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... to looking for a job. Two knocks on doors and two doors opened and let me come in. No offers yet, but this is beyond my Great Expectations. heehee

... a friend of Chinua Achebe's. This book is important to Nigerian culture, so I enjoyed my little glimpse into their world. Great Expectations- a longtime favourite of mine. There are so many themes to explore, but mostly I enjoy looking at the varying ways friendship is portrayed throughout the ...

Oh that's too bad! While I don't actually love Great Expectations, I did quite enjoy it. As for suggesting some other Charles Dickens book my favorite is The Pickwick Papers but it is a really, really long book, definitely not a quick read.

... Daphne Du Maurier The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Phillip K Dick Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Hard Times, Charles Dickens Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky The Shark Net, Robert Drewe The Name of the Rose, Umberto ...

... Jan) 10. Perfume by Patrick Süskind (Read Jan) 11.The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 125 (Read Mar) 12.Great Expectations by Charles Dicksons 876 ((Read Mar-May) 13.The Nose by Nicoli Gogol (Read Mar) 919. online (Read Mar) 14.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins G ...

... exclusively. I'm looking forward to reading The Lions of July which has been on my shelves for a few years. Great Expectations by Dickens and even something as light as Child 44 (albeit it was "longlisted" for the Booker). I bought my father-in-law a copy of Cultural Amnesia ...

... in 2010! So, should my next book be Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son or Martin Chuzzlewit or perhaps a re-read of Great Expectations?

... it stays like that, because I remember having struggled with difficult and obscure passages in A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations.

Dickens is one of my favorite authors. I've enjoyed reading Great Expectations immensely. Hope you like it too. I too have an extensive ebook collection on my computer but I do not own an ebook reader yet. Maybe some day I'll get one of those but I do like having an actual book in my hand.

... story before I start my 50th, which will be J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century, and then I shall start a new 50 with Great Expectations. A good friend spent the better part of a year reading Tad Williams' mammoth Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy per my recommendation (it's actually four ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - read about 10 years ago and didn't think it was great

... 2 from the library so I could see what happened Next (inside joke). It was just as good, and now I just may have to read Great Expectations 118. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte I hadn't planned to read this just yet, but while reading volume 3 by Jasper Fforde, they spent a chapter in ...

... Wuthering Heights, The Woman in White A House to Let, Little Dorrit, The Moonstone, Far from the Madding Crowd, Great Expectations, Dracula and the list goes on and on and on…

... than to Trollope. Favourites Bleak House and Pickwick Papers which are magnificent in totally different ways. Great Expectations is, I think, the most nearly perfect novel - I can't really think of anything that doesn't work - having to publish in weekly, rather than monthly, ...

... character, but there is one in particular that I have identified with more than any other. That would be Joe, from Great Expectations. When I wrote letters, I'd sign off with "E.B.F.", (and then sign my name). In the book, whenever Joe left the scene, he would say "Ever the best of ...

... it a second chance. We'll probably continue to play things by ear and either choose a book together (we're considering Great Expectations for our next read) or alternate and let him pick, then me. We used to sometimes read the same book, each of us on our own, and then discuss it, but ...

... Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 4) The Murder of King Tut - James Patterson 5) A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini 6) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 7) The White Queen - Philippa Gregory 8) The Likeness - Tana French 9) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri 10) Rebecca - Daphne du ...

I hesitated to answer this question because I've only read A Christmas Carol, Bleak House and Great Expectations, but I think that even if I read everything by Dickens, Bleak House will always be my favourite. I studied it and wrote about it a couple of years ago and that always enriches ...

Hi, Kathleen! Just found your thread. Read a few of the same books as you have. Not much Dickens, though I did read Great Expectations at the beginning of the year. Wasn't that fond of it. Arubabookwoman (in the 75-book group) loves Dickens if you want someone else to talk Dickens with you. ...

... Austen - Sense and Sensibility Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - Nicolas Nickleby Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol and Two other Stories

64. From my TBR pile- Didn't knew I had Great Expectations by Charles Dickens It took me a long time to read this. Though I usally enjoy Dickens I coudn't get into this one. I just didn't connect with Pip. For some reason I felt like I was reading the Great Gatsby in ole England.

66. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens I didn't enjoy this book as much as I've enjoyed other books by Dickens. I never connected with Pip and found him shallow and trite. But the glimps into the life style at Dickens time was worth reading the book.

... Pip by Lloyd Jones which introduced me to a part of the South Pacific world I knew little about (Bougainville Island). Great Expectations played a major role in the tale.

I've started Gormenghast which, coming as it does directly after Great Expectations in my reading pile is an interesting contrast. Myself and my better half have started a bookswap principal that we each read what the other has just finished, meaning the pairing is completly accidental. It's ...

... Steven Galloway 81. The Bad Quarto - Jill Paton Walsh 82. The World According to Bertie - Alexander McCall Smith 83. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 84. Inferno - Dante Alighieri (trans. Dorothy L. Sayers) 85. Blest Atheist - Elizabeth Mahlou 86. Money for Nothing - PG Wodehou ...

... World in Eighty Days 862 The Moonstone 863 Little Women 868 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on Mount TBR 876 Great Expectations 880 The Woman in White on Mount TBR 887 North and South on Mount TBR 892 Cranford on Mount TBR 897 The Scarlet Letter

... Two Cities), revoltingly mawkish (A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist), and grindingly overwritten (Our Mutual Friend, Great Expectations).

Audible UK are offering some unabridged classics for £4.99 until the end of September. Stuff like Vanity Fair, Emma, Great Expectations, etc...

... Thomas Hardy. It depends how much romance in a book you think makes a book into a romance. You could make a case for Great Expectations, or Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, or Victor Hugo's Les Miserables. And there are indeed quite a few male writers writing Harlequin/Mills and Boo ...

... 2) 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible (numerous times) 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy (2 or 3 times) 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ...

Work reading: Just finished Great Expectations by Dickens and next up is Song of Kahunsha by Anosh Irani. Transit/Home reading: Either A Nation of Farmers or Ubik depending on my mood.

>48,50 Yes, if you changed the algorithm to ignore the false/obscure link between Great Expectations and Western Australia, it would also fail to show up in "Australia, convicts, fiction", where it is definitely relevant (if a little peripherally). And false positives are less of an evil in a ...

... long book, but it is a much easier read than you might expect. Much better, IMO, than Dickens' other supposed masterpiece, Great Expectations.

... experience came from too much enthusiasm. I had an 8th grade English teacher, who was English born and bred, force feed us Great Expectations. It was just too early for me and I couldn't understand her unbound joy over the book. I thought she was just weird. So, I also thought the book was ...

... by Isaac Bashevis Singer 5. The Family Book of Best Loved Short Stories edited by Leland W Lawrence 6. Great Modern Reading edited by W. Somerset Maugham 7. A Question of Death by Kerry Greenwood 8. Last Tales by Isak Dinesen 9. The Picture of Dorian Gray ...

... tendentious twaddle. when did you last read a Dickens novel? 2001. Great Expectorations. Oh dear, oh my, I meant Great Expectations, of course. AWFUL. The penny-a-word prolixity never more evident. There is something very Dickensian about your online persona Oh hell! I ...

Classics 1.Great Expectations in process from original list 2.Anna Karenina from original list 3.Crime and Punishmentfrom original list 4.Jane Eyrefrom original list

I havn't read Great Expectations but I am readin The Purple Emperor

I haven't read Oliver Twist but I have read Great Expectations

I've just started diving into Bleak House by Dickens. I loved Great Expectations in high school, so we'll see how this one goes...

... appreciate The Odyssey and The Iliad, the Divine Comedy, The Canterbury Tales, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, etc. These works have engendered progeny--some ephemeral, some which have themselves stood the test of time. It is almost axiomatic that the objects ...

... rios: A few suggestions of books in the same vein as The Good Thief would be Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow, or The Cider House Rules by John Irving. Brady 43: I was raised Catholic and went to Catho ...

Hola Kathleen. A Tale of Two Cities will be a reread for me as will be Great Expectations. My book club read this both this year. I have never read Edith Wharton before.

I am currently reading Life: A Natural History by Richard Fortey. I am also re-reading Great Expectations.

... Dickens phase, and am just starting "Bleak House." Some of the other books I've read this year are: Oliver Twist Great Expectations In Harm's Way The Time Traveler's Wife Atlas Shrugged A Tree Grows in Brooklyn The Tin Roof Blowdown The Guernsey Literary and Potato Pee ...

... names. It was wonderful to have all the holes filled in so to speak. I also second A Tale of Two Cities. I recently read Great Expectations. It is good, but doesn't have my heart like David.

... In Time by Madeline L'Engle 3. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 4. The Stranger by Albert Camus 5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 6. The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis 7. American Gods by Neil Gaiman 8. Winnie The Pooh & The House At Poo ...

... Hero by Perry Moore 8. Tower of Glass by Robert Silverberg 9. The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss 10. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (this is the one my co-worker insisted I have to read)

I've read Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations and David Copperfield. Oliver Twist is a fairly easy and entertaining read, so that would be my first choice. A Christmas Carol is a classic and a very quick read, but you already read it :). Great Expectations was ...

... #40 Kirby what did you think of theat book? I'm pretty sure I have it on my Amazon wish list. I am almost finished with Great Expectations and am planning to start Founding Mothers when that is finished. I also have to find time to read a member give away book I recieved electronically, ...

... and Prejudice 940. Sense and Sensibility I love Jane Austen, probably my fav is Emma Charles Dickens 876. Great Expectations 883. A Tale of Two Cities 888. Hard Times 913. A Christmas Carol A must read..but not a great read 917. Nicholas Nickleby Snore... 918. Oliv ...

Hi everyone! I am currently reading Great Expectations, but when I am finished with that I am going to start on Founding Mothers, The Women Who Raised Our Nation.

... for another hot review, this one for her comments on John Adams. And, congrats to Rebecca Ann for her hot review of Great Expectations!

Congrat's Rebecca, it was an excellent review and I have added Great Expectations to me wish list. I've been on a exercise/eat better kick lately too. I wonder if the summer has anything to do with it. I vegetate during the winter and by April I know I've got to begin walking outside again. ...

... Better for me and for my her :P By the way, I just wanted to shoot a quick thank you to all of you who gave my review of Great Expectations a thumbs up and got me into the Hot Reviews section! It means a lot!

... with everyone having their own favourites :) happy reading! 1. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 2. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 5. The Mill on the Floss – Ge ...

... border:1px solid black src=http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/5a/a7/5aa785b6a26fa8a5931734d5367434d414f4541.jpg> Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Rating: 5/5 Wow. Just...wow. I can't even begin to explain how good this book was. But I'll try :P For those who don't know ...

I'm almost through Great Expectations and as soon as I'm finished with that book, I'll be digging into The Dark is Rising. I'm excited! It looks excellent! Edited because I left out several nouns, which are necessary to understanding a sentence.

... finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and also Whoredom in Kimmage. I recently picked up a copy of Great Expectations at a local thrift store so I am now reading that.

Really? Heck yes!!! Ok, this is from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, page 44 Clue 1: Intelligent

... I haven't really been challenging myself too much. I went through some of my tougher books and have already started reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and will start (as soon as my book arrives in the mail) Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. I'm looking ...

