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Liked It6 of 6 members found this review helpful “If most Dickens novels are symphonies, “Great Expectations” is a string quartet. In a minor key. Probably by Schubert. The book is one of his shortest; it’s taut as a noose, and this dark fable glows like an emerald bracelet coiled around Estella’s ivory wrist. |
Didn’t Like It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “I've forced my way through some bad books, but couldn't do it for this one. I hated every character in the story, hated the plot, and hated my high school English teacher for making us read it.” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“I read this in high school and loved every minute of studying it. Charles Dickens' stories and his time period fascinate me more than any other. Read it. It's one of his best.”
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“fantastic plot
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“So far I love it!!! Total Dickens fan... =) I like it even better than Oliver Twist...
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'Mazing... Ok, I was hooked onto it in the first paragraph! The first sentence! Wow...”
“ This is not an easy read, but it has a theme that I am always drawn to--good times encourage selfishness and unthankfulness, while hard times refine us--showing us what truly matters. ”
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“I had to read this book for my english class, and it was horrible. It gets better towards the end when everything starts to come together, but its just too long and couldnt hold my attention. If you're looking for something to read for fun, in your own spare time, i wouldn't read it. ”
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“What's not to love? It's among Dicken's best.”
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“So far Great read”
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“If this book were my favorite cereal, I would ask fore more.”
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“A favorite Dickens' novels. Here is a copied review: Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens ’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the ruined garden where he meets the bitter and crazy Miss Havisham and her foster child Estella, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a secret benefactor gives him a fortune, Pip moves to London, where he cultivates great expectations for a life which would allow him to discard his impoverished beginnings and socialize with the idle upper class. As Pip struggles to become a gentleman and is tormented endlessly by the beautiful Estella, he slowly learns the truth about himself and his illusions. Written in the last decade of his life, Great Expectations reveals Dickens’s dark attitudes toward Victorian society, its inherent class structure, and its materialism. Yet this novel persists as one of Dickens’s most popular. Richly comic and immensely readable, Great Expectations overspills with vividly drawn characters, moral maelstroms, and the sorrow and pity of love”
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