three months ago I read 'Great Expectations' in Norwegian ("Store forventninger"), and I ...

#204, 205 - I mooched David Copperfield a few weeks back while feeling optimistic about reading some classics. You're not inspiring me to move it up the pile!!

#205 You've given me the idea to try David Copperfield again, but this time only read one chapter a week. That would make the idea of starting it again more tolerable. I wouldn't have to feel like I had to forsake all other books for the duration. I'll let you know how it goes!

... for the link, Detail! I get mad everytime I see the scene with Bemis' wife ruining his book. Storeetllr, I read David Copperfield in the 6th grade. Can you believe that it was required reading for a bunch of 6th grade students?! I need to read it again. I might actually enjoy it ...

Ohhh! That is too cool! Thanks for the link, Detail Muse! I've simply got to read David Copperfield!

Wow, I can't believe all the people who have David Copperfield as their favorite. I enjoyed it, but it's probably my least favorite Dickens so far. I just got so upset with David for marrying the wrong person! I love Bleak House and The Pickwick Papers. And A Christmas Carol, of course!

... if there isn't something wrong with me that there are many that are so beloved, and I can't seem to get through them. David Copperfield (although I've gotten more than halfway through), In the Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, Love in the Time of Cholera, and Jane Eyre to name a ...

... Dickens) I'll soon receive some of his greatest works from The Norwegian Book Club (English editions): Bleak House, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers etc.

... Heights (Eng. + Nor.) The Brothers Karamazov (Nor.) Pride and Prejudice (Eng. + Nor.) Madame Bovary (Nor.) David Copperfield (Eng.) Great Expectations (Eng. + Nor.) Bleak House (Eng.) To the Lighthouse (Nor.) Don Quixote (Nor.) Mansfield Park (Eng.) -------------- ...

... ing: Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Pri ...

Nicholas Nickleby is my favourite and next favourite is David Copperfield.

Uriah Heep from David Copperfield always made my skin craw. He's such a toad. Assef from Kite Runner was horrid. what's his name from No Country really creaped me out.

Heh, it was me on one of the other groups who was a bit sheepish about not realizing that Bemis was reading Copperfield when he got fired. :) I know what you mean about not having enough time to read as much as you want. I think that was one of the points of that Twilight Zone episode ~ ...

... western literature :) Wow, after that, I'm a bit intimidated, but here goes: The Histories The Confessions David Copperfield Zuleika Dobson I was choking on all that reading so I picked something "light" for the last one. I'll save all of Shakespeare for some other year.

... - and I agree, I'm stumped as to which to read next - I don't think I want to read the obvious ones (Great Expectations, David Copperfield, or Oliver Twist) just yet as I know what happens and the (very old) film of The Tale of Two Cities had me in such floods of tears (for the 'tis a far, ...

David Copperfield - should it be under "C" or "D"? ;D Either way, it's a fantastic book! One of my all-time favourites.

Wow, Nickelini, great thread, nice notes! My "English Novel of the 19th Century" class covered Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The cool thing was that it turned out that we happened to be a small ...

... list, there will be fewer regional variations. Consequently, only 4 Dickens novels - Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, are thought to be up to scratch, whilst novelists from Argentina to Belarus to South Korea are all included. On the one hand, this ...

digifish_books: I'm thinking about trying David Copperfield next; I've read that it was Dickens' personal favorite, which sounds like a good endorsement to me. :) blackdogbooks: I really wanted to like it, and I did start to right at the end. I don't remember being in a bad mood at the time, ...

A great list, wunderkind! Agree with your AA Milne and Dickens choices :) Have you considered Nicholas Nickleby or David Copperfield for your next Dickens book? I read them before Bleak House last year and really enjoyed them.

David Copperfield is right. Your line seems so familiar, I'll have to think....

Gotta be David Copperfield, yes?

Someone on the Dickens list was sheepish about reading David Copperfield in public. That's what got Mr. Bemis fired as a bank teller!

