This was an amazing book, one of my favourites. In fact it inspired me to write a bit of a blog post.

I think my favourite thing about it is that Dickens in it reminds me of myself a lot. Of course he does present himself as pretty good in the book, but its just the way he views the world.

In his writing, there is so much moral good and moral bad, and it aligned so well with my own feelings about these subjects. It is of course complicated, but it makes its own sense. Like when he talks about how we should all get on boards, gentlemen on boards do very well for themselves, but then he puts in the utter contempt for the Veneering’s, very justifiably so (admitely this is from Our Mutual Friend not David Copperfield, but still). The characters are just so god damn compelling. I love it. 10/10.

I do see a lot of my own life in David Copperfield though. Dickens feels things so deeply. More deeply than I do, and I love that. And he values integrity so much. Where is that in modern writing? Where? Its just not something people seem to think about these days.