Great Expectations

Pros: Heart touching and beautiful!!!

Cons: Dialogue gets boring!!!!

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...

Pros: good story line, any reader would like it

Cons: too long for some people to read.

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...

Pros: Wonderful Dickens wit and prose with a powerful finish

Cons: starts off a little slow

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...

Pros: um, it has words

Cons: the words are horrible

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...

Pros: Good Story

Cons: Too much description, dragged out

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...

Pros: Well-developed characters, great writing style, gripping dialogue, and incredible storytelling.

Cons: A very disappointing ending.

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...

Pros: characterizations, humor, insight

Cons: sentimentality, tragic/comic mix

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...

Pros: Very inspirational and motivating

Cons: None

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...

Pros: Incredible development of the characters of Estella and Pip

Cons: None

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...