... Hallie Erminie Rives 2 copies 7. The Daughter of Anderson Crow, George Barr McCutcheon 5 copies 8. The Younger Set, Robert W. Chambers 1 copy 9. The Doctor A Tale of the Rockies, Ralph Connor 3 copies 10. Half a Rogue, Harold MacGrath 3 copies

Sandydog1 ~ No, I didn't know it was David Copperfield! How could I have missed such a thing? Too bad, too, because if I'd known, I'd have probably gone ahead and read it back then. As it is, I've just added it to my TBR list.

21 & 22, I just commented on that "Twilight Zone" episode on a LT Dickens topic thread. The topic concerned reading David Copperfield. Remember our hero in that episode was reading David Copperfield when he was supposed to be focused on his bank teller duties. It also was one of my favorite ...

wild stab in the dark just to get the next quote (and a hint?) David Copperfield

Reading David Copperfield in public reminds me of that classic "Twilight Zone" episode. Mr. Beavus (or whatever his name was) was reading David Copperfield as he was wroking as a bank teller. He got fired for reading on the job.

... really do own all 20 original 32-page volumes? Honestly, if someone does own all of the original monthly installments of David Copperfield, I'd actually love to know. I'm sure some manuscript libraries may have them, but with the last one published in 1850...I doubt that there are any ...

... books that were an illustration every other page and significantly shorter than the original. I entered David Copperfield and was rather shocked to see over 4000 members with the book! Yeah, you can guess...combined with the original. I don't know if people think that "delux ...

... an old school library trying to get rid of their books: The Robe by Lloyd Douglas O Pioneers! by Willa Cather David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (I already have plenty of copies of this, but this one had a prologue by G.K. Chesterton, so I couldn't resist) Mom surprised me by ...

My favorite Dickens is David Copperfield, closely followed by Great Expectations. My brother recently decided to start reading Dickens, and I recommended Great Expectations as the better one to start with, because it's, uh, a good three hundred pages shorter. (Same issue with Bleak House. G ...

I second The Quincunx, and would also add David Copperfield and Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

Newman King from The Store was really freakin' creepy. Uriah Heep from David Copperfield also was a sleezeball. I kept screaming at the book for them not to trust him. They didn't listen to me, though... I'm with the others in here who have pointed out Randall Flagg from The Stand ...

Hi Ajay! Welcome! I LOVED Bleak House too, but it's long. I don't recommend David Copperfield; the middle drags and half the time I wanted to smack either Mr. Micawber or David :-P. Pickwick Papers is hilarious and probably a good introduction to Dickens. And of course there's A Tale of Tw ...

... cloth bindings (Binding) seems a little out of place for David Copperfield -- the latter, especially, since my copy's paperback. Television doesn't ...

David Copperfield was waiting for me in my mailbox when I came home from work. <long pause> Hang on, I had David Copperfield waiting for me. I mooched three books within hours of each other, and the first (Memoirs of a Geisha, message 41) appeared yesterday. The ...

... the spines crack leaving ugly white streaks on a black background. This has happened with my Penguin Classics editions of David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby which had really thin covers. I keep those hidden away from view in a cupboard ;) Agree that Penguin do excellent notes & ...

... likely to be talking about periods earlier than that in which it was written, but I wouldn't necessarily class a novel like David Copperfield, that is set entirely in the author's own lifetime, as "historical". I, Claudius is another very well-known historical novel that more-or-less takes ...

... and then skims through the later years. The one in particular that I'm thinking of is Come and Get It. How old was David Copperfield when the book ended?

... of those I have read which is most but not all, it would be a head-to-head between Bleak House and Little Dorrit, with David Copperfield in third place. Bleak House and Little Dorrit are panoramic novels, depicting various parts of society, upper, middle and working class and ...

Well, this has been a great thread. I know what my next read is going to be: David Copperfield.

Almost exactly at the middle of David Copperfield as read by David Case/Frederick Davidson as though Dickens had written the story with him in mind as a reader 100+ years later. The story itself seemsa bit bogged down at present, but there's enough going on for me to continue.

... If it were, I'd never remember what I was supposed to read, like before LT. To the Lighthouse Franny and Zooey David Copperfield Mrs. Dalloway Henry and June Pale Fire - Nabokov Far from the Madding Crowd Bleak House The Prince - Machiavelli, not Harry Potter as ...