Question: is there any evidence that being made to read Great Expectations or Lord of the flies actually discourages young people from reading other things? If not, then it isn't doing any more harm than the other unpleasant things one is made to do at school (play team sports, eat school ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; read it and saw the film

#73 RebeccaAnn Good luck with Great Expectations. This was the first Dickens I've enjoyed, having read it a few months ago :-)

I just started Great Expectations by Charles Dickens yesterday. I, probably like most students, disliked the forced reading I had to do of him in high school but I figure it's been six years since that dreadful class. It's time to give to him another chance and I find myself quite enjoying ...

Is it Pip from Great Expectations?

Hello there! reading both, Great Expectations (Charles Dickens of course) and Breaking Dawn (you know by who)...I know...weird mix...

... Stephen King at around 16 and The Stand is one of my favourites, I also love It and The Shining. I would suggest Great Expectations by Charles Dickens for the classics, not to mention Pride and Prejudice and Little Women. I just finished the House of Night series so I would ...

Finished up Great Expectations yesterday, so I'm going to attempt another Dickens, Bleak House, we'll see how it goes.

Good for you! I read Great Expectations in junior high for English class and I was still at the stage where a book had to have a happy ending. I remember being upset that the ending was not what I pictured as 'ideal'. I've been wanting to read it again as an adult. I'm sure I'll get so ...

... surprised how many grammatical and spelling errors made their way through to the final print. hmm...nobody here liked Great Expectations?

Thanks Carmenere! Good luck on yours! 42. Title: Great Expectations Author: Charles Dickens Publisher: N/A Pages: N/A Date Started: 7/8/09 Date Finished: 7/14/09 Genre: Classics/Brit Lit Other Information: gutenberg.org Th ...

#142 But surely Great Expectations as the Bible means that we are required to read it? Something which I am not sure I can bear!

>141 I rather fancied Great Expectations as the Bible of the Anti-Dickensians. What better evidence that his "writings" should be prevented from distribution under the US Constitutional provision against cruel and unusual punishments can one conjure?

Bib, I love the story of Great Expectations. There are parts where I wish Dickens would get on with it already, but I love the story.

#56: Yep! I don't know if I've mentioned that I'm on PoA now. I'm also reading Great Expectations on gutenberg and I'm actually enjoying it! The first Dickens I've liked!

... ! The Hamlet Sometimes a Great Notion All the King's Men Walden At Swim, Two Boys Middlesex Semaphore Great Expectations Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence

Both A Christmas Carol: The Graphic Novel and Great Expectations: The Graphic Novel have been received AND REVIEWED by me (list says they haven't been reviewed?!) Also the book image is wrong.

Out of the work I've read recently I'd start with Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Great Expectations or Of Mice and Men...........They are all great, thought the first and last are my favourites for totally different reasons......Happy reading

... when it comes to folios. Only yesterday did I win a bid for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and the current leather bound Great Expectations all for £28.49 and, if that wasn't enough, FREE postage! Now you can't say fairer than that, can you? ;-) However, even though you can buy many OOP ...

... you agree / disagree with the inclusions :) happy reading! 1. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy 2. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens 3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 5. The Mill on the Floss – Ge ...

Finished Great Expectations, the first Dickens I've enjoyed. I'm now looking with interest at all the others on my bookcase. In amongst my other reading I read Of Mice and Men yesterday, wow, what a powerful book. I'm still thinking about it today. One of my favourites. My daughter read ...

I think the beef a lot of people have with Dickens is that they were forced to read him in high school, and Great Expectations is hardly best judged by a 9th grader who'd rather play videogames. Now, while I didn't particularly care for Great Ex, the man has written such amazing stories as A T ...

... After reading Milton and Conrad, reading that little volume was pure masochism. I also read -- and mostly forgot -- Great Expectations That said, I'm willing to give Dickens another shot. I want to check out Dombey and Son and Barnaby Rudge, the latter about the anti-Catholic ...

I'm deep in the last 100 pages of Great Expectations and now thoroughly enjoying it. I've just started this morning Captain Corelli's Mandolin and last night as a long term read Team of Rivals That's it, three is my limit :-)

... have another go, putting part of my previous dislike down to my dearth of classical reading. Hence I'm half way through Great Expectations that, to date been more enjoyable and definitely not a chore. As a light aside I'm also breezing through The Wind in the Willows to knock another ...

... in the classics, here are some of my favorites. For the Classics, I'd recommend Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain (or anything by Twain -- he's fun). For science fiction (I don't know ...

There seems to be a real agreement here on which way to go next ... I've only read great expectations and a christmas carol by Dickens, but I'm starting to get his complete works in a fortnightly collection (I'm terrible for being suckered in by Marshall Cavendish I'm ashamed to say ...) and I ...

... 08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson (1/01/09) 07. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1/02/09) 08. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (1/04/09) 09. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Socie ...

... have lacked the moral support! Like some of you have mentioned, I haven't read a lot of Dickens. I've only finished Great Expectations, but that was years ago and I've been unable to successfully complete any other Dickens since!

... Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 18 Catcher in ...

I accidentally purchased a used copy of Great Expectations instead of Bleak House for an LT group read (shakes fist at Amazon's dubious search results and my own lack of attention). So that arrived today along with a copy of Ella Minnow Pea, which I did mean to buy. :o)

I was not on the fence for many years. An eigth grade English teacher forced a reading of Great Expectations. I hated it and refused any more Dickens. When I married, my wife came to the marriage with a whole bucket of Dickens. As I tossed them onto our shelves, I sneered and mocked. After 10 ...

... bring myself to type the first word that sprang to mind! :) >260 Stasia, further to discussion on Dickens. I have Great Expectations: The Graphic Novel to read from the Early Reviewers programme. Up next after The Virginian which I am loving so far. I can sense five stars coming on. ...

... a chapter every 4-5 days while reading other things and carrying on with life. ;) His thumpers like Bleak House and Great Expectations work well that way. I took a whole month to reread "Bleak House" that way not long ago. *hiding rubber hose behind back*

Don't go with the later books like Great Expectations or Our Mutual Friend. They are brilliant once you KNOW Dickens' style, but the number of plots and characters are too confusing for beginners! I would recommend The Pickwick Papers for comedy, or David Copperfield - it was Dickens' ...

... mayhaps spoil the fun for the uninitiated. Instead of Love Story, consider any book that as affected you powerfully. Great Expectations is a beautiful example. Let he who accuses me of being anal retentive cast the first thousand books.

... a more realistic picture of Victorian England. If you're going to follow CliffordDorset's advice, make sure you've read Great Expectations first, otherwise you'll miss the point of Carey's book. If you haven't tried them already, you might like to read some of the original Sherlock Holmes ...

... language and period plot. I was anticipating a page-turning cross between Sarah Water’s Fingersmith and Charles Dickens Great Expectations. But the story was slow to reveal itself, and had a tediously plodding, linear plot-line that was unsatisfying and contrived and not at all suspenseful. ...

... the list above). 101. after the quake 102. Return of the Soldier 103. Jacob's Room 104. Vile Bodies 105. Great Expectations 106. Parades' End 107. Veronika Decides to Die 108. Where Angels Fear to Tread 109. The Shipping News 110. The Graduate

... pretty sophisticated sensibilities. Others read for the first and only time such undisputed classics as "The Tempest", Great Expectations and Valley of the Dolls. And anyway, what's wrong with nostalgia? A book that makes a powerful impression on an unformed mind still might have ...

In Mister Pip I actually thought that reading of Great Expectations gave the children solace. I also liked the way the adults were encouraged to teach the group of children something of themselves. I'm all for solace in a tight spot, especially when there was nothing the children nor their ...

... through his stories; and, of course, all that talk of books. Here we start with an interesting variation of Dickens' Great Expectations, move along to a story that hints a the supernatural, but doesn't seem to quite cross that line, than suddenly we're in a thriller and then an ending ...

... this exponentially more hilarious than The Eyre Affair. Mrs. Havisham is definitely the best part here. I've read Great Expectations, I know the character and thinking about her stomping around other books and loving fast cars with huge engines makes me giggle. There's a scene with Mrs. ...

... this exponentially more hilarious than The Eyre Affair. Mrs. Havisham is definitely the best part here. I've read Great Expectations, I know the character and thinking about her stomping around other books and loving fast cars with huge engines makes me giggle. There's a scene with Mrs. ...

... top, but keeps on getting pipped at the post by bookrings (I thought his Underworld rather magnificent), Jack Maggs and Great Expectations are both on the bookcrossed TBR piles, and A Fraction of the Whole is taking up a sizeable proportion of Mt TBR. It's one of my Set It Yourself ...

... novels I've read, look forward to hearing what you think about it. I finished Jack Maggs a fun read after reading Great Expectations just loved the characters. Now half-way through the Boy in the striped Pyjamas a very good YA lit read, the movie is also doing the rounds in the ...

... ironic tone, swinging from the macabre to the irreverent with the flick of a clause. KimB>>> Congrats on finishing Great Expectations! - a very speedy read compared to my long trawl through Anna Karenina. I read Dickens' novel back in first year uni, and got Mister Pip for Christmas ...

I've finally finished Great Expectations took me over a month!!! Tho' I did read 4 other books that I owed to other bookcrossers during the same month. The story is wonderful and the characters, but I didnt think that the language and expression of Dicken's writing would slow me down so much. ...

... to pick up White Teeth now that you've said you've started it but I might stick to my plan. I've finally finished Great Expectations! Now reading Jack Maggs and I'm afraid I'm enjoying it more than the original story. I should finish it soon and I'll offer it up as another one of ...

... will be an LT surprise gift (Read Apr) Of these I think that The Gift of Rain is the one that I would rate highest. Great Expectations seemed to not be a good choice for my night time reads the Dicken's language lulled me to sleep earlier than I would have wished so I didnt read as much ...

My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List.

... 08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson (1/01/09) 07. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1/02/09) 08. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (1/04/09) 09. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Socie ...

... food. I don't know how many times I've read each of them. I loved Mister Pip too, and it almost had me re-reading Great Expectations which was one of the books I studied in English Lit, but I didn't. Too many other books I haven't read yet. I've just read three books that I've ...

Miss-Owl I loved Mister Pip. I know the Great Expectations story, from various TV series, but the language of Dicken's time generally lulls me to sleep. Though, every now and again a passage of writing really grabs my attention. I find it much easier to read if I can read a little during ...

... you get home. pinkozcat: I loved that review! More please... no need to delete for me either! KimB: all the best with Great Expectations... if it's anything like my reading of Ms Karenina than the pride you will feel when finishing is enormous :) Btw, have you read Mister Pip? wookiebe ...

... Birthday to miss boo. fairy-whispers>>>>> All those plague reads look very interesting :-) I'm still on Great Expectations sometimes only reading 3 pages a night....it seems to be my Anna Karina type of read. It is taking me sooo long to get through it. I dont think I'll ...

... on a island (later identified to be in the Solomons) ends up teaching school when the island is racked with war. He uses Great Expectations as his major written text, and the village adults as a form of walking/talking references. When soldiers discover that "Pip" is a missing male in the ...

