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Summary: An amazing book
Review: Any one with a passion for literature (and those who don't) should read Great Expectations. Not only is the story itself wonderful, but Dickin's underlying messages of about life and circumstances that lead people to their destinies are amazing. While a bit wordy at times, the style is superb and outlives the era to speak to modern people as well as it did one hundred years ago. Please, don't let your view of Dickins be "old"! This book is as relevent today as it was when first published. Read it today!
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Summary: great story
Review: i had to read this in my freshmen english class. i found the chracters of estelle and pip to be profound and astounding. you can't help but love ms.havisham and her antics. great book for any teen 13-17.
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Summary: A Waste of Time
Review: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens One of the most popular books ever written by Charles Dickens was Great Expectations. It is considered to be his greatest work to many critics. I read the book and found that it was probably the most boring book I had ever read in my life. Overall the book had a pretty well thought out plot. To me though the book was a classic and masterpiece only when it was first became published. People now in the present are not very easily satisfied with a book with a good plot and are well written. People now are just more interested in books that have a lot of twists and turns in the story. They want be able not know what is going to happen next in the story. The book Great Expectations even though it was such a boring book it did have some very interesting parts. Also the book was overall well written by the author. One strength that the book had was the fact it had such interesting characters. The author had well character development throughout the book. All the characters in the book were described that you tell each character apart because of their personality or physical appearance. The main character Philip Pirrip also nicknamed Pip was very well described as a character. The author told everything possible about Pip so throughout the book you saw the main character grow into man and also grow as person in general. When Pip when through something you almost felt like it was you in the book. Also another strength in the book was the great setting descriptions. It was so good because when you were reading the book you could actually picture the setting in your head. The book had very little strengths because I was forcing myself to actually read it. If it had actually been actually interesting I would have finish the book in one day instead of a three weeks. The only reason that I actually read was the fact I knew had to do a report on it. The book had many faults for a classic book. The main weakness of the book was the chapters that were pointless and just there to take up space. The book seemed was written to just tell a story of boy without any really interesting parts. I was somewhat disappointed in the fact that the book was considered a classic book because a classic book to me is book that can interest anyone and any age. The book had great plot and well-written characters but I thought that the book could have been shorter. It could have been shorter and would still have the same impact on a reader. The reader will eventually find out that the book Great Expectations is just a book to read when you have nothing else to read. Think this book just wasted my time. I hated every minute that I spent reading this book. In scale of one through to ten I would give it a four. The book is fairly good but the book is simply too long to tell a simple and boring story of a boy named Pip. I wouldn't recommend this book because I think that the reader will be truly bored. Probably the main target audience of this book was of young adult. The book is good for that age range because of the somewhat difficult and confusing vocabulary. The book Great Expectations is just a book to be read when there are no more books to read.
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Summary: funny
Review: I didn't actually read the book, but I saw the South Park version of it. It starts out as Pip is about to go to the graveyard to see his parents but meets an escaped convict. Pip free's him and then goes home. His brother in law ,I think it is, makes a metal newspaper and finds a job for pip entertaining this old women. This old women tries to get pip to like her daughter so she can break his heart and get his tears to get the Genesis device to work. At the end pip, the brother in law, and the convict fight the old womens robot monkeys and kills the old women.
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Summary: An emotional masterpiece
Review: My favorite book. Every emotion every character feels rings true in the heart of the reader. There is no secret to this book, it is what it appears to be on the surface.
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Summary: Don't Have Great Expectations For This Novel.
Review: You won't be needing a bookmark with this novel- more like a pillow! I read this my freshman year of high school, maybe I was just too young to understand it and appreciate it, but I could not read the whole thing without falling asleep. After reading half the book, I read the cliff notes and actually found them more interesting than the novel itself. Unless you are suffering from insomnia, I wouldn't buy it.
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Summary: Great Expectations Review
Review: The reason that I chose this book was because I saw the play at my high school.I thought that this play was performed really good by the student body,so i decided to read the book, and the book was pretty good. I felt bad for Pip because he was living as an orphan with an abusive sister. That must have been very exhausting mentally and physically. I admire Pip because he is very young and the fact that he has to travel,work, and take care of his sick sister, he is a very good rolemodel. I also admire him because if a ex-convict came up to me, I would be so scared that I would run away. The fact that he trusted Magwitch with a lot of things really amazed me. Pip has gone through a lot of things with his family and his own personal life in a considerable amount of time and I admire him for that. Hopefully him and Estella get together because Pip is a very nice guy and I think that they would have a lot of fun together.