... and moderately enjoyed it, though never felt like picking it up when I wasn't actually reading it. Later, I tried David Copperfield and abandoned it halfway through - just couldn't get into it. What I want to know is, did I start with the wrong ones? Is there a Dickens I shoud start ...

... has shut up. My favorite tv show, ever, is Sex and the City. I know some of you will judge me. *sigh* I also have David Copperfield. My favorite city is Paris.

I've recently finished reading David Copperfield. A lot of people (including geniuses like Dostoyevsky and Kafka) rate this as a great work of literature. Dickens himself apparently thought it his best novel. As far as I can see, these are the main pros and cons: Pro - Occas ...

... time Mask Market by one of my favorite crime novelists, Andrew Vachss. Can you believe the bookstore did not have David Copperfield? Chapters in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The only three Dickens books they had were Great Expectations A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. W ...

>21 Nickelini, I think Little Dorrit is 1024 pages including appendices, notes, etc. David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend are both about 950 I think....

... change your world view like I will? Or can you brag about having read them?" This I get from the likes of David Copperfield, Far from the Madding Crowd, 100 Years of Solitude, Walden and Crime and Punishment.

... Towers by Anthony Trollope Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Runners-up: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes David Copperfield by Charles Dickens The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

... my top five, in no particular order: The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens David Copperfield by Charles Dickens North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Bleak House by Charles Dickens

David Copperfield and The Last Chronicle of Barset are pretty weighty, at close to 1000 pages each.

... Eyre, Wuthering Heights Chaucer -- Canterbury Tales Dickens -- Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol Dumas -- The Three Musketeers George Eliot -- Silas Marner Robert Frost -- a pretty good bit of his poetry Thomas Hardy -- Te ...

... middle and end: Candide, ou L'optimisme Jonathan Wild Typee Omoo The master of Ballantrae Lord Jim David Copperfield B. Those that don't, but also happen to be great, great classics that you can't put down until you've finished and then you wish there had been more: ...

... They were about 100 pages with a few pictures. I read them over and over again. This year when I read the complete David Copperfield It was like returning to my childhood. I remembered all the characters and the story. Now as an adult I can appreciate Dickens writing. I think as a teen I ...

... Bleak House probably isn't a good starting point - you could get bogged down pretty easily. Nicholas Nickleby and David Copperfield are both wonderful, but long - so take your time and saviour them :) Have fun!

David Copperfield or, if you want something shorter, A Christmas Carol or any of the Christmas Stories.

... at school - a silent presence near my bed - looking at me with the same intent face - holding up her baby in her arms. David Copperfield Charles Dickens

Nickelini (7), if you want to try more Dickens, I would start with David Copperfield, it's my favourite!!

... It captures a period and a place. However, for a desert island, where I may be for a very long time, perhaps David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Why this and not the Fitzgerald, because of its Englishness I suppose, its atmosphere, humour, darkness and for the wonderfully drawn ...

So, what do you think, Urquhart, David Copperfield? (amazing Treasure Island by RLS comes up when I touchstone David Copperfield. Go figure.

I read David Copperfield earlier this year after Urquhart posed the question "Is there any book as good as David Copperfield?".... or something along those lines :) His question and the discussion that followed really piqued my interest! I think you'll find David Copperfield so much more ...

Well, it looks like it's been two months since we chose OMF for a read. What's next, or did I miss the next book? I suggest David Copperfield, a Dickens I've never read.

... that others still read and enjoy his works motivated me to give Dickens another chance :) My favourites so far have been David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby, even though they are quite long, as they are easier to follow. I also watched the BBC adapatations after reading them, and found ...

... returned from a library sale with $8 worth of books, including: The Red Badge of Courage, The World According to Garp, David Copperfield, A Year in Provence, Lost in Translation, Speaking of Journals, Post Capitalist Society, The Great Railway Bazaar, Author, Author, Foe, Necessa ...

... read Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. After joining LT (and this group in particular) I got motivated to read David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and most recently, Our Mutual Friend. Oliver Twist and Hard Times are now in my TBR pile. I'm so glad I re-discovered Dickens!

