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Average Rating: 4.5
 
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful.

Dickens is a master...

Date of Review:  Nov 7, 2000
Review: Great Expectations is essentially about Pip?s ascension through society, the development of his selfhood, and his realization of which people actually care about him. Pip would not have to worry about any of these issues if it were not for Estella?s...
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  5.0

by: 311Bud
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Incredible development of the...
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None
 
14 out of 14 people found this review helpful.

How Great Expectations Should Be a Bit Smaller

Date of Review:  Aug 10, 2003
The Bottom Line: A book about personal growth of a spoiled brat who learns to know many things, besides that money can't buy happiness.
Review: Great Expectations is Dickens's 13th novel, written in first person narrative. Phillip Pirrip-Pip is the narrator of his own story, in which he exhibits the growth of personality.

His story begins with a mournful impression – the foggy...
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  5.0

by: beesperanto
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Very inspirational and motivating
Cons
None
 
7 out of 7 people found this review helpful.

Masterful: witty, gripping, hilarious, & sad

Date of Review:  May 15, 2000
Review: It's so amazing how Dickens is able to establish his atmosphere and fill his world with characters just crazy enough to be credible. So much of fiction is filled with cardboard, indistinguishable characterizations, figures whose dialogue cannot be...
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  5.0

by: mm42
Recommended to buy: Yes

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characterizations, humor, insight
Cons
sentimentality, tragic/comic mix
 
24 out of 24 people found this review helpful.

Readers are full of Great Expectations and Dickens certainly delivers

Date of Review:  Jul 5, 2007
The Bottom Line: Great Expectation is a brilliant novel, full of vivid characters and wonderful settings. Unfortunately, the ending disappoints.
Review: This whole reviews reveals major spoilers that may detract your enjoyment of the novel if you haven't read the novel yet. Read the review at your own risk.

In the first chapter of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens pulls the reader in...
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  4.0

by: flipperoid
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Well-developed characters, great...
Cons
A very disappointing ending.
 
7 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Good Story But Dragged Out

Date of Review:  Sep 28, 2000
Review: I never would have read this book except that it was required for school. It has the classic plot: Rags to Riches. It is about a poor boy named Pip who is being raised by his mean sister and is being trained to be a blacksmith. One day he meets an...
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  1.0

by: Mambreno
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Good Story
Cons
Too much description, dragged out
 
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

a new cure for insomnia!

Date of Review:  Jan 20, 2000
Review: Ok ok ok, for some ungodly reason most High Schools in this country feel it necessary to slap this book into their curriculum. AHHHHH! I can honestly say this was one of the worst books I have ever read.

I am sure some people consider this...
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  1.0

by: joshuaak
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
um, it has words
Cons
the words are horrible
 
43 out of 43 people found this review helpful.

Great indeed!

Date of Review:  May 16, 2001
The Bottom Line: This book is excellent. It starts off a little slow but it is just Dickens building a plot and story that will make you a better person for reading it.
Review: I once attempted to read this book several years ago in middle school. It lacked the stimulus that my young mind needed to maintain focus long enough to get in to it, hence, it was shelved and other books such as "The Hardy Boys" and "Storm...
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  5.0

by: mpanderson
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Wonderful Dickens wit and prose with a...
Cons
starts off a little slow
 
2 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

great expectation is a pretty good novel

Date of Review:  May 20, 2001
The Bottom Line: Any one want's a exiting, suspensed story to read? this is the novel for you then.
Review: Great expectation. Well if you want to know if this book is good or not, i say it's pretty good. Even though people might say the words are bad, it gets boring at some times. It really doesn't have plots like that. For the readers who are just...
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  5.0

by: twbabyboi
Recommended to buy: Yes

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good story line, any reader would like...
Cons
too long for some people to read.
 
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

High hopes for Great Expectations!

Date of Review:  Jan 11, 2000
Review: Pip is a poor boy but he has high hopes. He doesn't intend to spend his life in the marshes as a blacksmith's helper. Someday he is going to move to London and become a gentleman. Pip already knows two rich people-Mrs. Havisham, the bitter old woman...
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  5.0

by: ironman_55
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Heart touching and beautiful!!!
Cons
Dialogue gets boring!!!!
 
125 out of 125 people found this review helpful.

Hey Dickens, stick a Pip in it!

Date of Review:  Jun 25, 2004
The Bottom Line: Most people would appear to have liked Great Expectations, but I sure didn't care for it. It was merely okay, as I expected it to be.
Review: I was in the mood for some fiction, just so that I could get a refresher as to why it is I dislike the majority of it. I was fortunate to not have to look far, resulting in my expectations being met, although, not in a great way. When I finished...
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  3.0

by: tch7
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
It accomplished the goal without much...
Cons
Long and pointless.
 

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