I'm weighing in at 22. To Kill a Mockingbird The Bible Nineteen-Eighty Four Great Expectations The Hobbit Catcher in the Rye Great Gatsby Crime and Punishment Grapes of Wrath Chronicles of Narnia The lion the witch and the wardrobe Animal Farm Da Vinci Code H ...

... think it wouldn't kill teachers to recommend books like this to students. I am much more entertained by them than I am by Great Expectations or Julius Caesar.

I think it depends on whether you are used to long 19thC novels. If you are used to the shorter run, I would go with Great Expectations - it's probably the novel where Dickens got more things right than any other, and it's quite short. It is dark in tone throughout, but it has some of the ...

I've read 8 of the 10; not Atonement, though I did see the movie! and not Great Expectations, though lots of other Dickens. But the last book I finished was Twilight. Not great literature, but there's something in there that has all those teen girls in a lather. Possibly the fact that Edwar ...

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... history …” nor am I terribly interested in trying to fake it. I am not a “model reader”, I am much more a Denby (Great Books), teetering back and forth between whole hearted engagement with the work as it is, on its own terms, and intruding myself, my life and my meanings into the ...

Sounds like Pip from Great Expectations.

... except A Tale of Two Cities and A Christmas Carol, neither of which are really typical of his work. In the fall I read Great Expectations, which was great, and I recently finished Twist, which I liked even better, though it had some irritating issues: 1) yes, the middle class are skewered, ...

Just received Great Expectations the Graphic Novel today in Brooklyn! Long in coming and several emails to the publisher but it's here and, on quick glance, looks great!

... ble 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of S ...

... ble 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of S ...

... ble 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of S ...

... 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works ...

... of the first novel and made Thursday more interesting. This time around Thursday's main companion is Miss Havesham from Great Expectations, who is a regular demon in any vehicle on the road. What a hoot! I enjoyed this book much more than the first and I give most of the credit to Ms. Sastre' ...

... to become the village's teacher, he is quite lost as to what to do, until he introduces the children to Mr Dickens through Great Expectations. Matilda and the other children become engrossed in the world of Pip, despite the vast differences between her world and that of Mr Dickens. The ...

... reading" you hated in high school that wasn't so bad ten years later? I suppose I should give The Great Gatsby or Great Expectations another try but neither one was "great" for me in high school. :-P 14. What is the strangest item you've ever found in a book? Probably book ...

My reading has slowed a bit over the past couple of weeks. I have taken a break from Great Expectations, eventhough I was thoroughly enjoying it and read a short Aus historical novel, Miles McGinty, such a sweet story a bit like a fairytale, similiar style to Eucalyptus. The Gift of Rain ...

... arc), I just haven't ever been able to really get into the chunkier ones. It's not all bad at least - "I have never read Great Expectations" can come in handy for family games of 'I Have Never...'. I know Stasia is collecting the Nonesuch Dickens so may be along to chastise me shortly ;-)

I was convinced that I disliked Dickens after trying, and failing to read Great Expectations twice. I had even tried to watch that Ethan Hawk movie that is based on the novel, but couldn't stand it either (although I'm not a fan on Ethan Hawk). This last Christmas though I read A Christmas Caro ...

1. Year of Wonders 2. The Forgotten Man 3. Great Expectations 4. Deception Point 5. The Defining Moment:FDR's First Hundred Days 6. The Handmaid's Tale

... 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas ...

36. Finally finished Dickens' Great Expectations. It was a slog, but on the whole it was a slog worth undertaking. Comments here on my 75 Challenge thread.

83. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens I've never been a Dickens fan. I loved A Tale of Two Cities, but I never managed to get to the end of any of the others until now. I found this book easier to read than I was expecting it to be, but still something of a slog in places. I can ...

... Heights- Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 ...

... s 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of S ...

... ell *9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (MM has read some of the first two and skimmed all of the last one.) *10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens *11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy *13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller *14 Complete Works ...

That would be a good call, IMHO. I enjoyed Great Books as well - this is nothing like it except it does serve as a vehicle to show his far ranging knowledge of modern culture and Athenian literature!

... Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation by David Denby Denby is film critic for "The New Yorker" and author of Great Books. This is a little book with his polemic rant about snark -abusive, nasty, tormenting, condescending and singularly knowing talk that is so pervasive. Snark is ...

I love Great Expectation but it took a bit of getting into the first time around - and I didn't actually read it until it was a uni set book. I'm not 100% sure what age equates with 7th grade, but it still sounds way too young for Dickens. The one I had to read at school age was David Copperfie ...

FicusFan -- what kind of sadist teacher would assign Great Expectations to the 7th grade? Sure, some of the high achieving kids would get some of it, but most wouldn't. That just leaves a bad taste for the rest of your life . . . I liked Great Expectations, and didn't mind reading it, but I ...

Sorry you had no freedom this month Nickelini. I hated Great Expectations. I had to read it in 7th grade. Dickens in general is a trial for me. I can't deal with the dialect. Its like going down the highway paved with speed bumps. I can't get into the rhythm of the writing. We had to ...

... everything I read I was told to read and I didn't fit in any fun extra-curricular books. For my book club, I read Great Expectations. I finished two heavy complex texts for school, Parade's End (Ford Maddox Ford) and Canterbury Tales (Chaucer). I rated Parade's End 1/5 stars and Can ...

... de Pierre by Moliere. Well, I really expected this play to be more humorous than it is (imo). I assume I had too Great Expectations, but all the same I'm prepared to read one or more play(s) by Moliere this year. I know some of them are great comedies. I wonder if Don Juan has got ...

... since I picked it up, though, so I must get back to it soon. Strangely enough - or perhaps not strangely at all - Great Expectations is having a similar effect on me.

... (I) Voices of Morebath - Eamon Duffy (II) Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett (III) War and Peace - Tolstoy (VII) Great Expectations - Dickens (VII) Inferno - Dante (VII) The Sweetheart Season - Karen Joy Fowler (IX) The Gargoyle - Andrew Davidson (IX)

Coming off Great Expectations, which did not rock my world, I swung way the hell in the other direction and am reading Infinite Jest. Jury's still out -- I might like more economic word usage but on the other hand DFW's making me a little dizzy with this one and dizzy's good. Despite his ...

Just starting Great Expectations and hope to read Jack Maggs after it. Jack Maggs is one of the few on the 1001 list that are written by an Australian. I'll be interested to see how it measures up. #125 Very tempted to read House of the Spirits, I just got a 2nd hand copy. How was ...

... and then about his fiancée's elopement with another man). I needed some light relief: I've got through 250 pages of Great Expectations, but it's a slog. Edited because a lack of coffee is no excuse for such execrable grammar.

I haven't read Great Expectations But I have read Impulse (most likely a repear)

I've never read The Grand Sophy, But I've read Great Expectations.

My favorite Charles Dickens is Bleak House although both Great Expectations and David Copperfield rate high marks from me also. I also think A Tale of Two Cities should be read--I enjoyed it but not as much as the other three. These four seem to me to be the "essential" Dickens (I'm ...

... tegory: 1. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury 2. The Girls - Lori Lansens I have 2 for Recommended Reading, too. 1. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 2. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea - Chelsea Handler So, that is 10 books so far! 71 to go... Oh yeah, all my choices ...

... Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens a few years ago and really liked it. I haven't read any other Dickens apart from Great Expectations at school many years ago. Touchstones not working

... Assassin. #8! Not my favorite Atwood by any means, but she is always worth reading. Also, I finished #9 and #10! #9 is Great Expectations. It was my first attempt at Dickens, and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I love classic language and literature. #10 is the antithesis of Dickens, ...

... of Two Cities. I was primarily outraged at having to read someone who was paid by the word. Recently I picked up a copy of Great Expectations and really, really enjoyed it. One thing about Dickens is that his books are a part of our unconscious culture, so that I was constantly coming across ...

I love many books The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and Great Expectations by Charles Dickens both quite high up but my two favorite books are Harry Potter and the Prisioner of Askaban by J.K. Rowling and Runaways-The Good Die Young by Brian K. Vaughan.

... I think that chucking names and values around should be a diverting enough parlour game in itself. How about Pip from Great Expectations: Attractiveness: 15 (out of 20) Luck: 9 (out of 20) - he hasn't done badly for himself, but then, unlucky in love. Guile: 3 (out of 20) - he's too ...

... language and in Norwegian) I haven't read yet. I know I should, but when.....? So far I've read Oliver Twist and Great Expectations, not very voluminous, but I surely like them, esp. Oliver Twist. Edited to add Kristin Lavransdatter as one of my all times favorites. (Shame on ...

16. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens British literature, 1861. I always find it difficult to comment on classic books--what is there left to say? Yes, I enjoyed this very much, thought it was well-done, etc. Unfortunately, I had to fit this 500+ page novel in between all my school ...

I hated Dickens for a very long time. Exposed to Great Expectations in the 8th grade.....too young, I think. Then I read A Christmas Carol a couple of years ago and loved it.....low hanging fruit really. So, I tried A Tale of Two Cities and have started to turn around. I am going to read ...

... thread earlier! I picked out a random Dickens, without input, with the potential of dire consequences. Luckily, it was Great Expectations so crisis averted! Ha. I have about 50 pages left, and really enjoying the surprising web between the characters.

I'm reading Great Expectations right now. If you're in the mood for a classic, I suggest it. If you're in the mood for something different and fun, hit up The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. You have a great TBR pile, by the way...

I'm reading The Blind Assassin as well. Not bad! I like The Handmaid's Tale more. I'm also reading Great Expectations and Treasure Island. I'm not sure how I began reading three at a time.. but I like the variety!

... The plot is gray... the characters are gray.... Shakespeare. ANYTHING by Shakespeare. I would rather clip my nails. Great Expectations. I'm fairly certain this was written just to torture people in h.s. Lord of The Flies. Maybe because I was forced to read it...? Atlas Shrugged. So ...

... March. :-) We're supposed to meet every month from September -June, but lately it's been more like every 6 weeks. I think Great Expectations was supposed to be the February book, but people got busy and we didn't meet until March. We're pretty relaxed. It's a great group.

Funny you should mention that . . . my book club is reading Mr. Pip for April. That's why we read Great Expectations this month. (I've had both in my TBR stack for ages, so it's all good for me!)

... of teacher, hoping to instill some form of knowledge in his students. Every day he reads one chapter of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations to the class. Matilda and her schoolmates become engrossed in Pip's world, despite the vast difference between a small island village in the 1990s, and V ...

Nickelini, since you just finished Great Expectations, you might want to try Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones, which is about a young girl, Matilda, living on an island off of Papua New Guinea. Matilda's teacher reads Great Expectations to the class, one chapter a day, and it comes to mean a great ...

BUT, reading Great Expectations makes Jasper Ffords's use of Miss Havisham's character in Lost in a Good Book absolutely priceless. But read the first in the series first, The Eyre Affair.

For a long time it was David Copperfield, but a few years ago it changed to Our Mutual Friend. Concerning Great Expectations, my problem with it is Miss Havisham - she's really creepy and she totally freaked me out when I had to read it in high school.

Well, I finished Great Expectations. Now I just have to finish the last 500 pages of Parade's End. Will be happy to close the cover on that one.

13. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Category: 1001 Books Comments to follow.

Recently started Dickens' Great Expectations. Never had much success getting into Dickens. We shall see.