... had a hard time picking a diverse top 10! 1. Drama: I have to give this to Dickens, whether it's Bleak House or David Copperfield. 2. Mystery: I don't know whether it's technically a mystery, but I loved Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. 3. Comedy: Tristram Shandy 4 ...

Now that I'm finished with The Alienist I'm moving on to David Copperfield. When I was young I had an abridged kids version of David Copperfield that I loved and read over and over. I'm amazed at how quickly all the characters and plot twists are coming back to me when I'm reading the real ...

Blunderstone Rookery would come, however, in spite of her, when the carrier's horse pleased-- and did. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Oh marise, David Copperfield will be a treat! It is my favourite. When you get to read it, I will be curious to know what you think. My attempt at reading OMF failed miserably. It is probably because, right now, I have no brain to read anything requiring an effort. I plan to pick it up again, ...

... will be interested in reading your review, geneg, but after that I leave this story forever! :) Still, I intend to read David Copperfield sometime this next year.

... Rings The Bible Norton Anthology of English Literature The Name of the Rose The Worst Journey in the World David Copperfield and then if there was room, just for fun the Earthsea books and and any Horatio Hornblower I could fit in. Yup, that would work for me!

You might want to try Nic Costa and Gianni Peroni Series by David Hewson They are police dectives in Rome Italy The fist book in the series is A Season for the Dead

... by Martin Amis The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro David Copperfield by Charles Dickens I think I'm going to read the Kingsley Amis one next.

... er the exorcist by william blatty trainspotting the english patient by michael ondaatje queen of sorcery by david eddings wow that took a while

Not so easy -- I thought of a few that turned out to be mules, not donkeys. One that springs to mind is: David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ("Donkeys, Janet!") It's cheating, but if you run the tagmash donkeys, fiction you ...

A character in Last Days of Summer reads David Copperfield which led me to the book and to a love of Dickens. And I second the Clive Staples Lewis to George Macdonald

David Copperfield is my favourite among Dickens' books. I have read it at least three times - the first in Italian, when I was about 12 years old - and each and every time got completely and totally in love with the plot and the characters. To me, no other among the Dickens' books I read is as ...

... and I was responding to that as well. Please keep in mind that I am a relative newcomer to Dickens, so I have not read David Copperfield. I think I shall make that my next choice after Our Mutual Friend so that I have a more rounded experience of Dickens' women! As always, Urquhart, ...

Just about to start Noah's Ark by Barbara Trapido. Finished Black Swan Green by David Mitchell earlier today - a great read.

Just started two new books: Indiscretion by Jude Morgan The World of Christopher Marlowe by David Riggs I'm listening to Innocent Traitor by Allison Weir on my iPod.

There's David Mason the fantasy author, and David Mason the poet, quite unrelated in person and in literary subject.

... 51 now! I'm trying to slow down but I do find myself wanting to skim (just a little)... the same thing happened when I read David Copperfield. For NN, I had the pleasure of free audio for the first 26 chapters and it really brought the story alive and was read a pace that gave you time to think. ...

Just got started on David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

... from British colonial campaigns in Africa, India and Afghanistan in the late nineteenth century. I'm not a huge fan of David Galula's Counterinsurgency Warfare, or Roger Trinquier's Modern Warfare as works for the general lay reader, as they need to be put into their proper, ...

... better as time went on. Louisa Bounderby and Estella show some variation. Even the many different types of young women in David Copperfield were a step in the right direction. Nice discussion!" ........................................ Those are her comments and may be worth thinking ...

King of the Murgos by David Eddings Queen of Demons by David Drake Dark Prince by David Gemmel A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E Feist

... about Yorkshire schools is indeed a little depressing –it reminded me of nastly old Mr Creakle and Salem House School in David Copperfield. I’m looking forward to a bit of humour to balance out the harsh cruelty that we are about to witness.

Soon to start David Copperfield by Dickens. There's a lot of Dickens on this list.

In no particular order... The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

... Dorian Gray, The Jungle Book, Kidnapped, The Red Badge of Courage, The Prince and the Pauper, Robinson Crusoe, David Copperfield, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Mutiny on Board HMS Bounty etc., etc. (He has since read originals of at least a few of these.) I realize that the ...

