Pros & Cons
Pros
Great expectations is a page turner. The cover design is nice, the pages are off white but pleasant for reading. The book is a haunting late novel.
Estella is the ward of miss havisham, who received a heartbreaking disappointment when her fiancé left her at the altar.
Ge has a lot of structural similarities to david copperfield, but david was always likeable, even when he was trusting the wrong friends and pursuing the wrong woman.
Cons
Amazon needs to refund prime members on the island and update their policies concerning pr or give them equal consideration. I find it very tedious and slows my reading to a crawl. No meaning. Nothing worth discussing.
I see were dickens was trying to go with the suspense, but it just made the book monotonous and boring. Rather than buying this book, it is advisable to buy the essential charles dickens' by the same publisher in which the text size is larger and comf... Read More
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Quality
It was a great story, i enjoyed it very much and was surprised with the ending.
I was so impressed with the way in which dickens wrote this!
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I had hoped to receive the same book that was advertised on amazon instead i received one with a different cover
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It has the same isbn but i guess they must have run out of the 150th anniversary edition
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Dickens’ good judgments of the “goodness “ or “badness “ of characters is not consistent as some who seem to be bad are eventually seen as being more complex while at least one “evil” character has no redeeming qualities
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I missed out on much the story had to offer
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I haven’t read much dickens before and have never read one of his longer works
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Someone i know considers dickens the best novelist in the english language
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Before reading this i was hesitant to agree
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Now that i’ve read great expectations i think one could make an argument for that