>Luxx, I'm still waiting for Great Expectations the Graphic Novel as well. I did notice on their website however that the book was not being published until March, so this has given me some hope that it may still be on it's way.

Still reading the ones I've been reading for ever: Parade's End and Great Expectations. Hope I can post something else this month. What are YOU reading?

... Pip is one book that really should be on the list ;-) It is beautifully written and a very original story. I haven't read Great Expectations yet but I plan to this year. After that Jack Maggs is on my TBR list. This is a great thread, very interesting to see everyones impressions of Mr D's ...

... it so much that I just assumed Mr. Pip was listed. But Jack Maggs is, and it's a parallel but quite different take on the Great Expectations storyline. Talk about alternate endings...

... So, for example, if we consider what has made To Kill a Mockingbird, Madame Bovary, Ulysses, Silas Marner, and Great Expectations will we be able to come up with a formula?

... is called BLEAK House, after all. I was pleasantly surprised how not depressing I found it. I'm currently reading Great Expectations and you're right, it is lighter.

I concur completely with the suugestions of Oliver Twist or Great Expectations. We had to read Bleak House in the middle of our degree course and I must admit I found it quite heavy going after reading some of his other novels.It's (deliberately) far less ironic in tone & treatment, far more ...

... Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 21 Gone W ...

I never received Great Expectations the Graphic Novel from the November batch. Anyone else have problems with this title?

I'd go with Great Expectations ~ for its all 'round greatness, but also because it sets you up to enjoy two other books on the list, Mr. Pip and Jack Maggs, for which Great Expectations is a prerequisite.

... very long though and the sheer weight of the book is daunting. I found it to be a real page turner, though. I'm now reading Great Expectations and it's okay, but doesn't seem to have the magic of Bleak House. I think Oliver Twist seems like a reasonable choice, as Uffishread says, it's ...

... you will instead be filling in the gaps of a story you already know and seeing the details an adaptation glosses over. Great Expectations is my favourite Dickens I think but I might save it for later in a Dickensian odyssey, to be savoured when you are down with the Dickens. The Pickwick ...

The only other one I have read is Great Expectations. It is not so hard to read. However, I didn't care for it that much mostly due to the premise of the love story, but reading it was not a chore at any rate. With him I feel like you always have to keep in mind that they were written as ...

... from meant for a different time. None read this month are "Desert Island" candidates, but I did pop my head into Great Expectations for a few paragraphs today and I think that would be one I'd like to take. I think I'm with Jubby on taking other, as yet, unread classics. I'm just ...

... Austen encore, je tourne autour, mais chaque volume de Thursday Next m'en rapproche un petit peu. J'ai quand même acheté Great expectations tellement le personnage de Mrs Danvers m'avait frappé dans la série de Fforde ! Mais comme je lis des petits bouts de loin en loin, je n'avance pas ...

Although I'm still reading Parade's End and Great Expectations, I now also have to start Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh. All of this is assigned reading.

Me too. It is wonderful. Great Expectations, on the other hand, I have only read once.

... time travels with her father, tries to save the world, and learns to jump into books with help from Miss Havisham of Great Expectations. Her 'real' life is falling apart while her life within books gets better and better. I found myself wishing once again that I lived in a world where ...

... the French...). I should probably leave it there for now... Oddly, I feel no compelling need to read Dickens. I studied Great Expectations at A-level and think the fact that it didn't turn my life upside down has nudged him further down the list. Oh, and I want to read Cyteen because ...

... couple of my challenge lists for this year. Of course, it was one last year and I still didn't read it. I just mooched Great Expectations on the advice of my co-worker. That will be my first Dickens.

...and The Illiad, The Oresteia, Tom Jones, The Red and the Black, Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, Moby Dick, The Mayor of Casterbridge...

I finished Great Expectations and The Time Machine this week. It took me a month to read Great Expectations. Not sure what I was thinking reading Dickens with a 4 month old baby and going back to work full time!

... 2008 -- what a great list. I, too, was enchanted by Irving's "Tales." Wanted to mention that, since you recently read Great Expectations, I think you would enjoy a book I read last year called Mr. Pip. Anyway, thanks for some great reading suggestions. I'm going to pick up some Chekov ...

#19, Great Expectations clam? I love it. And The Old Curiosity Shop, of course, Bleak House is pretty darn good too, and then there's Nicholas Nickelby, those are my favourites of his. PBS is going to be starting dramatizations of 4 of his novels starting in mid-February, Oliver Twist ...

This month I'm finally reading one that has lived in Mnt. TBR for quite a while: Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens. It's my bookclub book for February.

... is nice. She is much more widely read than I am so it is nice to hear her thoughts. Her most recent suggestion to me was Great Expectations which sounded interesting the way she described it and I plan to read it. Of course, she is the one who gave me Love in the Time of Cholera which is ...

Surprise, surprise, I'm STILL reading Parade's End, Jacob's Room and Great Expectations. I feel I shall always be reading Parade's End, Jacob's Room, and Great Expectations.

... book shop I picked it up. The story of a country at war told through the eyes of a child and her fascination with Pip of Great Expectations.

150 and 151- I am still waiting for Great Expectations: The Graphic Novel, too. I also was selected for Jane Eye: The Graphic Novel in the October Batch. That arrived on January 8th. I expect it should be around the same time frame for Great Expectations.

I used to hate Dickens!!!!! Blame it on an 8th grade English (truly English) teacher who insisted on our class reading Great Expectations. I think I was too young to appreciate it. Because now.....I am trying him out a little at a time and enjoying it so far. Started with safe territory A Chr ...

... Papers and Our Mutual Friend. Of the others--off the top of my head--these are ones I can highly recommend: Great Expectations David Copperfield (but not back-to-back because they are rather similar--young boy coming of age in trying circumstances getting help from unexpected ...

... You said it's one of the few Dickens you haven't read, I'm curious what was your favorite? I've read Old Curiosity Shop, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friends and Oliver Twist...any other you'd like to recommend?

I'm still waiting for Great Expectations : the Graphic Novel Strange, as A Christmas Carol : the Graphic Novel came very quickly.

My current serious book is David Denby's Great Books, which I am definitely enjoying; I will be starting Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer for my R&R book this evening.

... Bird is at 13 Wicked: The life and time of the Wicked Witch of the West is 48!! Eventhough the touchstone won't load. Great Expectations is 61 Curious and Curious-er Not that I am a crowd follower (much) but this might be one way to bump books up the TBR pile. Oh and for the record ...

... by Jane Austen 932.(TBR) 3.Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe 985.(Read Feb) 4.Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. (TBR) 5.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Read Mar-May)

... Jan) 13 Perfume by Patrick Süskind (Read Jan) 14.The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 125 (Read Mar) 15.Great Expectations by Charles Dicksons 876 ((Read Mar-May) 16.The Nose by Nicoli Gogol (Read Mar) 919. online (Read Mar) 17.The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins ...

... bookring) F Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels. 1001 book.(Read) G Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Read) H I I know Why the Caged Bird Sings 367.by Maya Angelou (Read Mar) J

... Albom (Read Mar) 31.West Block by Sara Dowse (Read Mar) 32.The Memory Keepers Daughter by Kim Edwards (Read Mar) 33.Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (Read Mar-May) 34.Miles McGinty by Tom Gilling (Read Apr) 35.The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (Read Apr) 36.The List: A Love St ...

... assigned reading to do, so if I'm going to sneak in an extra-curricular read, it has to be really good. I also have to read Great Expectations for my book club in February, and its almost 500 pages. If I didn't have all of this looming, I would have stuck with it.

... other classics... Also, a little recommendation if I may: I see that you're planning to read The Old Curiosity Shop and Great Expectations by Dickens; I've read both and I must say that IMHO his Our Mutual Friends is better than both of them. Good luck with your challenge!

About halfway throught Great Expectations and hoping I have time to finish it, even though tomorrow is the beginning of spring semester.

... Mansfield Park not in this order and I'm also going to re-read Pride and Prejudice, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Great Expectations, A Midsummer Night's Dream (the next book I will finish), Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet. There are more but I cant find the list I wrote down! ...

anyone interested in The Little Friend, Women in Love, A Boy's Own Story, Jane Eyre or Great Expectations over here

... that last sentence: I mean that I feel that I have read The Arrival in just the same ways I would say that I have read Great Expectations or Rebecca. The pictures succeed at narrative just was well (or in the case of this story, better) than words would. I see graphic novels as ...

... sited Clockers Cry the Beloved Country Dr. Zhivago Dry White Season Election Endless Love Ethan Frome Great Expectations How Green was my Valley In Her Shoes Kite Runner Last Temptation of Christ Little Children Lolita Lord of the Flies Memoirs of a Ge ...

... of a Salesman The Lord of the Rings Frankenstein Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe The Godfather Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Fight Club Hilary and Jackie The Hobbit Howards End I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

... and personally, I'd recommend giving it a miss. Perhaps I'm psychic, but why is that creepy? I haven't read Great Expectations because, you know, Dickens sucks. ;-)

... now I am coasting through Georgette Heyer's first, The Black Moth. My brain will feel better soon and I can take up Great Books by David Denby. I will be posting TNOTR comments to my 999 thread in a day or two, after I recover.

... A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L'Engle Great Expectations Charles Dickens The Iliad Homer Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Cry, the Beloved Country Alan Paton ...

Children/YA 1) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 24/02/09 2) Great Expectations: The graphic novel 3) Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging Louise Rennison 27/03/09 4)Sleepovers Jacqueline Wilson 16/4/9 5) The book Thief Markus Zusak 6)the magic faraway tree enid Blyton July 2009 7) ...

David Copperfield and Great Expectations are two of my favorites too. I'll have to check the main library branch next time I'm there and see if they have a copy of the Nicholas Nickleby film.

... until they are exported to Australia - a lesser Britain, where social constraints are relaxed. I also really like Great Expectations and Bleak House, Hard Times and Nicholas Nickleby. Regarding Nicholas Nickleby, have you seen the film of the nine-hour stage version that was ...

... the name probably suggests to you), and Buckley identifies characteristics and examples of that type in English literature (Great Expectations would be a prime example).

... Novel or Book Award) The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson, Finished 5-15 (could also be horror or Book Award) Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Finished 06-02 (could also be historic novel or book award) The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Finished 08-26 Murder in the Rue Morgue ...

... for one club) War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (a continuing side read) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstory (side read) Great Expectation by Charles Dickens (side read) Sacajawea by Anna Waldo (a continuing side read) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (side read) No Country for Old Men ...

I third Great Expectations, I really enjoyed it.

... impossible not to like Dickens after such an introduction. If you're not up for something quite so lengthy, I second Great Expectations. Somewhat mysterious, definitely engaging, and has some of the best characters I've ever come across. Miss Havisham still gives me the creeps.

... you'll be able to really focus on (and savour) Dickens' language and style. I also throw my cap in the ring here for Great Expectations. I see you have a few Sherlock Holmes titles in your library; GE has a dark, ominous air of mystery overhanging the entire plot. That said, it also has ...

... tried to read Bleak House. I've thought about it several times and usually just end up rereading David Copperfield or Great Expectations instead. But it's very inspiring that you've finished it. Maybe I can tackle it this summer!