... Thompson. I also enjoy many of the BBC (TV) adaptations of classics, such as Barchester Towers, North and South, David Copperfield, Bleak House,etc...

I finished David Copperfield by Charles Dickens and have started The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro - my first by him.

"My mother couldn't help it notwithstanding, so she cried until she had had her cry out." David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

... new to Trollope until just recently in fact. I'm currently taking a break during my reading of the Barset series to read David Copperfield, which is wonderful. I agree that some of Dickens' characters seem more 'gritty' and down-to-earth/'real' but then I do also love the way Trollope ...

Thank you very much, urquhart. David Copperfield is my favourite Dickens', one of the few books I read more than once and I will undoubtedly read again. Even though some of the characters are caricatures, such as Micawber and Uriah Heep, I do love the feelings they manage to stir in me, be ...

... after which I quickly read Evening Class just to change things up a little. I'm now happily back in the 19th century with David Copperfield. At more than 850 pages, I might be a while... :)

I've just started David Copperfield - very interesting and enjoyable for a Dickens :P

kayaalder, you listed several artists that I enjoy. My favorite David Arkenstone album is "Valley in the Clouds", although I have not kept current with his latest work. George Winston's album "December" is superb. It has a bit of a Christmas slant, but I listen to it any time of year. ...

... books :P). Even though I take great care, it saddens me to see my Penguin Classics already looking a bit tatty. My copy of David Copperfield has an ugly white crease down the spine and dog-eared corners after only one very careful read :(

... to keep things progressing at a respectable clip. Other classics I plan on getting to in the near future are The Iliad, David Copperfield and The Blind Assassin. Not sure if Atwood qualifies as classic yet, but that's only a matter of time. Anything written by her that I have yet to read ...

... pour l’un des meilleurs romans tout court, il est beaucoup moins connu en Allemagne que par exemple Oliver Twist ou David Copperfield. Bon, j’avais eu la chance de lire Bleak House dans le cadre d’un readalong, on était une vingtaine à le lire en même temps et à en discuter régul ...

... là dedans. J'ai vu que tu avais lu Bleak House et que tu avais beaucoup aimé. Moi, de Dickens, je n'ai lu que David Copperfield et Great Expectations. J'ai plutôt un faible pour le premier. Le second m'a paru vraiment tordu comme intrigue. PS (édité) Hé bien, en voilà un ...

I worry greatly as to whether some of you might lose your trusted copy of David Copperfield or feel embarassed to pull out said book in a public place or while at work. Hence, the suggestion when next you are in a public spot like Starbucks or at work, you may wish to type in http://www.ellopos ...

... rudeness. It is what is popular in politics, movies and music and the masses can not get enough of it. Dickens in David Copperfield on the other hand sculpts his characters as gentle charactertures based only lightly on real life. His lightness of joy and humor are just not matched in ...

ok, so why don't you decide to accept the fact that in your mind, David Copperfield is a perfect novel and the greatest book ever:-) Then, set that revelation aside (clearly somewhere in a high and sacred place) and move on. There are so many wonderful authors and novels to explore...

... recommend a book that has all the joy, charm, numerous characters, pathos, adventure, love of language, etc. that the novel David Copperfield has? Its characters, such as Uriah Heep, etc., are now a part of our language and culture. I am 65 and have spent a lifetime looking and have never ...

For some reason, I can never get into Dickens. I've tried both A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield and abandoned both, I think because they're just too dense. Ordinarily I hate abridged versions, but do you think I should try one and see if that gets me past my Dickens-phobia?

I like them all but I suppose my favourite is David Copperfield. I loved Pegotty and Barkus and the affirmation that "Barkus is willin'"; Mr Micawber, God love him, was so hopeless but always expecting something to turn up. Gosh, I'll have to re-read, is Steerforth in this novel??

... loads of books before time runs out. From my youth: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights War and Peace Little Women David Copperfield Great Expectations

... Expectations is his greatest achievement; an opinion that may change. However, my favorite of his novels has to be David Copperfield. Having just reread it I find that it gains further depth and charm for me as I mature and I look forward to reading it again.

