Since you want to read all of Dickens, you might talking to folks in the Completists' Club:

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...

But no pressure of course!

BTW, I love The Pickwick Papers too.

I'm tempted to join that Group, but fear that it will compound my obsessive tendencies!!

I will work my way through Dickens - not decided whether to do so chronologically or just as the mood takes me (but probably the latter) - though it will be over a number of years, I think.

The Pickwick Papers is the book that irrevocably converted me to Dickens. I really didn't want it to end!

Michael wrote: "I'm tempted to join that Group, but fear that it will compound my obsessive tendencies!!

I will work my way through Dickens - not decided whether to do so chronologically or just as the mood takes..."

Believe it or not, but I had a similar Pickwick conversion experience, Michael!