Pickwick papers

This book is quite long and drawn out. I understand that he was paid by the word but it is not easy to get into a book that takes four paragraphs to characterise a carraige. None of these chapters really connect to each other. They are individual from each other and contain no common thread in which people can follow the story. The only thing that is the same is the characters, but this book needs more than that.

[Reader c]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

. They are individual from each other and contain no common thread in which people can follow the story. The only thing that is the same is the characters, but this book needs more than that.

I liked Pickwick Papers. It was not written as a novel or book. It was published as a series in a news paper, if I remember correctly.

Obviously the book isn't narrating some single plot line. That was not the writer's purpose. A lot of chapters are stand alone kind or narrate some particular incident and then move one. It never was about a common thread other than comic caricature of the general eccentricities of the society.

It's different, humorous and just fine as it is. The language is purple at times but that is something only Dickens could get away with.

(ESL here, so please ignore grammatical mistakes in the post)