... in 35. Journey to the Center of the Earth 36. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 37. Notes from the Underground 38. Great Expectations 39. Madame Bovary 40. Agnes Grey 41. Jane Eyre 42. A Christmas Carol 43. Frankenstein 44. Persuasion 45. Pride and Prejudice 46. Se ...

37. Mill on the Floss, George Eliot, 1990's 38. Great Expectations, Dickens, 1969 39. Silas Marner, George Eliot, 1960's 40. Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev, 2008 41. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo, 1980's 42. Notes From the Underground, Dostoevsky, 1968 42. *Our Mutual Friend ...

... of Smoke. It's kind of having the book write its own review. Looking forward to your thoughts on the others you read. Great Expectations was the book that brought me back to Charles Dickens. I'm going to read another of his this year, maybe Hard Times.

... of books Bonnie - especially the Nadime Gordimer. I will look forward to hearing your thoughts upon the GLPPS! And Great Expectations - you have made an excellent start. My favourite Charles Dickens as well. I did enjoy reading your thoughts today - your excitement was almost ...

Bonnie, so glad you enjoyed Great Expectations. I received Penguin audiobook for Christmas and I listened to it this week - great story, especially when read by Hugh Laurie! *sigh*

7. Great Expectations. I was at my mom's over New Year's Day and couldn't access my account--terrible! Read this book online thanks to DailyLit.com--and the LT poster who mentioned it! :-) A bit annoying to get only a few pages at a time, but otherwise a great free service. (1/02/09) ...

3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Forgot to note that I read this and that I did it online through BookLit. (Sorry, I don't know how to link.) Whoever mentioned this website, I thank them! This story reminded me of old movies--how story telling has changed! Just an ...

OK, I'm going to give this a try. We'll see how well it turns out! You can go here for my blog post about my challenge. Totally reworked this as I can't seem to stick to my ...

... Lady of the Roses by Sandra Worth Daughter of York by Anne Easter Smith A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith Great Expectations by Charles Dickens London by Edward Rutherfurd The Silver Rose by Susan Carroll The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling Cracked Up to Be ...

BBC Radio 7 is featuring a 6 part radio drama adaptation of Great Expectations, commencing December 26, 2008. Each episode is available on their website for 7 days after it has been aired. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00g2v6p

... Last Enchantment Didn't know I owned- 7. The Three Musketeers read 10-05-2009 8. Don Quioxte read 1-11-2009 9. Great Expectations read 10-07-2009 Edited to correct title.

I got six new books from family this morning: Swann's Way by Marcel Proust Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Daughter of York by Anne Easter Smith A Rose for the Crown by Anne Easter Smith London by Edward Rutherfurd Lady of the Roses by Sandra Worth Edited to add: I also ...

... March 2 Anna Karenina Jane Eyre 70.Pride and Prejudice Finished August 27 Great Expectations 48. The Beautiful and the Damned Finished June 29th 72. Wuthering Heights Finished September 3 ...

You are definitely not alone. I've read Great Expectations and that's it. I stress my desire to read Dickens and my unability to do so in my review for this book. It's frustrating when you want to read a particular author and you just find that you can't do it.

Great Expectations?

... Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Death in Rome by Wolfgang Koeppen

About time I read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I finished Great Expectations (a reread) this morning. It is such a wonderful book! I have several books in my TBR pile. The Centurion's Wife from LT's ER program is up next. Probably The Graveyard Book after that.

I liked Great Expectations more than any other Dickens novel. I've just finished The Master and Margarita and strongly recommend it.

I liked Great Expectations more than any other Dickens novel. I've just finished The Master and Margarita and strongly recommend it.

#92 Great Expectations by Charles Dickens This is such a wonderful book.

>I'm rereading Great Expectations and finding it absolutely wonderful. I've read GE several times. I loved it even in high school, when I would never have admitted I did since everyone else was groaning about the length.

... - Dante Alighieri (Group Read, started 25/2/09, finished 6/4/09) 7. Julius Caesar - William Shakespeare (1-2/5/09) 8. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (finished 5/4/09) 9. Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf (finished 20/7/09)

I snagged Great Expectations: The Graphic Novel. I also got Jane Eyre last month. Early Reviewers is really helping me build up my graphic novel collection. Makes a girl happy.

I always liked Great Expectations because I related to it, but different opinions make the world go round, I guess. I'm done with Pickwick, which was a lot of fun if occasionally unbelievable. I'm now not exactly reading a Dickens book, but I am reading Dickens by Peter Ackroyd. It's ...

7. Classics 1. Little Women 2. Animal Farm 3. Great Expectations 4. Doctor Zhivago 5. Dracula 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9. To Kill A Mockingbird

... 08) 05. Strange as This Weather Has Been - Ann Pancake (12/31/08) 06. Tree of Smoke - Denis Johnson (1/01/09) 07. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (1/02/09) 08. Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet - Jamie Ford (1/04/09) 09. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Socie ...

Great Expectations the graphic novel for me - I'm still writing about A Christmas Carol- graphic novel - so I must get on with that!

... Glass 4. Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson 5. Moo by Jane Smiley 6. The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner 7. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 8. Borderliners by Peter Hoeg 9. The Effect of Living Backwards by Heidi Julavits 10. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith ...

>40 The Tortoise, Interesting! I also got Great Expectations The Graphic Novel a month after getting A Christmas Carol The Graphic Novel.

I love listening to audio books assuming the narrator is good. I'm currently listening to Great Expectations and it's wonderful! I would certainly give the audio version a try.

I'm rereading Great Expectations and finding it absolutely wonderful. I had to read this book when I was in the 7th grade for school and never could understand what was so great about it. I'm also reading The Devil's Eye by Jack McDevitt. I'm enjoying it very much.

I've only read Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens. Sounds like I need to read more of him, esp if I want to catch the nuances of the plethora of references to his works that one finds in literature. I am also a Simmons fan, so Drood is a highly anticipated novel for me. I ...

I've read A Tale of Two Cities and like it less than other Dickens novels I've read. My favorite so far is Great Expectations. But I haven't read Jazz.

... discuss to death, twenty essay question quiz" cycle that made me feel revulsion for the classics for the longest time. Great Expectations has my biggest hatred. Ugh.

... by Marion Zimmer Bradley 188. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris 189. The Compete Maus by Art Spiegelman 190. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 191. Live Bait by P.J. Tracy 192. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott 193. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

... by Marion Zimmer Bradley 188. Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris 189. The Compete Maus by Art Spiegelman 190. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 191. Live Bait by P.J. Tracy 192. Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott 193. Feast of Fools by Rachel Caine

Is it wrong that I wished for horrible things to happen to Pip in the cemetery in Great Expectations? >21 Mebbe... ;)

... a blind spot for me, I'm afraid - I was force-fed him at high school and developed an aversion - but I have recently bought Great Expectations and plan to give this what we call in New Zealand "a fair go".

... Legends of the Dark Crystal, Star Trek the Manga and An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde. My cat, Edgar, is enjoying Great Expectations by sleeping on it every night.

... did not read much at all this past week so I'm still reading The Devil's Eye by Jack McDevitt. I'm also listening to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

... Sweet Far Thing by Libba Bray (one of my abandoned books) The Host by Stephenie Meyer (another abandoned book) The Penguin Book of Summer Stories, ed. by Alberto Manguel (a third abandoned book) Kalifax by Duncan Thornton Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer Somet ...

... have in illustrating a text? The subject in question is an illustration by Edward Ardizzone for the Heritage Press Great Expectations. http://www.victorianweb.org/art/illustration/ge/ardizzone.html I have found Ardizzone's illustrations to be a mixed bag. His pen sketches for the ...

5. Books from the 1001 List 1. after the quake, Haruki Murakami (Jan 12) 2. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (Mar 4) 3. Parade's End, Ford Maddox Ford (March 31) 4. Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho (April 11) 5. The Graduate, Charles Webb (May 31) 6. Oranges are ...

... action-less prose can be tricky. (I think it's that reason that I never really made it willingly through Dickens Great Expectations or most Jane Austen novels. I just can't do it!) All of the Twilight books are pretty action-packed. Meyer's novel for adults, The Host is not ...

As a UK member, I'm happy with the selection. I requested Why the Long Face? (I like short stories), Great Expectations (enjoyed the film, always meant to read the book), The Flying Troutmans (wouldn't necessarily buy it but sounds fun, I'm always up for something I wouldn't have picked ...

Eon by Greg Bear Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Great Expectations by Charles Dickens How to be an Alien by George Mikes Inklings Handbook by Colin Duriez

In high school, I was forced to read Jude the Obscure, Great Expectations and 1984. In college, I was assigned Jane Austen's Persuasion for a freshman English class. I disliked all of these books. Coming back to them later in my life, when I had matured a little, I was pleased to find ...

... here). Also, Hemmingway's short stories are frequently considered his best writing. As for Dickens, I really enjoyed Great Expectations. David Copperfield is also frequently mentioned. I wasn't too keen on A Tale of two Cities or Hard Times. The "LT Literature Group Read" folks ...

... that I will ever read it again. Of all of Dickens that I have read so far, this one was the worst for me. I disliked Great Expectations much more, but this one - gawd, what a chore! All the coincidences! And Esther is so freaking good! And Tulkinghorn is so bloody bad! I don't know. ...

3. Classics Written by Male Authors 1. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (reread) 2. Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 3. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 5. The Sound and the Fury by ...

... top five: 1. Watchmen by Alan Moore 2. World War Z by Max Brooks 3. Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe

That's odd because many people think Great Expectations is his most perfect book. Possibly it's because the tone is so unlike his other books - Pip is so obviously ashamed of his early life and opinions that it casts a melancholy shadow over the a lot of the book. Though, surely you must agree ...

... House and Martin Chuzzlewit, I thought I was one of the world's biggest Dickens fans. Then I read Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and David Copperfield. As of now, I'm batting two-for-five, my first two at bats being a home run with runners on base and a solid, solid double. M ...

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... An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field by Terry Tempest Williams A Question of Choice by Sarah Weddington Great Books by David Denby The State of Women in the World Atlas by Joni Seager America and I: Short Stories by American Jewish Women Writers by Joyce Antler ...

... I read Hard Times in college, but all I remember is I didn't hate it. I remember feeling a little more negative towards Great Expectations that was read for a high school class.

Bib, Hard Times is a bit more fun to read than Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities. Those two can be so wordy sometimes, it might turn you off to Dickens, much as I love Great Expectations. Christmas Carol is great too, but I totally understand waiting until Christmas to read it! ...

#35 Bib I actually really disliked Great Expectations when I read it (if you liked Vanity Fair you might like it I think its cast of characters are much more shallow and dispicable than some Dickens) but I loved Hard Times which pokes fun at certain educational systems and is short and has, ...

... Somehow I managed to get through high school and college without reading any. Do I start with one of the "classics" like Great Expectations or Tale of Two Cities or should I do something I little less "High School English" and go with Bleak House or Martin Chuzzlewit. I'm open to any ...

... sci-fi/fantasy and never reads "literature". (Well, he did at school, and is still horrified that I actually *want* to read Great Expectations...) He's currently having fun re-reading our Dune series... ETA: Oh, have you tried the Nursery Crime series by Jasper Fforde? Less literature-bas ...

