[DyingClown]

I think one of Pickwick's great joys is that you feel you are on a very long journey, and you don't know what will happen next. Similarly with BB. In order to give the readers of my novel a similar sense of a journey, I made the novel the same length as Pickwick - so it is 800 pages long - and there are many interpolated episodes, just like in Pickwick. But I keenly wanted to "update" Pickwick - and I hope that the readers of my novel (which, as I said, is partly set in modern times) will try out Pickwick, after reading my novel.