It's a tough choice. I re-read David Copperfield quite frequently, so there's something in there that draws me back. The same goes for Our Mutual Friend and Bleak House; I can't imagine a world without those novels in it. For sheer gusto and gothic vision I'd have to go for Great Expectations ...

I will have to read them all again, soon. My favourite is David Copperfield, without any doubt. I remember the first time I read it, when I was about twelve years old, in Italian translation. I literally could not put it down until I finished, something that has happened with very few other ...

I love Dickens. I think my favourite was David Copperfield. dylanwolf: The TV factor might be important. I can't imagine reading Pride and Prejudice again after seeing the TV versions and the movie versions.

... dollars, but it didn't pay unless you studied for at least 3 months. Some of the great and now famous professors like David Riesman, Henry Rago, and William H. McNeill were lecturing, and Rago had a discussion section on poetry that was so crowded we sat on windowsills and radiators. ...

... The different moods of the sea thread through the sequence - Rimsky Korsakov's 'Scheherazade' around readings from 'David Copperfield', John Adams' 'Harmonium' around Elizabeth Bishop's mystic poem 'At the Fishhouses', Charles Trenet's 'La Mer' with Billy Collins' poem about the joys of ...

... and my trusty Penguin book of Greek Verse. If I'm stuck in bed, ill (which happens rather frequently), I will re-read David Copperfield and / or Wuthering Heights and / or anything by James Ellroy. Incongruous but, to me, soothing!

... Guide to the Galaxy series. Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie DH collects Terry Pratchett and David Eddings My mother collected Lucy Maude Montgormery - not just Anne of Green Gables but everything Montgomery wrote. Those books are in our house but have been ...

... Russian poet, but I never could find anything about him until now. I just got a copy of khodasevich his life and art by david m. bethea who was given access to khodasevich and berberova papers in the beineke library at yale. the book quotes many poems and gives a literal translation for ...

... by khodasevich, who nabokov called the greatest 20th century russian poet . it is a critical biography by an academic david m. bethea and it's called khodasevich his life and art. Khodasevich was married to nina berberova who wrote the accompanist from which they made a french film. ...

Today I just got a drizzle of honey- the lives and recipes of spain's secret jews by david m. gitlitz and linda davidson - it won the iacp book award and the nat'l jewish book award and it looks marvelous.

... ner; half-finished heaven the best poems of tomas transtromer,tr. by robert bly; khodasevich his life and art by david m. bethea ; a drizzle of honey -the lives and recipes of spain's secret jews by david m gitlitz & linda k. davidsonwhich won the nat'l jewish book award and ...

Jane Eyre Sense and Sensibility Mansfield Park The Brothers Karamazov David Copperfield The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Lysistrata Just got into reading the classics and now I can't stop!=)

... be able to pick one favourite. The first three that come to mind, though, are (not in order of preference) Dickens's David Copperfield, Austen's Pride and Prejudice, and Possession by A.S.Byatt.

... ludicrously angelic Nell. Is it wrong that I wish something would happen to her, just so it's all over at last? Now, David Copperfield is one of my all-time favourite books, I re-read it very recently and really enjoyed it. Much as I love Dickens, he's hopeless at fully-rounded women ...

... is to this novel I don't know if I'll now be returning to it again ... I'll think I'll devote my Dickensian curiosity to David Copperfield instead. >27 "That'll teach me to veer away from Greek drama ... " If you like Greek drama, Hera, then you'll probably really love ...

... and the GOLDEN triangle by Gilman BLACK Beauty by Sewell Thirty Years in the GOLDEN North by Welzl David COPPERfield by Dickens The SCARLET Pimpernel by Orczy A book of GOLDEN deeds of all times and all lands by Yonge Never the WHITE Rose by Voss ...

#98 richardderus Your comment re Hugo, Balzac and Dickens is one which resonates with me. Having recently read David Copperfield and The Invisible Woman: the story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens, I had a sudden understanding of just how strongly he caricatured his characters. Do you think ...

Listening to David Copperfield by Dickens. Finally I am enjoying the book. Only took the first five hours. Required reading for a lit class. Also have to find Mrs. Dalloway. Tried to read it and am having a really hard time knowing who is speaking so I am hoping having the book ...

