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Chrissie
Jan 14, 2014 rated it did not like it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: disliked, great-britain, 2014-read, victorian, hf, classics, downpour
What can I say? I stuck it out to the end. 2/3 through it began to draw my attention. At that point I was moved by p-o-o-r Estrella and p-o-o-r Miss Havisham and even Pip, but then came the ending! Both the revised and Dickens' first ending were a total fizzle for me. Both endings were given in tis audiobook, and I liked neither.


I don't like Dickens' wordiness, his cynical humor or his dialogs. I never laughed. His style of writing has no charm for me. Too repetitive, most often boring and a ...more
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Laura
Feb 13, 2008 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, 3ms, classics, british-literature, fiction-19th-century, e-books, victorians, literature-english-country-house
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ...more
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