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Summary: loved it!
Review: Great Expectations is one of the best books I have ever read. Dickens provides the reader with a great story and a wonderful mistery. His presentation of the identity stuggle within Pip is, at the lack of a better word, marvelous. Everytime I thought I had the story figured out, I was presented with a jaw droping event that got me even more interested. I would recommend this book to anyone! It's worth taking on your next trip to the beach. Cheers!
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Summary: The Ultimate Failure
Review: I had to read GE for my freshmen honors English class, and I thought Lord of the Flies was bad! Dickens takes 1 paragraph to convey an idea that could have been said in 1 sentence! Many of the vocabulary is just out of our time, and take the fun out of the story. Unless you have heaps of time and patience, I recommend that you stay away from this "book".
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Summary: Great book, But you have to finish it
Review: I had to read Great Expectetions for school, at first it seemed like the worst book ever written, it was boring, confusing, and seemingly pointless. But, of course that was before I finished it and fully understood what Dickens was tying to convey. the whole book is a mystery, only in the very end do you finally find everything out. Note: if you are going to read the Cliffs Note version of the book (which i highly recommend you do) do not read the character summaries, because that will kill the whole book for you. Believe it or not, this is probabaly the only classial book with enough suspense to compete with the modern thrillers. Oh, and by the way, if you don't have to read it for school, I highly recommend you listen to the audio tape.
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Summary: Hard to read
Review: The book was long boring and hard to understand
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Summary: A great book, wonderfully read
Review: I got the "cover-to-cover" book on tape for a long road trip, never having heard the story before. I loved every minute of it. The things that Dickens does with the English language is endlessly entertaining, the story he tells fascinating and fast-paced. The highly talented Martin Jarvis reads wonderfully, giving great characterization to the many people appearing in the story, allowing me to see them all as completely distinct.
It's a shame that people feel such resentment when forced to read something. Most of the bad reviews this book gets are from young people who were forced to read it for a class. When taken at one's own leisure, and in one's own time, it is quite entertaining. I'm not sure that the teachers who assign the book are pointing out all the things that make the book great, such as Dickens's flair with the language, the point he's making about a society that places birth above worth, and his ability to make abstract arguments that enhance the story. I'd be interested in hearing from literature teachers to find out how they use the book in their classes.
One of the best books ever written, this reading is one of the best investments of my time I've ever made.
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Summary: How do you rate heart and soul?
Review: Those who have known the whole constitution of true art will assign to its realm Great Expectations. What I say may not convince you of its quintessential nature, but hopefully it will open your mind to possibly the greatest novel of all time.
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Summary: How does one rate perfection?
Review: Those who have known the whole nature of true art will surely assign to its realm Great Expectations. What I say may not convince you, but please, do yourself a favor, and read the book. The Bible, Tolkien's books, and Great Expectations are the greatest I have yet to encounter.
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Summary: My Book Summary for my 7th Grade Class
Review: Below, I wrote a summary on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens's for my 7th grade class. I hope you will find it helpful... Great Expectations Summary By Neil Toupin Great Expectations is one of Charles Dickens's greatest novels. In the begging it is slow and somewhat confusing. But as the story goes on, it puts all the pieces together. I was greatly surprised by some of the changes and ties that took place in this story. I could go ahead and tell you everything that happened, but I want to leave the reading up to you. So in the following paragraph I outlined the basic parts of the story. In the begging of the story you find a young boy named Pip that lives in England. He lives with his faithful friend Joe Fogarty. At the start you see Pip in a graveyard at his parents grave. Then a convict named Magwitch comes to him and the boy helped him. This story really starts getting interesting when Miss Havanshire, a very rich old lady who invites Pip to her house. There Pip meats the beautiful Estella, who Miss Havanshire has only trained to break men's hearts. Pip falls in love with Estella, but as times change and many events occur, they part different ways. Later in the story, when Pip moves to London, the pieces of the puzzle come together, and you will be surprised to see how things turn out. In conclusion, Great Expectations is a wonderful book about change and life. At some parts it is suspenseful and at others it is sad. In my opinion this is my favorite book and Charles Dickens's greatest novel. I'm sure it'll be yours too.
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Summary: Dickens Greatest Work
Review: Being a fan of Charles Dickens novels I can honestly say Great Expectations is his greatest work. The characters are unforgettable and the story which starts out slow in the beginning grows very quickly. The book is about life, living and the disappointments that come with it. The novel seems to have a very sad and uneasy tone throughout it. And if you have right version of the novel you will be able to read Charles Dickens original ending for this novel. Its very sad and disappointing to the reader but you cant help saying to yourself that the ending fits.
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Summary: Excellent Source for Commentaries
Review: "Literature Made Easy" literally makes literature easy to understand. In the "Great Expectations" version from this series, the reader is presented with a short plot summary, paragraph-sized descriptions of the characters, multiple theme analysis, several visual aids about the language structure, and then short chapter-by-chapter commentaries. I wasn't 100% pleased with this study aid because it didn't review the plot as much as I would like, but it has strength in the commentaries. There is a lot of analyzing, along with graphs and charts about the story line. One thing that I found in this study aid that wasn't in others was the glossary section, which sums up the difficult vocabulary words found in "Great Expectations". I would recommend this aid accompanied with the Monarch study aid version if you are struggling with the book Great Expectations. I give this study guide 4 stars, 5 if there was more detail about the plot. If you are looking for a study aid that analyzes the plot frequently, you should try this book (and this series) because 95% of the book is that.
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