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A Dickens Disappointment

Revisado: 05-15-24

I admit it: I was drawn in by the title's witty play on the name of my favorite book by my favorite author--"David Copperfield " by Charles Dickens. I was fully prepared for a coming-of-age story in modern times dealing with more modern struggles than the 19th-century classic. What I was not prepared for was the abundance of gratuitous foul language and graphic sexual description that permeated the book from beginning to end. I struggled to make myself finish the book; but I come away from it with a sense of having been corrupted and involved in something illicit.

I can appreciate the authors attempt to form characters with names and some traits similar to Dickens's own characters; but the effort to do so seems ironically wasted, since readers who love the "David Copperfield" characters and storyline most are probably the least likely to enjoy or appreciate the "Copperhead" counterpart. I found it offensive, foul, disturbing, and certainly disappointing. I wonder how Dickens himself would react to this strange imitation.

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Good First Effort

Revisado: 12-07-23

The story line of this work includes a fresh take on a few traditional elements but is largely predictable, at least until it nears its end. The vagueness in description and simplicity of sentence structure hint at a still maturing style. In spite of those perceived weaknesses in the work itself, the listener will likely find himself deeply engaged with the story through the rich and skillful voice performance of the narrator/reader.

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Left a Bad Taste in My Mouth

Revisado: 01-19-23

Although the book has many attributes of a good read, with a strong female protagonist that I really wanted to love and root wholeheartedly for, I found the obvious jabs at Christianity and Creationists too unsettling to overlook. In dealing with real injustices and inequalities in the story's 1950s and '60s setting, the author pushes too hard at imposing the modern "woke" ideology onto the reader.

Furthermore, the characters use an excess of profanity and otherwise offensive language that seems completely unneccessary.

On a lighter note, as much as I do love a faithful supportive dog, I found the "humanization" of the dog "6:30" to be so very exaggerated (as in having much of the story told through his well-organized , logical, and coherent thoughts) that I could not stay engaged with the narrative.

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Finally, a Book Boys Will Love!

Revisado: 01-16-23

Characters and circumstances every boy-mom, middle-school teacher, or camp counselor will recognize and chuckle over, with enough edge-of-your seat suspense and adventure to captivate the typically short attention span of boys of middle-school age. The girls will love it too for its spunky heroine as well as the admirable hero.

The narration is absolutely out of this world as each character is given somewhat exaggerated idiosyncrasies of voice. LOVE IT!!!

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Dickens Alive

Revisado: 11-30-22

Combines some of the best writing (Charles Dickens) with some of the best narration (Jonathan Price) to bring a moving story with memorable characters brought to life. This was a delight to listen to!

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Thomas Hardy Got Me Again!

Revisado: 11-07-22

This little-heard-of Hardy novel ranks above Madding Crowd and Greenwood Tree, near Tess/Mayor/Native. Happy Surprise!

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Classic Story, Amateur Narration

Revisado: 10-02-22

The tale as written, in spite of the fascinating premise, does seem to be stretched far beyond the needed length, but its end at least is satisfying. The performance of the narration here seems somewhat amateurish, with many mispronounced words, refular awkward hesitations, and even skipped lines. Disappointing indeed.

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Not the Macbeth That You Know and Love

Revisado: 08-24-22

Although I thoroughly enjoyed the novelization of Hamlet by these same authors, this attempt to make Macbeth into a novel so greatly reimagined the characters and stretched the storyline that one hardly recognizes Shakespeare's original story in it. I found it to be disturbingly dark and over-sexualized. it is definitely not a book that will get more than one read by me.

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Gratuitous Filthy Language and Descriptions

Revisado: 06-02-20

The horrific language and filthy descriptions ruined what might otherwise have been a good storyline. I will never know for sure, because I couldn't get through even a third of the book. It was disgusting and left me feeling defiled. Sickening...just sickening.

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