David Copperfield

Audiobook. Reader performance 5 stars. Story 2 stars. The book started well in typical Dicken's fashion and got my hopes up. It is written in a beautiful first person prose that quite captures you. The technical quality of the writing remains consistent throughout, but that's pretty much all I liked about it. I thought I would never find a Dicken's story boring or useless, but David Copperfield actually brought into my mind the word inane. I can't fathom why the author wrote the story-I just finished it and I feel I was better off before reading. It was a waste of time. The title character is nothing more than a spectator of his own life and his central love story is annoying to say the least. He is insipid, goody-good and maybe one of the most ineffectual man ever written. In short, I did not like it at all. The story though is populated by wonderful characters and Dickens has undoubtedly a great, great hand at characterization. That's probably what captures people. It doesn't work for me on such a long book. I admire the characters, but having no plot, no stakes, and a main character who is only a point of view quite annoyed me.