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Summary: The Pain of Longing
Review: if there is ever a person i feel sorry for: it's Pip. we have all looked up to the pretty girl (or boy) at school, and had that utter pain of knowing that it is impossible. pip is the patron saint of the rejected male. i have two problems with this book: one is the deus ex machina-esqe conclusion in the final 50 pages, where everything falls into place. when i say everything falls into place, i don't mean neatly. the ending is anti-climatic and pensivly moody. but things seem to work out in a weird way that i have some problems with secondly- the whole plot of the book is one whole huge coincidence. with that said... i didn't mind the two faults whatsoever. there are few books that i have enjoyed so thuroughly as GE. anyone that has read Dickens in the past already knows about his prowess as a writter. and for people who have yet to read him (or highschool students who have just recieved their copy of GE, with a frown) will realize why he has remained contemporary, and still enjoyed. when i was in highschool, and i had to read a tale of two cities... my teacher exhausted the book, going over every minute symbol that was in it... in the end, it bored me. so, with that said, i love two cities regardless cause i read it independantly, and enjoyed it on my own pace. i recomend to all highschool studends to read the book at their own pace and bugger what your teacher tells you (yeah, i'm a good rolemodel). school tends to destroy great works of literature, don't fall into the trap.... whooops i thought this was a book review... great book, beautiful characters, a classic and well worth 5 stars... nuff said (i shed a tear or two at the end)
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Summary: !
Review: I choose to read this book, though most people my age would not, for an assignment at school. At first I was skeptical and thought Dickens might be one of those boring writers who wrote pages and pages of nothing. As I read the book though I was very suprised. I found that the plot was very interesting and there were many exciting scenes. In conclusion I would recomend this book to anyone who thinks they can handle it!
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Summary: interesting contrast with David Copperfield
Review: When his magazine, All the Year Round, began failing due to an unpopular serial, Dickens was forced to begin publishing installments of a story of his own. The resulting work, Great Expectations, was published weekly from December 1, 1860 to August 3, 1861. This was his second semi-autobiographical work, but where David Copperfield was a confident expression of faith in middle class values, Great Expectations offers a bleaker view of whether those values will lead to happiness. In fact, Dickens own marriage had just come to an end after many unhappy years. Indeed he had recently changed the name of the magazine from the more bucolic Household Words. Despite, or because, of this ambivalence, Great Expectations became one of his greatest achievements. Pip, a boy of the marshes, is being "raised by hand" by his shrieking harridan of an older sister and her seemingly doltish husband, the blacksmith Joe Gargery. One day, while visiting his parents' gravesite, Pip is accosted by an escaped convict who demands that he bring him a file and some "wittles". When the convict, Abel Magwitch, is later captured, he accepts the blame for stealing the file and food before being carted back to prison. Shortly thereafter, Pip is invited up to Miss Havisham's manor house to play with her beautiful ward Estella. Miss Havisham's life came to a halt when she was jilted at the altar, all clocks are stopped at the hour of her betrayal, the feast lies rotting on tables & she wanders about in the decaying wedding gown. Estella is to be the instrument of her revenge upon men. Eventually, "Great Expectations" are settled upon Pip when a secret benefactor sets up a trust in his name and sends him to London to be educated and become a gentleman. Pip assumes, and Havisham allows him to believe, that she is his benefactress and that he is being elevated to a position that will make him worthy of Estella. As Pip rises in society, he leaves Joe behind, despite the many kindnesses Joe had shown him growing up. He becomes a shallow arrogant middle class climber. So he is stunned when he discovers that he is actually benefiting from the secret wealth of Magwitch, who made a fortune in Australia after being transported. Moreover, Magwitch's unlawful return to England puts him and Pip in danger. Meanwhile, Estella has married another, a horrible man who Pip despises. Eventually, with Magwitch's recapture and death in prison and with his fortune gone, Pip ends up in debtors prison, but Joe redeems his debts and brings him home. Pip realizes that Magwitch was a more devoted friend to him than he ever was to Joe and with this realization Pip becomes, finally, a whole and decent human being. Originally, Dickens wrote a conclusion that made it clear that Pip and Estella will never be together, that Estella is finally too devoid of heart to love. But at the urging of others, he changed the ending and left it more open ended, with the possibility that Estella too has learned and grown from her experiences and her wretched marriages. This is the work of a mature novelist at the height of his powers. It has everything you could ask for in a novel: central characters who actually change and grow over the course of the story, becoming better people in the end; a plot laden with mystery and irony; amusing secondary characters; you name it, it's in here. I would rank it with A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and David Copperfield among the very best novels of the worlds greatest novelist. GRADE: A+
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