Comments for Turtle Reader » David Copperfield http://www.turtlereader.com Slow and steady, page by page... Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:14:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Comment on David Copperfield - Day 1 of 331 by New Books: Two Classics, Two Recent at Turtle Reader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-1-of-331/#comment-661 New Books: Two Classics, Two Recent at Turtle Reader Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:44:20 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/david-copperfield-day-1-of-331/#comment-661 [...] Dicken’s Oliver Twist. I just finished David Copperfield (a good [long] read) and felt like some more [...] [...] Dicken’s Oliver Twist. I just finished David Copperfield (a good [long] read) and felt like some more [...]

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 118 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-118-of-331/#comment-448 ScottS-M Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:02:19 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-118-of-331/#comment-448 I keep waiting for Steerforth to turn out to be some sort of bastard. Sure seems like there is a lot of foreshadowing going on. I guess it'll involve Em'ly after that bit about her being better off drowned way back in the beginning. I keep waiting for Steerforth to turn out to be some sort of bastard. Sure seems like there is a lot of foreshadowing going on. I guess it’ll involve Em’ly after that bit about her being better off drowned way back in the beginning.

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 118 of 331 by TurtleReader http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-118-of-331/#comment-447 TurtleReader Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:54:55 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-118-of-331/#comment-447 <dl><dt><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Ixions" rel="nofollow">Ixions </a></dt><dd>A king of Thessaly who committed parricide and attempted to rape Hera and was punished by Zeus by being bound to a perpetually revolving wheel in Hades.</dd></dl>
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A king of Thessaly who committed parricide and attempted to rape Hera and was punished by Zeus by being bound to a perpetually revolving wheel in Hades.
]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 77 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-77-of-331/#comment-425 ScottS-M Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:48:24 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-77-of-331/#comment-425 About time someone stood up for the kid. Good to see the Murdstones getting thwarted. I guess something else must go wrong for him though. About time someone stood up for the kid. Good to see the Murdstones getting thwarted. I guess something else must go wrong for him though.

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 60 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-60-of-331/#comment-420 ScottS-M Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:32:51 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/david-copperfield-day-60-of-331/#comment-420 <blockquote>I had two or three shillings of my week’s money in my pocket ... and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to accept of them as a loan. But that lady, kissing me, and making me put them back in my pocket, replied that she couldn’t think of it.</blockquote> I was really expecting these people to take advantage of him too. Nice that for once everything didn't go wrong for him (yet?).

I had two or three shillings of my week’s money in my pocket … and with heartfelt emotion begged Mrs. Micawber to accept of them as a loan. But that lady, kissing me, and making me put them back in my pocket, replied that she couldn’t think of it.

I was really expecting these people to take advantage of him too. Nice that for once everything didn’t go wrong for him (yet?).

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 47 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-47-of-331/#comment-412 ScottS-M Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:05:57 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/news/david-copperfield-day-47-of-331/#comment-412 I'm horrible at names so I had to search for "Chillip" (electronic text does have it's benefits). It turns out Mr. Chillip is the doctor that was present at the <a href="http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-4-of-331/" rel="nofollow">delivery at the start of the book</a>. I’m horrible at names so I had to search for “Chillip” (electronic text does have it’s benefits). It turns out Mr. Chillip is the doctor that was present at the delivery at the start of the book.

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 15 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-15-of-331/#comment-268 ScottS-M Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:25:16 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-15-of-331/#comment-268 I had <a href="http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-9-of-331/#comment-248" rel="nofollow">thought</a> his mother was going to be gone or dead or something but now I see I misinterpreted: <blockquote>It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.</blockquote> I thought he was leaving his <em>home</em> for ever but I guess it was the <em>happy</em> home that he would not see again. I had thought his mother was going to be gone or dead or something but now I see I misinterpreted:

It touches me nearly now, although I tell it lightly, to recollect how eager I was to leave my happy home; to think how little I suspected what I did leave for ever.

I thought he was leaving his home for ever but I guess it was the happy home that he would not see again.

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 12 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-12-of-331/#comment-253 ScottS-M Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:39:41 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-12-of-331/#comment-253 Geez that's pretty cold. I guess there must be some really bad things coming. Geez that’s pretty cold. I guess there must be some really bad things coming.

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 9 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-9-of-331/#comment-248 ScottS-M Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:11:33 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-9-of-331/#comment-248 She's giving him up for adoption so she can marry this Murdstone guy? She’s giving him up for adoption so she can marry this Murdstone guy?

]]> Comment on David Copperfield - Day 7 of 331 by ScottS-M http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield-day-7-of-331/#comment-244 ScottS-M Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:42:34 +0000 http://www.turtlereader.com/authors/charles-dickens/david-copperfield/david-copperfield-day-7-of-331/#comment-244 Doesn't sound like this fellow is going to turn out to be a good thing. Doesn’t sound like this fellow is going to turn out to be a good thing.

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