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Ketutar posted a review at 2010-06-25 03:26:55.
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I think this is delightful read :-) It's funny. Recommended for every Victorian
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-22 12:47:07.
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Mr Pickwick and his friends (Pickwicians) travel and meet with a motley assortment of characters and comic adventures...860 looong pages. I give it a C.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-19 10:49:35.
(Language: English)
 
Hilarious!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-20 12:50:26.
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the earliest novel, the beginning of many masterpieces, fantastic!
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-18 01:31:05.
(Language: English)
The Pickwick Papers is somewhat of an oddity in terms of Dickens career - a straight up comedy, he never wrote another book like it. And yet this was the book that catapulted Boz into the public imagination. The number of people that plagerised Dickens characters from the book was astounding - imagine someone today writing an unauthorised book entitled "Harry Potter Jr" today and you're halfway there. A hilarious read
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-18 10:14:48.
(Language: English)
Just so funny. The characterisations are so realistic. You can never be down if you have this book to keep you company!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-10 02:07:16.
(Language: English)
A total favorite book. Transported me to another world - cozy and brilliant mid Victorian English countryside antics - for a summer, long ago. Kept the worn copy in my pocket during art school days in New York. Rode the subways late at night, flourescent headache, reading the tattered Penguin paperback.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-24 02:06:15.
(Language: English)
I really struggle reading the first 100 pages or so of any Dickens' books I have previously read. This book book followed the pattern. Overall it was a good book.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-11-23 02:59:40.
(Language: English)
really good book
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-10 01:32:32.
(Language: English)
i started reading it at school because we had to read a challenging novel so i picked it up i got to the first chapter and started reading i found it so hard to read and was so bored
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-08-15 05:36:07.
(Language: English)
This is an interesting Dickens book, he was only 24 when he wrote it. Pickwick starts a club for adventuring with 3 of his fellows (makes me think of Wind in the Willows). Initially just their adventures, until the characters start to come alive. You can see Dickens style develop as the book goes along. Love his sense of humor and the 1830's time frame. I would not recommend this as a first book to read, if you haven't read Dickens before. If you are starting out, go with Oliver Twist...
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-27 11:59:52.
(Language: English)
greatly great
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-06-09 05:36:39.
(Language: English)
An avid fan of Charles Dickens, I was surprised to find that Pickwick Papers was not a favorite, as I have found it referenced in several other famous pieces of literature. The members of this club are wealthy English bachelors with too much time on their hands. Dickens' inspiration for this story was the Arabian nights and Don Quixote. These influences can be seen in the various stories that are told throughout the novel and the bumbling character of Mr. Pickwick and the members of his club.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-10-17 10:31:29.
(Language: English)
Another book I wanted to like but didn't
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-07-27 06:37:04.
(Language: English)
Who could ask for more in a character than what emits from the singularly well intentioned and pure countenance of Mr Pickwick, leader of his many admirers within the Pickwick Club. A wonderful book with lots of delicious language to sink one's teeth into.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-03-13 10:01:34.
(Language: English)
A all time classic.Very funny and a light read.Great characters,
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Eileen posted a review at 2011-02-09 04:34:38.
(Language: English)
Old Curiosity Shop opened up my interest in reading this book, and after I finished reading this book all the rest of Dickens was laid before me and I felt I could go anywhere. I credit this book as the Gateway to all that is Dickens.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-01-11 09:48:15.
(Language: English)
One of the rare occasions where Dickens could be funny.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-07 04:45:38.
(Language: English)
Sublime Escapism: Enid Blyton For Grown Ups..
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-02-20 04:38:00.
(Language: English)
This is one of my favorite books of all time-- in the top 5, definitely. It's a huge romp all over Victorian England, along with some social conscience thrown in. I adore Mr. Pickwick, I adore Charles Dickens, and I read this book every couple of years and rediscover it all over again.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-01 01:06:24.
(Language: English)
Listened to the Librivox.org podcast version.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-12-16 11:01:35.
(Language: English)
Laugh out loud funny, and of course brilliant character-writing.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-30 02:05:31.
(Language: English)
This must be one of the funniest books in print anywhere. It is written with enough energy, wit and bravura to fill a lifetime's output, and the fact that it was Dickens' first novel (written when just 24) makes it all the more extraordinary. Full of vivid charcters and excruciatingly funny depictions of human foibles, this is a brilliant book and a delight from first to last.
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A Reader posted a review at 2010-04-22 10:57:39.
(Language: English)
long, but totally worth reading. will be reading it again.
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Scott posted a review at 2010-02-26 05:49:40.
(Language: English)
This was Dickens' first novel. It follows the adventures and misadventures of a group of slightly eccentric characters, Samuel Pickwick, and his associates in the Pickwick Club, as they travel in London and around the English countryside observing human behaviour. The Pickwck Papers is regarded as a classic of comic writing. The Pickwick Papers contains many of the themes that were in Dickens’ later novels. Debtors laws and prisons feature in the story, as do laws dealing with breach of promise in marriage. Gabriel Grub, the character in the Chapter, The Story of the Goblins who stole a Sexton, is similar to Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. Yet, though this story is grim, most of the novel is comic, and higlhights some of the absurdities of life as Dickens saw it. The humour would probably be appreciated more by people who know more about what society was like in Dickens’ era.
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