My top five of the year were: David Copperfield, Charles Dickens The Baroque Cycle, Neal Stephenson (I know, it's three books and therefore a cheat, but I did read it all at once.) Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters The Big Rock Candy Mountain ...

#12 coookbookkid, it's been a long time, but I think I remember David Copperfield being one of those books which I read half way through before I really got into it. Those were the days when I never gave up on a book, and I'm glad I didn't, because it seems to me I really liked the last half. But ...

Still reading David Copperfield Having a really hard time getting into the book. Just finished The Lost Garden and really liked it. First Helen Humphreys book I have ever read. Spending tomorrow watching a 13th month old who sleeps a lot so I should get a lot of reading done.

#15 I uncombined Gibbon from Twain but also noticed that someone has David Copperfield by Mark Twain, scary that.

... you how dumb LTers can get, if you look at the inventory of Mark Twain's work you will see that he is both the author of David Copperfield and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In fact, the LT "Author" page for Mark Twain claims that Edward Gibbon ...

Currently trying to get my school reading out of the way over Holiday. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and David Copperfield by Charles DIckens. Having a really hard time getting into either book. Would much rather be reading Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen.

... seconds, mulling this over. Then I raised my hand and said "Actually, Uriah Heep is a character in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield and while he was a slimy jerk and ended up in jail, I don't think he was the devil." Pretty much I got silence and my whole question was glossed over ...

... 15 yo and 17 yo, just finished reading the newest book from A Series of Unfortunate Events. We had started reading David Copperfield all together back in January. Unfortunately it got set aside once summer hit, and I've never gotten back to it. We really need to pick that back up again. ...

... to read the "classics," and I am making decent progress with that goal, but I absolutely CANNOT get more than 50 pages into David Copperfield. I have been seriously banging my head against the wall with this one. I wouldn't have tried to force myself past page 5 if it weren't a "classic" but ...

I love all of Dickens' books, but my favourite is David Copperfield. Once again, this shows that different people have different tastes, and that's great! Valz, I only read The fountainhead by Rand, but I enjoyed it quite a lot. I agree with you: she was a fantastic writer (not bad ...

... I had to read him in high school, and I knew then I hated him. Then about 4 years ago I picked up a paperback copy of David Copperfield, and struggled about a third of the way through it before starting on something else. My bookmark is still in that spot, but I still don't think that I ...

origin of species David Copperfield

... a true classic, then something like Martina Cole straight afterwards as I did recently. Cole suffered badly compared to David Copperfield and positively withered next to Patrick O'Brian, who might not be considered a classic yet but is a marvellous writer. So to those who complain about ...

Pride and Prejudice and David Copperfield.

... Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Also, Ulysses by James Joyce, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. If you think about it, there are sooooo many wonderful books to read! I ...

... Comfort Farm today in a very short time and it was just as funny as I remembered. I just finished my umpteenth re-read of David Copperfield this morning and was inspired to start Our Mutual Friend again. I'm also reading The Mating Season and have just started Number One Ladies' Detective ...

... when reading. Despite its being for children, I'd recommend it highly to anyone in need of a smile. I'm re-reading David Copperfield and loving it. I'm also reading The Rebel and - frankly - am struggling. Maybe the recent drop in temperature has frozen my brain?

... does reading read Dickens or James or Tolstoy mean you can't also read children's literature? In the past year I've read David Copperfield and Rob Roy and Moll Flanders, but I've also read Little Women, Love that Dog, and The House on Mango Street.Why not read a bit of everything? I ...

... Shakespeare et al provided plentiful 'eureka' moments. I rarely get that now, although I've started my fifth re-read of David Copperfield and it's making me feel all cosy and happy, rather than stimulated enough for a debate...

... your opinion of Dickens on audiobook. My favourite reader is Anton Lesser; he did a wonderful job of Little Dorrit, David Copperfield and Nicholas Nickleby. Also fun are BBC radio's full cast recordings. What I dislike are the abridged versions of these long novels. Dickens' writing ...

... I've put together a list mixing modern and classic but it's not really definitive: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights David Copperfield Pride and Prejudice Music and Silence by Rose Tremain Leaning Towards Infinity by Sue Woolfe HIghways to a War by Christopher Koch ...