July Books 21) The Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens

[nwhyte]

'We want to know, in the first place,' said Mr. Pickwick, 'whether you have any reason to be discontented with your present situation.'
'Afore I answers that 'ere question, gen'l'm'n,' replied Mr. Weller, 'I should like to know, in the first place, whether you're a-goin' to purwide me with a better?'
I got to page 118 of this and was beginning to

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[steve_mollmann]

I like the bit where Pickwick goes to jail, and the bit where there's an academic feud about the rock(?) he finds, but otherwise, I found it a slog. Dickens definitely did better later.