I was considering posting this in the Book Reviews thread, but I thought that either no one there would be overly interested or the very adverse in that there was already an exhausted debate about the book and lastly I love this group so I thought I'd start a discussion on it here. That is, if anyone wants too?
I'm only a third of the way through it but I'm reading at a steady pace every night so I should hopefully be finished it in a few days time. Until then, anyone else here read it?
Eimear
Great Expectations
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I keep trying to read it! But I usually give up after a chapter or so. Let me know how you like it once you've finished? Please? ^_^
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I assume saying that the plot thickens substantially (and thus becomes more interesting) isn't a plot spoiler.
It's a book that if you don't enjoy initially, you still need to make youself read, because you can only appreciate it when you've finished it.
I had to read it for English, and am pretty happy that I did.
If you enjoyed it, as well as looking up other Dickens novels and the rest of the genre, have a read of Mr Pip by Lloyd Jones.
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I didn't have to read it, I just heard so much of it from my sister that I liked it before I'd even seen a word of it. Now, I've fallen in love with it. I'll probably finish it tonight, and tomorrow I'll probably post my own critical essay- a short one, for the benefit of the other classics members who haven't read it yet.
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Sorry It's been two weeks since I've been active. A lots been going on. I finished the book- and I absolutely loved it. Now I'm reading Oliver Twist. The books are really influencing my writing, In a good way!
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I think that Great Expectations is one of Dicken's greatest books.
I love the development of the relationship between Pip and the escaped convict; and the twist about the benefactor, etc. I cannot read the end without finding myself in floods of tears.
I hated Pip's love interest though; Estella was so cold and so obviously disdainful for Pip; I cringed everytime she humiliated him or made him aware of his inferiority.
I've also seen the earliest film adaptation with John Mills and thought it was excellent, far better than the one with Ethan Hawke.
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