All that David Copperfed kind of crap

I've seen the movie "Gone With the Wind" just about a hundred times, and there's that scene where Melanie Wilkes is reading David Copperfield and says,"Chapter One:  I am born." That was all I really needed to hear to assume, and correctly, that David Copperfeld is incredibly boring and focuses on a lot of tiny details just to introduce characters or show the setting, etc. He didn't do that so much in Great Expectations, but Salinger was trying to make people understand that this wasn't going to be a boring book, so don't expect it to be. Dickens does tend to focus a lot on what things look like, even though Great Expectations is told through the eyes of a child through some parts, and The Catcher In the Rye doesn't at all.