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Summary: Eric's Book Review for Mr. Lynch's class
Review: I believe that this book is very well written. It is so far one of the best love story books that I have read in my life. I believe that it is one of charles dickens' best books that he has written. The only thing that i don't like about the book is the ending. the publishers should have kept charles dickens' original ending. If the publishers had not changed the original ending, to me, this book would have been a fife star book.
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Summary: Dickens did great
Review: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, was a very strong novel. I enjoyed it, but found parts of it confusing and difficult to read. It is a very "deep" novel which has twists and turns throughout. In the begining, Pip was an orphan who went to live with his sister (who was mean) and her husband (who was an OK guy.) Later, he goes to the home of Miss Hauisham. She is a lady who is kind of crazy because of a past situation. Her lover left her years ago. Here is where Pip meets her daughter, Estella, who is very beautiful ( and who was always moody and was spoiled.) Pip falls for Estella (I guess he can put her personality aside.) Later on, Pip becomes wealthy but he can't figure out who left him the money (He thinks it was Miss Hauisham.) It ends up that a man named Able left him the money. When Pip was young, Able asked him for food. Pip got it for him and Able was convicted and he was forced to move away. After he moved he became wealthy and because of Pips heart and help, Able left him a fortune. As for the end... you can read it for your self and find out the suprises. My only complaint is that there are some confusing parts (as I said above.) Overall, I really enjoyed this book and reccommend it for people who like Dicken's work. To be honest, when I first got this book I did not want to read it. I figured I would just rent the movie with Gweneth Paltrow, and base my report on that. It is SO DIFFERENT. The book and the movie are not alike. I decided to read it and so I did. I reccommend this book for people who like Dicken's work. He really did a great job with this one.
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Summary: An Amazing Story
Review: Everyone must read this book. It is quite a story, but not for the weak of heart. It will make impostors change their ways (or at least know the extent of wrongdoings) and those who are earnest count their blessings that they are.
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Summary: Confusing story
Review: I'm reading this story in high school now. I'm a freshman and due to these reviews, my teacher is making us read it. I've been reading it so far and I'm up to the first 6 chapters. I don't like this book but it's got its good points. I like how Dickens leaves you hanging from one chapter to another. But overall, I don't really like it. But if it makes the grade for me to pass, I'll read it and try my best to understand it. But I recommend you read something other than this if you can.
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Summary: A bizzare book
Review: Dickens has a very vivid imagination. He express himself in a bizzare way in all of his works. In this novel, however, he out does himself. This book has a strange air about it. I was rather confused how Miss Havisham could be so confined. Why anyone would let a man upset them so much. They really aren't worth that much. The storyline was very interesting. I found the book easy to follow. Overall I would say a must read
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Summary: This is a very good book. I would recomend it
Review: This book shows alot of character and keeps you wondering what this little boy is going to go through next. charles dickens is a wonderful writer. This book should be made mandantory for all students to read while they are still in high school.
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Summary: BY FAR ONE OF THE GREATEST BOOKS
Review: I think this book is so good, it doesn't need to be explained. However, if you dispise this book, I emplore upon you to try the book on tape. After all, these books are meant to be read out loud. Happy reading!
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Summary: Great!
Review: O.K. lets face it. im in fourth grAde. this is a very good book,but its hard.im akmost half way tttthrough it. its been a challenge.
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Summary: not a Dickens fan
Review: I know, I know...I'm just a stupid high school student who's brain has been fried by television. I was forced to read this novel in 11th grade and I couldn't finish it. Must be because I play too many video games, right?I'm a freshman in college now, and I still hate Dickens. Don't write me off as a slack-jawed Gen-Xer though, because I've read some pretty heavy stuff (Faulkner, Montaigne, Steinbeck, Salinger, Dumas, Hemingway, Vonnegut, Tolkien) and loved it. I eat up Mark Twain; "A Connecticut Yankee" was a page-turner for me, and "Huck Finn" is my all-time favorite book. I just don't like Dickens' writing style, which he shares with most other Victorian novelists: unnecessary verbosity, obvious pomposity about the self as a masterful writer. I agree that Dickens is one of the great storytellers of all time, and he may have had the greatest imagination for character development since Shakespeare. But his writing style turns me off.
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Summary: A classic for all times.
Review: This has to be my favourite Dickens novel. In fact, I would go so far as to place it alongside Flaubert's "Sentimental Education" and Dostoevsky's "Brothers Karamazov" as one of the great novels of the 19th century. I am astonished by the number of one and two star reviews even though they do appear to come mainly from high school students being "forced" to read the novel for English class. Judging by the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors which proliferate these submissions, Dickens is not the only thing that they've had trouble staying awake for. In addition, it is ridiculous to suggest that Dickens's novels were so lengthy because he was "being paid by the word." His books initially appeared in serial form as books were very expensive in the Victorian era and he understandably wished to avoid precluding large sections of his target readership from being able to sample them. The fact that some current "readers" find this novel "too long and boring" is, I believe, a sad reflection on our media saturated society where a two-second attention span is rapidly becoming the norm.
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