Dickens, Popper

I finished reading Oliver Twist, which was a very good story, and I'm on the second volume of David Copperfield, Dickens' great Bildungroman. I also read Popper 's Unended Quest, his intellectual autobiography. Popper doesn't come off very well after the first few pages: he settles scores or pursues debates long since settled, it seems to me, and it's pompous as well. I also read his essay Poverty of Historicism -- this debate also seems settled to me.