Originally Posted by
Bluebeard
Pickwick is great fun and a good read, though not as good, in my self-inflated opinion, on the book it is based on, Don Quixote. It requires time though - at over the thousand pages, I found it a little intimidating, but it is well worth it as a funny read.
Staying classic, and Dickens, A Tale Of Two Cities is an absolute belter from golden opening line to tear evoking ending and memorable last line. Funny throughout as a sidebar to the mighty and portentious events therein. Well worth a gander.