Reply to Best longish book that is worth the time

Forum Index » The DCUM Book Club

Reply to "Best longish book that is worth the time"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m reading Demon Copperhead. 600 hundred pages long and it is sagging. I want to quit! I can’t bare to read it anymore, I don’t care about Demon. Too much internal dialogue and not enough plot.[/quote]

I feel the same. But last summer I read David Copperfield by CD himself so I find myself just trying to directly compare the two - chapter and verse. which is a fun distraction.

Also, while CD's version was an autobiography, I try to see Demon Copperhead as a metaphor for the most poor and oppressed in extremis. I mean, some of his misadventures are just comical.

And  the original IS about making your way poor and orphaned in england at a certain time in history. It ultimately is a happy ending and CD is great at painting pictures. Set in mid 1800s england, i feel distance of time and space -and less emotionally invested in his plight.

But in Demon Copperhead,  I'm more aware of these issues, they are physically and temporally closer, and the impact is greater.

As well, i believe the author is giving a voice to those who rarely get one, and the issues are au currant.

The writing is good and i feel like i'm learning something - which is a criteria for my time spent reading.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics