David Copperfield and The Influence of Books on his Development

Walter Bowne talks about how we often become the person we admire
in the books we read and the stories we hear; as you write your
own autobiography, a condensed bildungsroman, a novel of the
development of a character, listen to this passage from David
Copperfield; notice the long list of books, and what youg David
felt about these books, and characters; he reveals much about
himself, and no one really cared for this tiny room with his
father's books except young David, That young David, is course,
or will become, the great Charles Dickens.