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Everywhere I went while reading this book, I heard, “You’re reading Great Expectations? I love that book! It’s one of my favorites!” Which led me to have great expectations about it.
Of course, now, after finishing the book, I see where having great expectations can lead…how one could and should find happiness in one’s own backyard or enormous TBR stack…
I’ve given away the plot here, but this book is so much a part of American high school life that I can’t be giving away much. How did I get thro ...more
Of course, now, after finishing the book, I see where having great expectations can lead…how one could and should find happiness in one’s own backyard or enormous TBR stack…
I’ve given away the plot here, but this book is so much a part of American high school life that I can’t be giving away much. How did I get thro ...more
I loved the initial part of the story and the last third, however the middle portion seemed to stretch endlessly, like Dickens was being paid by the word (maybe he was since this was initially serialized!) and just dragged on forever, aimlessly. Some of the characters are beyond wonderful (talking about Joe, Biddy and Herbert and even Wemmick), and some are beyond contempt (can you say Miss Havisham, Estella, Jaggers, Mrs. Joe, Orlick, Pumblechook). Pip himself seems incredibly dense (this is ma
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