David Davidson

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Having gone into Waterstones for a book to take with me on a short break I did what most people do and read the one line reviews. Big mistake! I was a boy of around 11 years of age when I first got the love for Mark Twains novels. Although it started off quite interestingly and was believable (initially) it gradually became rather boring and far fetched. I presume the clamour for it being the spirit of the day to blame our ancestors on all things bad as the world was a more ignorant place. Thankfully I won’t now read any more Percival James novels and have re-ordered the Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn to refresh myself of Twains first hand appreciation of the language and feelings of the time. Hopefully this may purge the bad taste left by this novel.

James

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I’m afraid this film bombed a little for me. Perhaps it’s my age and my love love of Dickens in his purest form that I could not quite get my head round this new and supposedly funny version. My comment for the characters would be ‘diversity gone mad’ and I hope that doesn’t brand me as a racist. Where the casting people hoping to jump on the bandwagon for BAFTA’s etc given the outcry for more diversity in the awards. If so I think a period drama set in Dicksonian times was a poor choice.

The Personal History of David Copperfield

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