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Summary: One High School Student's Review
Review: This novel is excellent. Although it starts out slowly, it begins to pick up in the middle. After giving many details about the main character Pip's family, Dickens gets into a little action. For example, the meeting with the convict in the churchyard is where the action starts to pick up. Seeing Pip grow up, I watched him go through a transformation. Once an unitellegent child, he grew up to be an intelligent young man. The book deals with child abuse, social status, and family and friendships. I saw how a sister took in her little brother to raise him and keep him from dying like the rest of their family. Love is another thing that continually comes up. When he was young, Pip fell in love with Estella and I saw how she tortured and teased him. This would be a great choice for those who love great classics.
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Summary: One High School Student's Review
Review: This novel is excellent. Although it starts out slow, it begins to pick up in the middle. After giving many details about the main character Pip's family, Dickens gets into a little action. For example the meeting with the convict in the churchyard. Seeing Pip grow up, I watched him go through a transformation. Once an unitellegent child, he grew up to be an intelligent young man. The book deals with child abuse, social status, and family and friendships. I saw how a sister took in her little brother to raise him and keep him from dying like the rest of their family. Love is another thing that continually comes up. When he was young, Pip fell in love with Estella and I saw how she tortured and teased him. This would be a great choice for those who love great classics.
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Summary: Great Expectations: One of the worst books I have ever read
Review: This book was a large disappointment for me. I had seen the movie, and hoped that the book would be good. However, I was wrong. In fact, this book turned out to be one of the worst I have ever read. The book has too much description, not even important to the story. Dickens lost my interest in the book from the very first chapter, just a plain description of main character Pip's history of his family and town. This chapter drags on for too long, as does the rest of the book. As an example, the character Estella's rudeness towards Pip is repeated so often that it becomes annoying. I got the point of Estella's bringing up and lifestyle early on in the novel, and this did not have to be repeated so often. This book could very well have been interesting, but Dickens did not do a good job writing it. His continuous decscrptions of such landscapes as rivers and trees are irrelevant to the story, and caused me to drift away from it. I do not reccommend this book to anybody, and advise you to avoid it. I, as well as many other people I know, could not even finish this book. It brought no interest to me, and it is too long, considering that it contained nothing attention-grabbing and no excitement. However, if you do insist on reading this book, please just get the cliffnotes. It is not a book worth buying.
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Summary: Overrated, worthless, and so very boring
Review: This book reminds me of algebra, its boring, time-consuming, worthless, and you will never have to use this in your whole life. Never! So when you're teacher asks you to read this book, don't do it. Read the Cliff Notes or watch the Wishbone version.
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Summary: I Expected Better
Review: I simply expected this book to be greater than it was. It just wasn't great, and that's what I expected. It did not greatly exceed my expectations, but I should have expected that, since others told me to expect a not-so-great book.
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Summary: It ...
Review: I can't understand how anyone can stand to read this dribble. A "Book" consisting of 50 pages of people standing around talking reads more like a court transcript than a "great novel." If you own this book, burn it.
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Summary: Good Book--- GREAT Edition...
Review: I really loved this book, but the best part about this particular form of Dickens's classic novel is the section at the end of the book that included Dickens's notes on the characters and plots, an alternate ending, and footnotes about the use of language or phrases that might be confusing to the modern reader. Also, the cover does not press an image of the characters or setting onto you, and allows you to picture your own Pip or Estella. Other editions of this book might not give you so many resources and be so reader-friendly. I am glad that I was forced to read this book, because I would have never read it on my own, or I would have quit after the first book---- which is a little boring, but reveals some very important facts to develop the intricate and complex plot. Isn't it great how everything ties up so nicely in Dickens? Read this book, but make sure never to question the genius of Dickens... putting you halfway to sleep before dropping a bomb and putting a huge plot into action. Stick with it, and you'll be glad you did. But make sure to get this edition of the book, because it is far superior!
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Summary: Classical Literature
Review: Great Expectations was the greatest book that I've ever read. The way that the book was put together always left you wanting to know more. The book was told by a young boy named Phillip Pirrup, that falls madly in love with a young lady name Estrella. He ends up being sent away to England to become a young gentleman, and strays away from the love of his life. A great deal of scandal goes on, and if I tell you anymore than you'll know what happens, but I will tell you this. If you like a dramatic sope-opera filled with love, suspense, and action than you will find this book astounding. I can tell you I loved this bok, and I'm sure you will too.
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Summary: 1800's soap opera
Review: i had to read this book for school and ill admit i wasn't exactly enthusiastic about it. But as soon as i started reading it i fell head over heals into Pips world. Great expectations is about a boy named Pip who lives with his sister and his brother in law Joe. He begins to visit the rich lady of the town who has a beautiful but crual adopted daughter named Estella whom Pip falls desperatly in love with. Pip finds out that he has a bennifactor so he moves to london to become a gentleman. He meets many people like the stiff lawer Mr. jaggers,the happy go lucky Herbert and Mr. whemmik who is a stiff as Mr. jaggers in the office but once at home in his casatle he laughs and has a great love life. this is one of those books that you can't stop reading. And the twisting plot and all the sub plots are just like todays soap operas. Happy reading
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Summary: A master's masterpiece
Review: Dickens, along with Dostoevsky, stands atop my list of novelists who could most accurately portray the subtleties of human emotion and passion. "Great Expectations" is simply a masterpiece of 19th-century fiction, and is pure Dickens. In this semi-autobiographical work (a trademark of Dickens' writings), the life of a poor young boy, Pip, is followed from his humble beginnings to his rise into the middle-class, due to the mysterious aid of an unknown benefactor. His pursuit of Estella, a beautiful young girl raised to break the hearts of men by her jilted caretaker, Ms. Havisham, is a classic of literature that has been repeated countless times since. The tragic, gradual break between Pip and his family (particularly the humble but caring Joe) is heartwrenching. Pip's eventual realization of the insincerity of the middle class, and his love for Joe, brought tears to my eyes."Great Expectations" is a wonderful, moving book that has been copied and satired again and again, from Mishima's "Forbidden Colors" to South Park. An important and unforgettable novel!
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