... The Old Testament The Bhagavad Gita The Tale of Genji Don Quixote The complete works of Shakespeare Candide Great Expectations War and Peace Be sure to check out numerous other discussions of lists at LT Groups such as "Books on Books" and "LT's List of Great Books You Should ...

Isn't Miss Havisham from Great Expectations? They are bits from Sense and Sensibility, which are the funniest because meetings are held between scenes from the book at Norland, and the most recent book First Among Sequels features an attempt to turn Pride and Prejudice into a reality ...

... Wonderland et seq. Jane Eyre The Count of Monte Cristo Little Women A Little Princess A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Sherlock Holmes stuff Romeo and Juliet Othello

... of Azkaban 2. Beowulf 3. P.S. I Love You 4. Cavedweller 5. Loverboy 6. The Jane Austen Book Club 7. Great Expectations 8. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Extra Credit 9. Journey to the Center of the Earth

Finished Great Expectations. Found it very enjoyable once I got into it more. Still Reading: Smoke Screen Friday Night Knitting Club and I'm going to start the short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for the final item in my Books Made Into Movies. I know it's short but I ...

55. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens A timeless classic, adapted to film, about an orphaned boy, Pip, reared by my sister and her husband, only to come into a large fortune by an unknown donor. Pip leaves his family behind on a quest to become a true gentleman and learn everything one of ...

... se Jude the Obscure Sense and Sensibility Jane Eyre A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen The Wings of the Dove Great Expectations The Age of Innocence

... order: Les Miserables The Black Tulip Northanger Abbey The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Odyssey Great Expectations The Histories Macbeth (do plays count?) Madame Bovary Moll Flanders Compiling this, I realize just how few of the classic novels I've read ...

... it through 7th Heaven in record time for a James Patterson I believe. Good story. Still reading Smoke Screen and Great Expectations. Also started Friday Night Knitting Club.

... Target, and can't wait for the next one. Are wedding bells in the future? Currently Reading: Smoke Screen Great Expectations Friday Night Knitting Club

... category. I'm finishing up 7th Heaven for James Patterson and Smoke Screen for my TBR category. I also started Great Expectations for Books Made Into Movies.

... Worlds by HG Wells Why I Chose It: 1,001 Books You Must Read Currently Reading: 7th Heaven Smoke Screen Great Expectations

... to my usual spot and snagged: Tips From The Old Gardeners The Romance of Tristan and Iseult The Misanthrope Great Expectations, an early 1900's edition Psychologie De L'Art (total score: a Swedish print edition from a private collection) and Complete Guide to Drawing From Lif ...

Yes to Great Expectations.....how about Silas Marner?

Yes to the House of Usher. I've just finished Great Expectations, so how about that? Surely an easy one.

Hated Great Expectations -- I had to use SparksNotes to finish it for school. I also was not impressed with Wicked. Madame Bovary dragged so much for me I stopped about halfway through, though I like Flaubert, and might try reading it in French. I've never been able to finish any LotR. I ...

Well, Great Expectations is finally finished. I enjoyed the story, but it took me a very long time to read. I'm blaming the tiny print on large pages (it was a Norton Critical Edition, if you can use that to gauge the size), so when I thought I was making good progress, I'd usually only read ...

Finally finished Great Expectations. It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, most likely because the print was very small and the pages were fairly large. Not a bad novel, and I did enjoy the story. 14/75 completed

I have Great Expectations for my time in 1800s England.

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Still trying desperately to finish Great Expectations by this Wednesday, but a one-volume edition of the entire The Dark is Rising series keeps getting in the way.

... going straight to the top of my personal library TBR pile. Up first, though, the books I have from the city library: Great Expectations, The Eyre Affair, The Book of Air and Shadows, The Year of Living Bibilically, possibly The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, and the entire The D ...

"I am ashamed to say it...and yet it's no worse to say it than to think it." Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "Have you seen anything of London, yet?"

"...an old rusty pistol, a sword in a scabbard, several strange-looking boxes and packages..." Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "Is that the exact substance?"

Just finished Simple Prayers this morning. I still have Great Expectations to finish in print form, and there's three different audiobooks going. I'm hoping to finish Great Ex today, but with the amount of work I have to do, it's more likely that The Year of Living Biblically (one of the ...

I'm bouncing between Pip's London in Great Expectations to fourteenth-century Italy in Simple Prayers.

Currently reading Great Expectations, and it needs to be finished by next week. Augh. It's a great book, but it's slow reading. My escape book is an audiobook of The Year of Living Biblically.

"No, indeed, my dear." Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "Why, what's the matter with you?"

"Yes! There!" Great Expectations "Where's your mother?"

"I don't like to say." Great Expectations "When shall I have you here again?"

... As for rereading books I didn't like, and then deciding that 'oh, well, this is ok really' it's only happened once: Great Expectations. I had to read it in high school and felt like I was going through brain torture. I then had to read it again at university. I remember gritting my teeth ...

... if I'll finish Atonement; it's very slow going, and I'm not crazy about McEwan's writing style. I'll probably move on to Great Expectations soon.

23. My Sister Guard your Veil, My Brother, Guard your Eyes 24. Great Expectations

Finished The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, so I'm moving on to Atonement and Great Expectations.

... a good book, though, and I'd recommend it, with the warning to pay close attention. Nothing is as it seems. Now, onto Great Expectations and Atonement.

I'm still reading The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin, but I should be starting Great Expectations soon. The former is an interesting book, if a little bit slow in spots.

... The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (May) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Jun) Up next: Probably Great Expectations 2 - NEW AUTHORS Someone Not Really Her Mother by Harriet Scott Chessman (Feb) Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson (Mar) The Thirteenth Tale ...

... it as Good, but not of the quality of most Easton Press offerings. But I also have a copy of Franklin Library's Great Expectations with the illustrations by F.W.Pailthorpe, which was a birthday present from my late wife over 30 years ago. That fact alone would make me cherish it, ...

9. The Complete Persepolis 10. Lipstick Jihad 11. tipping the velvet 12. fingersmith 13. great expectations 14. return of the soldier 15. three guineas 16. the biographer's tale 17. reading lolita in tehran 18. embroideries

... Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse, and God's Demon. When I'm done with at least one of those, I'll start on Great Expectations and The Kite Runner.

42. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - in true Dickens fashion, this story puts together the usual elements and themes: coming-of-age, poverty, cruelty, pride, arrogance, wealth, friendship, humility, memorable characters, idyllic countryside and dirty London. it is a story for both ...

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 2. Middlemarch by George Elioot 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4. Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun 5. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut And I'm looking forward to To kill a Mockingbird and David Copperfield

... totally overrated in general. My literary nightmare in high school - the recurring nightmare others described - was Great Expectations. I hated it the first time, and hated it more the second time I had to read it. Both times were during my freshman year. I switched schools midway ...

... for an interesting comparison. Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic - a challenging and unusual read Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - i love Dickens, what else can i say? and a couple of non-fiction Distant Voices by John Pilger - a collection of the ...

... Stout Washington Square, Henry James The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Honorable mentions go to Mary Poppins, Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World, The Time Tr ...

37. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (from the banned books list) I've only ever read A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations before this, but I think I can safely say that I'm a Dickens fan. His stories are decidedly creepy, and I like creepy, although Oliver got a bit irritating ...

... this is the only Austen novel I've never read. Since I don't imagine either of these are going to be long reads, I have Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights lined up. I recently discovered Feedbooks.com and am loving it!

I read Great Expectations (in Norwegian) three or four months ago, and I might read David Copperfield (in English) now. The introduction was interesting, I think.

... in the Virago collection. It's a morbidly humorous book. If books were music, one could describe Boston Adventure as Great Expectations, an opera written in a minor key for three tenors, two shrill sopranos, and one creamy coloratura diva. Basic storyline: Daughter of two poor, alcoholic ...

Hard Times by Charles Dickens. I really didn't like Great Expectations when I had to read it in high school, but maybe that was just because I didn't try very hard to read it. I think it had to do with the scarring of attempting to read Oliver Twist when I was seven years old. Because I ...

... visit. I am sure you will enjoy the other Dickens' you've got. As a matter of fact, I like all of them much much more than Great Expectations!! I will be interested in hearing what you think of them, once you have read them. I have not started The Age of Innocence yet, but I plan to do it ...

... Three days ago I received a box containing ("Collector's Library"): A Christmas Carol and two other Christmas Books, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and Bleak House. More than 4.000 pages !! Three months ago I read 'Great Expectations' in Norwegian ("Store ...

In terms of stuff we had to read in school, Great Expectations and The Great Gatsby both fell waaaay short of "great" in my mind. I was also unimpressed with Catcher in the Rye. Look at me, I'm Holden Caulfield and I swear a lot blah blah blah.... is that too harsh? I haven't read it ...

... the author. I adore Shakespeare but I think Julius Caesar may not be the best choice for High Schoolers. I did not enjoy Great Expectations and avoided Dickens for years but I picked up Hard Times and read it earlier this year and it was great, very funny. Sometimes I think you have to ...

Big Fish by Daniel Wallace Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Stuart Little by E. B. White The Big Dig (New England Remembers) by James Aloisi The Teeny Tiny Woman by Jane O'Connor

41. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes Rating 3/5 42. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (audio) Rating 4/5 43. Zwerg und Überzwerg by Christian von Aster For hundreds of years the dwarves have led more or less peaceful lives and focused on prospecting and ...

Great Expecations. It's the only one I've read so far (but I plan to read much more by Dickens) I'll soon receive some of his greatest works from The Norwegian Book Club (English editions): Bleak House, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol, Pickwick Papers etc.

Thanks teelgee!! I vote for Far From the madding Crowd, Great Expectations, or Wives and Daughters.

... hand! Here are my votes in order: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Mansfield Park by Jane Austen Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz Edited for touchstones not working ...

... by Naguib Mahfouz 2. Midnight's Children by Salmon Rushdie 3. The Red and the Black by Stendahl 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 5. Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell 6. Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

... but I hope we'll read some more of the great novels first (see #42). I suggested to read Bleak House because I read Great Expectations four months ago (in Norwegian), and I loved the novel, and will surely read more by Dickens (as a group read or 'alone'). By the way: My favorite ...

... Red and the Black The Scarlet Letter The Voyage of the Beagle and The Origin of Species Works by Edgar Allen Poe Great Expectations and Hard Times The Warden Jayne Eyre Wuthering Heights Walden and Civil Disobedience Fathers and Sons Moby Dick and Bartleby the Sc ...

Cariola - Great Expectations - my favourite Dickens! Plenty of scope for non English and Russian but where do we stop? I've just read an Assia Djebar book and would love to take on another one in a group ... the world is an oyster. And as for a play - I would be up for that with Shakes ...

Of those mentioned above, I would go for: Midnight's Children Wives and Daughters Great Expectations Trying to think of something a little different (i.e., not Russian or English), I came up with: The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass An Amer ...

... ) The Brothers Karamazov (Nor.) Pride and Prejudice (Eng. + Nor.) Madame Bovary (Nor.) David Copperfield (Eng.) Great Expectations (Eng. + Nor.) Bleak House (Eng.) To the Lighthouse (Nor.) Don Quixote (Nor.) Mansfield Park (Eng.) ------------------------------------------ ...

My suggestions for the time being: Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte David Copperfield by Charles Dickens Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Madame Bov ...

