Terry Kepner ( editor ) - David Copperfield

Pros: Unforgettable reading and characters

Cons: Slow at times

The Bottom Line: David Copperfield is a book that everyone should read at least once

Review: This piece at first appears quite ominous due to its enormous size. Surprisingly enough it moves mush faster than you might at first expect. David Copperfield serves as a type of autobiography of Charles Dickens. Keeping this in mind is extremely...

Pros: Absorbing story, likeable characters

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: Definitely read it. 1000 pages is no big deal- I finished reading it (unabridged) in three days. I brought it wherever I went and read it whenever I had time.

Review: David Copperfield is a beautifully-written first person account of Copperfield's trials, travails, a ...

Pros: Dickens' great "David"

Cons: Purple prose

Review: This first appeared as a response to a review of "David Copperfield," but when I submitted the review, the system said that since it was a long reply, perhaps I should redo it as an opinion. So I am.


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Pros: Memorable characters, eternal story

Cons: Appears out of date at first

Review: Charles Dickens' David Copperfield is one of the great classics of English literature, a book which a generation ago I would have assumed all educated speakers of English had read. Now, however, there are so many books to read, that even a great classic...

Pros: great writing style which brings all the characters to life in print

Cons: very elaborately descriptive at times

Review: There is nothing new to speak about Dickens.He is one of the most prolific writers that England ever had.But what makes David coperfield a treat in reading is the fact that this book is partly autobiographical in nature.
Look through the eyes...

Pros: Excellent characters

Cons: Too many characters that are never heard from again and too much of the usual Dickens babbling

Review: This book is, as the title says, the only work by Dickens I have ever been able to stomach, and one of the few I have had the determination to sit through. I have heard many compare this book to Great Expectations, and while I admit that the two have...

Pros: wonderful writing, funny and sad

Cons: LONG and sometimes long winded

The Bottom Line: A wonderfully written, though long, novel, very much Dickens and very much a necessary classic book to read.

Review: I call David Copperfield Dickens's Epic because comprising of a whopping 821 pages in The Modern Library's paperback edition (that's 64 chapters total), without the notes and commentary to guide you through the novel, it takes a while to ...

Pros: interesting time period; most people have read it/heard of it

Cons: some expressions are not known by kids today

Review: I have been reading to my four children since before there were four children! In fact, we just finished David Copperfield last night. I had always wanted to read the book myself, since it is considered a children's classic.

It was fast...

Pros: good reading. engrossing picture of the times

Cons: style is too descriptive

Review: David Coperfield is an excellent treatise on the socio- economic conditions that prevailed in the victorian ers. Charles Dickens dissects the prudery, the callousness and the gloss that was evident in that age.

Dickens uses a very descriptive...

Pros: A great story with interesting writing style

Cons: Too long too boring!

The Bottom Line: A story of a young man and his hard life, basically a rags to riches novel.

Review: Now, I am not very old, just 14 and it is almost 6 months since i finished the book, but personally I don’t like it.

The book David Copperfield is a story of a young man's life. It is how he overcame all the struggle and strife of his life to...