When I told Lucinda that I was thinking about reading David Copperfield next she said something about how long it would take me to get through it. I replied that I thought I could read it in a week. Lucinda doubted that... Challenge accepted! And with an hour to spare I got through to the very end. David Copperfield tells the story of the title character from birth up until about mid-life. Basically to sum up a 1200 page book, David has a mean step-father that sends him away to boarding school, then his mom dies, then his step-father sends him to go work in his factory (as a young boy still), he runs away to his aunt that takes him, he meets a bunch of people as he goes to school and starts a career, he falls in love a few times, he meets more people and becomes involved in their lives, gets married (twice) and has children. The end.
The whole book if filled with the interesting characters that David meets. There is the slimey Uriah Heep, the poor Peggotty family, the always broke Micawber, the innocent Dora, his crazy aunt Betsey Trotwood, the untrustworthy friend Steerforth, and so on. At one point David mentions that he read Don Quixote and Tom Jones. I liked how the book is so funny even when David is living through horrible conditions and that he always tries to make the best of a situation. I'll have to give it an A+.
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