I really enjoyed Great Expectations. "Pip" says some really funny things.

My favorite has to be Great Expectations, but followed closely by Our Mutual Friend and then Little Dorrit.

... - 1st Q: finished The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky - 2nd Q: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe not worrying myself yet on choice for the remainder of the year...i've ...

... the same DDC numbers should be listed in alphabetical order by title (I think that's how it's supposed to work) however, Great expectations is listed after The Pickwick papers. I know it's a small thing, but but I'd prefer that my LT catalog matches my actual shelf order. Am I wrong about ...

... two Dickens novels I have with me here at school (the other being Dombey and Son). The only other Dickens I've read is Great Expectations, which I really enjoyed, though not as much as Bleak House. Whereas BH had it's moments of darkness alternated with funny or touching parts, GE was ...

... that I've read - and I agree, I'm stumped as to which to read next - I don't think I want to read the obvious ones (Great Expectations, David Copperfield, or Oliver Twist) just yet as I know what happens and the (very old) film of The Tale of Two Cities had me in such floods of ...

... BookMooch. For myself: Sophocles I Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Beloved Dickens' Hard Times and Great Expectations The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Billy Budd by Herman Melville Tell No One by Harlan Coben... I seem to be collecting his books, I ...

... ereuses Frankenstein The Last of the Mohicans (long time ago) Dead Souls Wuthering Heights Fathers and Sons Great Expectations Notes from the Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Possessed Anna Karenina Germinal (long ago) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (lo ...

Thanks, ejj1955. I didn't know that about Dickens' dad. It's just that Great Expectations left me with the impression that Pip never found what he was looking for in wealth, love, or life. Knowing the ending of Jane Eyre does make it a little better :)

... They just bored me to tears. As does most Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. Come to think of it, I never finished Great Expectations either. Hmm...I'm seeing a correlation here...books with G words in the cover don't fly well with me. (Especially the word Great, maybe I expect too ...

British classics A: Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope *read* M: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens J: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle *read* J: The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James A: Frankenstein, Mary ...

... endings--Jane does end up with Mr. Rochester (should I say, spoiler alert!?) and though I don't remember the ending of Great Expectations that well, doesn't Pip's life improve because of the money the ex-convict secretly provides him? I guess I'd even argue that most books are about the ...

I recently read Great Expectations by Dickens. I found it to be quite a depressing book. Though I never made it all the way through Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, I could say the same thing about that one. Why were these authors so sad?!

... unlike the 1st edition list, there will be fewer regional variations. Consequently, only 4 Dickens novels - Bleak House, Great Expectations, David Copperfield and Oliver Twist, are thought to be up to scratch, whilst novelists from Argentina to Belarus to South Korea are all included. O ...

... A Prayer for Owen Meany The Deptford Trilogy The Magus Jude the Obscure Life of Pi To Kill a Mockingbird Great Expectations As always with these lists, the problem is what to leave out, rather than what to put in. I've limited myself to one book per author which meant only ...

1. Don Quijote 2. Madame Bovary 3. Things Fall Apart 4. Great Expectations 5. Medea 6. The Brothers Karamazov 7. Pride and Prejudice 8. Tristram Shandy 9. War and peace 10. Molloy

... enjoyed The Scarlet Letter, which is another that doesn't go over well in high school. The only book I did not like was Great Expectations, though I can appreciate it more now.

... topic, this is something like the 4th book in a row that has referenced Miss Havisham. I think it may be time to re-read Great Expectations, haha).

... Nye Hamsun Samlede, bind 18: Den gåtefulle, Bjørger, Livsfragmenter February: Charles Dickens: Store forventninger (Great expectations) March: Milan Kundera: Romankunsten Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone dør, Den unevnelige Knut Hamsun: Nye Hamsun Samlede, bind 24: Fra det ...

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky Mysteries by Knut Hamsun Great expectations by Charles Dickens Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The Odessey by Homer etc. etc. etc. etc. :-))

Most probably know this, but Dickens was well known for dramatic readings from his novels. Wouldn't it be great to have experienced one of those?! http://universitybookstore.blogspot.com/2008/01/dickens.html

No. I had to read Great Expectations, but that's a novel. We didn't cover Poetry at all when I was in high school. TPBM can read music.

One of my all-time favourite novels is Great Expectations and, as my husband is not really a Dickens fan, I thought I'd try to convince him how great it is by reading it alound. Although I didn't manage to convince him, I remembered all over again why I love Dickens - the richness, the ...

#48 I finished Mister Pip a few weeks ago and thought it was a wonderful novel. I'm considering teaching it alongside Great Expectations. Last night I started First Love, Last Rites, a collection of short stories by Ian McEwan. Although I love most of his work written since Enduring ...

Re-reads. About 150 pages into the Penguin Classics Great Expectations. Just started Richard Tarnas' Passion of the Western Mind. One of my favorite non-fiction reads.

... you tell me the name of the larger work. So "Hitchhiker" has the characteristic of a series here, where the example of Great expectations published in many parts doesn't. As for 4, your point is correct, and I can only plead it was early in the morning when I posted it and I went back to ...

Sounds like the beginning of Great Expectations

... themes like for example Crime and Punishment which has a main theme the psychology of a man after he kills or perhaps Great Expectations where a key character basically freezes her mental development after being left at the altar. Or do you mean books that are consciously about psychology ...

> 45 Well, they're not the original monthly installments, but I do own Great Expectations in facsimile installments issued by Stanford University. They have done this with other works as well: http://dickens.stanford.edu/index.html

Johnny Tremain Great Expectations

Just my 2 cents worth, but Great Expectations might be better as a group read in the 'What the Dickens' group (although things have been a bit quiet over there of late).

... . . well if it turns out to be Middlemarch, please show up to the discussion with some of your brilliant insights. :-) Great Expectations is high on my to-read list too.

... way. So I'd be up for a faster read next time. Since I just finished and loved Mister Pip, I've been wanting to read Great Expectations, so I'll throw out that suggestion. Of the books mentioned in #30, I'd put my two cents in for Wives and Daughters or The Forsyte Saga, both of ...

Finished The Beleagured City by Shelby Foote. Planning to start Charles Dickens' Great Expectations on Monday. In the mean time I need to finish Lapman's Quarterly and two National Geographics.

... ; Travels with Charley (Read) Tender is the Night American Gods Classics; Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Read) Great Expectations Children's Books; The Story of Tracy Beaker (Read) Twilight Watership Down Black Beauty The Subtle Knife Non-fiction; Judging ...

My favorite Dickens is David Copperfield, closely followed by Great Expectations. My brother recently decided to start reading Dickens, and I recommended Great Expectations as the better one to start with, because it's, uh, a good three hundred pages shorter. (Same issue with Bleak House. G ...

... Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Carrie's War by Nina Bawden The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kippling About A Boy by Nick Ho ...

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is based on Jane Eyre Jack Maggs by Peter Carey relates to Great Expectations

Nicholas Nickleby, although its only a tad shorter than Bleak House. Otherwise, Great Expectations would be my pick.

... I'm not sure which one. Recommendations? Two caveats: I'd prefer something shorter than Bleak House, and I already own Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby and The Tale of Two Cities. Which one of these would be a good follow up to Bleak House?

... lot are old enough to have seen the musical, never mind reading the book :-) (I got it wrong too - for some reason I had Great Expectations in my head. Doh.)

... do Dickens, I suggest A Tale of 2 Cities. (I had to use the Arabic numeral to get the touchstone to work--strange.) Great Expectations has more critical acclaim, but "A Tale of Two Cities" seems to be one of those books that people absolutely adore. (Myself included. I read it in high ...

... ke> The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield Great Expectations - Charles Dickens My Name is Red - Orhan Pamuk In Cold Blood - Truman Capote Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood

... I don't have time to review it in depth; I would just say that I'd give it a four out of five and like it a bit less than Great Expectations. Book the 11th!

... Came Like Swallows by William Blake The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke The Essential C. S. Lewis

... than once is Oliver Twist. It might not even count as a novel since he wrote it as a newspaper serial. I also had to read Great Expectations in high school (I only remember the Havisham stuff) and Hard Times in college (I don't remember anything). I tried to read The Pickwick Papers once, ...

* why are we whispering* I did read Great Expectations in H.S. but I didn't enjoy it very much. The Ethan Hawke adaptation was very strange and didn't improve my opinon I think the easiest place to start Dickens is Hard Times or A Christmas Carol. They are both shorter and have less of ...

Ah I love Dickens, and great expectations is one of my favourites! I think it's unfair to penalise him for 'selling out' as, unlike in the Renaissance, Dickens had no patronage and had to be able to buy food! He wasn't from an upper class family with money and land, and he wrote primarily to buy ...

Great Expectations covers about 25 years, as does Tom Jones. Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne and The Waves by Virginia Woolf cover the same sort of time-frame in a more 'experimental' way. Thinking about these books, they cover the time-span by 'telescoping' in some way; eg plenty ...

How about: Stone Soup Sylvester and the magic pebble The Littles My kids love the Great Illustrated Classics-when they get older though, I definitely encourage reading the original Boxcar Children Berenstain Bears

... so far is so-so. Bleak House by Charles Dickens 01/11/08 A very long and tedious Victorian epic. I've only read Great Expectations perviously, and this Dickens' classic was certainly a come down after that superb work. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling 01/1 ...

... to begin with, and the conclusion was that it's better to start with Tale of Two Cities (why no touchstone??) than with Great Expectations. Look forward to following your reading year!

... am currently in the middle of three books and hope to have them read by end of Jan. Into the Wilderness by Sara Donati, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, and Thirteen Moons by Charles Frazier. My goals are not really to read more books, but more different books than I usually do. L ...

#4 Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. I wanted to read this for my library book club. They are doing Great Expectations, but since I have read it three times, I chose this related book instead. It tells of a teacher who uses Dickens' Great Expectations to teach life and literature to a group of ...

Yeah, I've never understood why Great Expectations is the one that gets read in schools. Why does the curriculum always pick the less worthy work of an author to tout as the pick of the canon? I find that this is not the case only with Dickens...

1 - CLASSICS I OWN 1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 4. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot 5. The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 6. The Bostonians by Henry James 7. The Secre ...

... and advice! People rave about Dickens all the time, so I want to give him a fair go for myself. In Year 12, I studied Great Expectations, and moderately enjoyed it, though never felt like picking it up when I wasn't actually reading it. Later, I tried David Copperfield and abandoned it ...

... tiffin! Now I have several more books for my wish list. I must get Mr. Pip, now that I finally know what it is about -- Great Expectations is the first Dickens I chose to teach to middle schoolers, and it never let me (or them) down. My Name is Red is definitely moving up a few places in ...

... Murray who was in 2000's Hamlet with Julia Stiles who was in The Bourne Identity with Chris Cooper who was in 1998's Great Expectations with Robert DeNiro who was in Sleepers with Kevin Bacon

... did not have David Copperfield? Chapters in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The only three Dickens books they had were Great Expectations A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities. What is the world coming to? Et, M. Dustin, bon chance avec le francais.

... In school I don't remember being exposed to many classics - I recall reading Silas Marner, The Scarlet Letter, and Great Expectations in high school, but no Austen or Shakespeare or Steinbeck or Hemingway. Even as an English major in college, there wasn't as much emphasis on classics as ...

