Great Expectations

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Summary: Absolute Garbage by Dickens
Review: Boring, pointless story of a pathetic imbecile whose life seems to be not much more than a bizarre journey through an insane asylum. I just can't believe that this story was preceded by "A Tale of Two Cities", which is an absolute masterwork of a historical novel - I cannot believe they were written by the same person!

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Summary: NEVER AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Review: AAH! This book bored me to tears... literally. Thanks to Charles Dickens and his array of b****y women and the rest of the babbling morons, I never want to see that book again. It was thrown across the room many times in the course of my reading. Being forced to read that garbage didn't help much either. I don't understand why honor english students have to be tortured with his 500 pages of nothingness. I had to get the monarch notes to be able to understand it all! It made me feel like an idiot and maaaaaaybe if it was understandable and shorter.... it would actually be good. MAAAAAAAYBE!

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Summary: BOTTOM LINE
Review: This review comes from a 15 year old male. I found this to be a rather good novel. If you are willing to read a big novel, do so and you should find some enjoyment in this book. If you can't stand reading some pages with just too much detail to get to the actual plot, avoid. Email me your comments, peace.

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Summary: A sophicatedly plotted and beautifully written novel
Review: Great Expectations has been one of the first of many novels I happen to touch upon fashioned by Charles Dickens. I set forth to reading it with a mind not interested but curious. Zeal may be the one motive that takes me through the first part of the novel. Fleeting moments of ambivalence of good and evil throughout the novel can always be found in one's life. As have been articulated, I find myself in Pip's reaction to what his fate and destiny has brought him. Pip's oscillation between compunction and remoselessness, egotism and selflessness is the cardinal element upon whcih the story is built .On the other hand, the plotting of the novel is superbly constructed, with the lives of countlss characters interwined with one and other. Miss Havisham, I reckon, is one of the best of them. This is one great novel that you should not miss. Miss it and you shall lose what is more valuable than Pip's expectations.

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Summary: "Great Expectations" deserves to be called great.
Review: "Great Expectaitons" deserves to be called great. While not as emotionally satisfying as the earlier "David Coppefield," it is nevertheless tighter, more compact, and displays a greater maturity and discipline of writing style on Dickens' part. Those who feel 'Copperfield' has all the characters, take note of the ensemble here-- Pip, Joe Gargery, Biddy, Mr. Jaggers, Uncle Pumblechook, Abel Magwitch, Estella, and the novel's haunting, living spectral figure, Miss Havisham. The intertwining of these lives, the playing out of these destinies, combined with its memorably Gothic beginning and unsettling ambiguous ending make "Great Expectations" a pleasure to read for both its narrative power and literary craftsmanship. Considered by many to be Dickens' "best rounded" story, I concur by offering this example. Having finished the novel, I craved a viewing of David Lean's brilliant 1947 film. I ended up by mistake with the Ethan Hawke Gwyneth Paltrow 1998 remake. I decided to give it a try, and was so enraptured by the look of the film and its grasp of the material I stayed with it. Not as satisfying as Lean's film, to be sure, but it works. Which says volumes about the power of Dickens' original story

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Summary: Alright, but could be better
Review: I had to read this for honors freshman English, and now my AP English class is considering reading it again for whatever unGodly reason. In classical Dickens style, Chuck makes a good social commentary or stirs some good emotions, yet does it way too slowly. The plot speeds and dies down, goes somewhere sometimes and goes nowhere even faster more often, and brings up characters who have no real purpose. Dickens is accused of being "wordy," and I see why: British authors were often paid by the word and length of their novels and short stories. No wonder so-called classics like "Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations" is heaped in a drudgery of fluff.

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Summary: A BIG BOOK ABOUT NOTIHNG!
Review: I think Great Expectations was a very long, boring book that didn't have a plot. Dickens seemed to drag the story on and on. If the book wasn't as long, it might have been better. I heard somewhere that Dickens got paid by the word and that is was there's a lot of extra, stupid words in it. I also think that it was twisted because everyone was realted to each other.

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Summary: A Must Buy!
Review: I had to do a report on Great Expectations, and this audio cassette helped me out so much. This is a must to get and add to your collection!

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Summary: Greatest Novel Ever
Review: I have read Pickwick Papers, Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, and Christmas Carol, and this is ten times better than all of them. I am a sixteen year old who never cries, and I didn't make it past Pip teaching Joe to read before Dickens mastery of his craft caused me to shed a tear. Dickens greatest writings are in this book. Every high-schooler should read it.

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Summary: Is this the lowest that i can go?
Review: This was the worst book that I have ever read in my entire life. I dont know why anyone would want to read this for fun. I had to read it for a summer reading book. If you dont have to read this dont!