I knew the name before reading the book: David Copperfield. But he was a magician for me. I was watching him in the TV when i was a kid. I did not know for a long time that this name belongs one of Charles Dickens characters.
The time I took the book in my hands, and started to reading i was waiting for David to become a magician. I was thinking "Oh, but how this is gonna end from here to being a macigian?"
At the end, it really did. He became a writer...