A review by ablotial
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
2.0
This book started out well, and I breezed through the first quarter of the book pretty easily and enjoyed it. But as David grew into adolescence he started to bore me, and it just got worse and worse. He was so naive and caught up in appearances and his aunt was bonkers and I didn't care about his work or his caretaker's work, and I was annoyed that he didn't go for Agnes and went for that AWFUL Dora (oh my LORD what a whining she drove me crazy) and and and I could go on and on.
Not only that, apparently there were a lot of parts of the book that I just flat out missed. Today I read a bit about what happened online and there were definitely important parts that I totally didn't catch happened at all, or that I completely misunderstood what was going on. I partly ascribe that to the old fashioned, fancy tone of the writing, and partly because I was half asleep while reading it because I was bored. Oh well.
Anyway, I've read it, and now I know what it was about. By the way, someone a long time ago told me that this book was about a magician, and I kept waiting for David to turn into a magician, or come across a magician. This never happened, and I was disappointed. Turns out, there is a person who is alive NOW who is a magician and calls himself David Copperfield. So whoever it was many, many years ago who told me this book was about a magician was obviously confused. But I do wish there had been some magic in this story - it might have made it more interesting...
Not only that, apparently there were a lot of parts of the book that I just flat out missed. Today I read a bit about what happened online and there were definitely important parts that I totally didn't catch happened at all, or that I completely misunderstood what was going on. I partly ascribe that to the old fashioned, fancy tone of the writing, and partly because I was half asleep while reading it because I was bored. Oh well.
Anyway, I've read it, and now I know what it was about. By the way, someone a long time ago told me that this book was about a magician, and I kept waiting for David to turn into a magician, or come across a magician. This never happened, and I was disappointed. Turns out, there is a person who is alive NOW who is a magician and calls himself David Copperfield. So whoever it was many, many years ago who told me this book was about a magician was obviously confused. But I do wish there had been some magic in this story - it might have made it more interesting...