... o 21. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick 22. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 23. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 24. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 25. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 26. American Psycho by ...

... by Patrick Suskind 7. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare 8. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens 9. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards 10. Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurr ...

... ohicans Lord of the Rings - yes, believe it or not, I've never read it A Tale of Two Cities Sense and Sensibility Great Expectations -I'm actually half way thru this but dropped it to read the Outlander series I'm going to read the following autobiographies: I married Wyatt Earp ...

... : Jane Austen -- all of hers Bronte sisters -- Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights Chaucer -- Canterbury Tales Dickens -- Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, Hard Times, David Copperfield, A Christmas Carol Dumas -- The Three Musketeers George Eliot -- Silas Marner Robert Frost -- ...

... a civil war. The only white person in the village becomes the teacher after the regular teacher leaves. He begins reading Great Expectations to the children - and lives are irrevocably changed. This was a deceivingly deep novel, well written, wonderful characterizations. Caution - several ...

... and one on Uncle Vanya by Chekhov. Other years we read A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables, Silas Marner, Great Expectations, The Catcher in the Rye, Heart of Darkness (which I have read three times and still can't stand), The Grapes of Wrath, The Scarlet Letter, Jude ...

... Mockingbird, Roll of Thunder Hear my Cry, Othello (which was sort of an optional extra, but I thought it was great!), Great Expectations, A Streetcar Named Desire and Hamlet. And obviously we did some poetry. I enjoyed people like R.S. Thomas and T.S. Eliot and thought Robert ...

... Bronte Beloved by Toni Morrison Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen The Awakening by Kate Chopin Tender is the Night by F. ...

... the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Can't remember many others. My sons had to read A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations by Dickens Heart of Darkness by Conrad The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Gulliver's Travels by Swift Night by Elie Wiesel A ...

Great Expectations and Mr. Pip.

... Connolly HP series (I'm counting these as one ... it's my list after all) The Princess Bride by William Goldman Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien Life of Pi by Yann Martel The Thirteenth ...

I'm currently reading Great Expectations. The next book I plan on reading is Cold Mountain.

... second edition, first UK edition, copyright, whatever. But I really DON'T want to see the dates of 50 different copies of Great Expectations! I really hope no one decides to go THAT route. (Edited to add notes from the Concepts page. Under "What is a work?" it reads, "The purpose of works ...

I highly recommend Great Expectations. I've either disliked or been indifferent to everything else I've tried, but I absolutely loved that one.

So what is the original publication date of a book that was originally published serially (e.g., Great Expectations) -- the date of the first serial installment (December 1860), the last one (August 1861) or maybe the date that the full text was first published as a single volume (since, after ...

The only reason I have not listed Dickens on my shame list is because I had to read Great Expectations for an English class. I liked the novel well enough and it wasn't difficult for me to read but at the same time it didn't inspire me to read more novels by Dickens. Jane Austen had the ...

Jane Eyre, Great Expectations, and Pride and Prejudice

>7 I think Great Expectations is the book that caused me to fall in love with Dickens - I hope you love it as much as I did :D I just started The Morgaine Saga by C.J. Cherryh a couple of days ago - it's an omnibus of Gate of Ivrel, Well of Shiuan, and Fires of Azeroth. I have to ...

Started reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Also reading A Chosen Faith by John A Buehrens.

digfish, I also went through a Dickens immersion, but still have some on my TBR list. Great Expections is also one of my favorites, as is David Copperfield. I slogged through the weepy Old Curiosity Shop, mainly because it had been such a success when it was published. Not high on my ...

digfish, I also went through a Dickens immersion, but still have some on my TBR list. Great Expections is also one of my favorites, as is David Copperfield. I slogged through the weepy Old Curiosity Shop, mainly because it had been such a success when it was published. Not high on my ...

... I read Tale of Two Cities many years ago at school and didn't care for it much. I was 11 and it was just too much! I read Great Expectations in about 1990 and then didn't read any more Dickens after that...until I discovered LT this year and esp. the 'What the Dickens' Group. Just knowing that ...

... et al, What Dickens would you suggest? What was your favorite? I've read A Tale of Two Cities, Hard Times, and Great Expectations. The latter was by far the best and I enjoyed Pip's sense of humor.

... :) As far as owning up goes, I'm not ashamed to admit that until earlier this year I'd only read Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. After joining LT (and this group in particular) I got motivated to read David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby and most recently, Our Mutual Friend. ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

How could I have forgotten Miss Havisham, Great Expectations? #8, AAngel, I agree. I think she was the scariest character in the whole series.

Young adult adventures - Arnie Carver and the Plague of Demeverde, motivational Great! All the Time! and am working on a series of legal/medical thrillers.

I just finished a farewell to arms and found it very boring. no one talks like that. also, great expectations i have started twice and couldnt pull through. Lord of the flies was dumb too.

... Frome instead of The House of Mirth or Age of Innocence. And for goodness sake, how many times did I get stuck reading Great Expectations? A Separate Peace - there's just no excuse. In all the history of literature there are SO many better books even just in the private boys' school ...

Is it possible you are describing Great Expectations? You've given a pretty good description of the plot of that novel. Maybe a bit unusual to read in middle school though - at my high school it was on the freshman year curriculum. ETA: Of course the ending isn't as happy, but still, most of ...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.

... Glass by Lewis Carroll Middlemarch by George Eliot Dickens by Peter Ackroyd The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (the bookstore threw this one in for free :)

... October Country by Ray Bradbury 11. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee 12. I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak 13. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 14. Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey 15. The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 16. Animal Farm by George Orwell 17. Night by Elie ...

Been decades since I read it, but Pip says Great Expectations to me.

... The students just dismiss it as, oh, they're gay. I keep trying to like it. BTW, I hate Dickens. Especially Great Expectations. Even A Tale of Two Cities, while good for Dickens, has been done better. I know that's blasphemy for an English teacher. It is just so very obvious ...

... the good. In the same way, some of Dickens later characters may be bad and sympathetic. I'm thinking of this especially in Great Expectations. I always felt bad for Miss Havisham and Estella, as much as they hurt others. And who can forget Magwitch's turnaround? I feel similar about Harry Osborn ...

I started Great Expectations last week, but I got distracted by something else. How did you like it?

how about Justine from a novel by the Marquis de Sade? or Miss Havisham or Estella from Great Expectations?

... found it dragged in the middle but the last 20% or so picked up. Good luck with it! My own favorite by the Chuckster is Great Expectations. I'm planning to try Bleak House this summer, after finishing a couple of books for group reads; that's one of the reasons I read To2C.

34. The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper I was doing well in Great Expectations. I liked the book, but I bought The Margarets early this week, and I just couldn't keep myself from reading it any longer. Tepper is one of my favorite authors, and I have been reading a lot of her lately ...

... specifically because it was on the list. The others I have read have been read before the list was published. I guess Great Expectations is one that I enjoyed. I read it for an English class when I was younger. I was taking a few English courses and had a huge reading load so I had to ...

... this book from my memory the moment I finished it. Other classics that I disliked less vehemently are Tom Sawyer, Great Expectations, most Jane Austen books, Ivanhoe (I really wanted to love it), The Golden Bowl (although I love Henry James), and others I've long forgotten.

... the characters were not perfect, but they tried to live lives that meant something to themselves. I am now reading Great Expectations. This edition is driving me crazy. First of all, I hate it when classics have an introduction. I didn't read this one, but these introductions ...

... is interesting), but ... come on! Having said that, I'd recommend Jack Maggs by Peter Carey - read (or have read) Great Expectations first, ideally - but it's a terrific book in its own right with a very shrewd portrait of the youngish Dickens.

... of appreciation for them and I can definitely understand them better. In high school though, I remember struggling with Great Expectations, Silas Marner, Moby Dick, Billy Budd, and The Scarlet Letter. I believe I'll appreciate the first two a lot more now if I read them again, not ...

... Heights was hard going, but I had to finish it for an English class. Another one I felt like I had to finish was Great Expectations. This was when I was young and felt I needed more exposure to classics. I finished Great Expectations but haven't made myself finish another classic ...

... have been at your suggestion a few months ago - many thanks! I did like the slight twist towards the end when she finds Great Expectations in the school library (I haven't read it (*shame*), so I didn't see that coming - though I'm not sure that I would have anyway!). I was also thinking ...

#73 Killeymoon Pleased to find someone else who has read Mister Pip. I thought it was very good and liked the link to Great Expectations.

This year I read Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. On the island of Bougainville, a teacher reads Great Expectations to his class and the ramifications are disastrous. Mister Pip uses themes from the Dickens book as part of its own story.

... it finally picked up the pace and didn't take 2 pages to say something that could be said in a paragraph. I also hated Great Expectations by Charles Dickens that was also extremely long winded, I know he was getting paid by the word, but come on! Both of those books I had to read ...

Sorry to post two in a row but Great Expectations really annoyed me at the end. Mind you, so did Bleak House.

... vote for Thursday. For those not wanting all the detail of the other site, I'd certainly recommend being familiar with Great Expectations (far and away my favorite Dickens), since Miss Havisham plays such a big role, the humor of which you can appreciate more if you've seen her original ...

... - noticing your interest in film history and your dislike of Dickens, how about watching David Lean's esteemed film of Great Expectations? You never know!

... exclusively fantasy, whatever. (Though if my current reading list is a mixture, that's just as well.) I've been reading Great Expectations for quite some time because other books keep sounding better at the moment. But then I read Elantris in two days.

... and hung up on itself. Anyways, it's on to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde for me. We'll see if not having read Great Expectations is as much of a detriment as not having read Jane Eyre was to reading The Eyre Affair. Damn my non-standard high-school literature curriculum! >65 ...

... romance, lol), the Silverwing trilogy, Vimy by Pierre Berton, Fifth Business by Robertson Davies, The Red Tent, and Great Expectations. I usually read fiction but when I read nonfiction it is generally either military history or armchair travel. This group has an interesting premise, ...

... was forced to read A Tale of Two Cities in the 11th grade. Thanks to a change in school systems, I did not have to read Great Expectations in high school. I’ve tried reading Dickens on my own several times, but end up putting them down for one reason or another and never picking them ...

I finished Great Expectations by Dickens. Pretty good. Seemed more of a fairy tale rather than serious literature, but fabulous characters. I just started Fifth Business by Robertson Davies.

... (along with about 70 other books though). I also just added The Sunne in Splendour -- thanks! I am currently reading Great Expectations. So far (~100pgs in) it is pretty good. Some great imagery at Miss Havisham's house. This is my first Charles Dickens since school reading of A tale ...

... se souvenir des livres qu’on nous recommande. Donc ce sera pour amazon. En ce qui concerne Dickens, il est vrai que Great Expectations semble être un livre à tendance polarisatoire, même entre les fans de Dickens. Je ne connais que quelques adaptations pour le moment. Tu as raison l’ ...

... vu que tu avais lu Bleak House et que tu avais beaucoup aimé. Moi, de Dickens, je n'ai lu que David Copperfield et Great Expectations. J'ai plutôt un faible pour le premier. Le second m'a paru vraiment tordu comme intrigue. PS (édité) Hé bien, en voilà un long message !

... was The Pickwick Papers which I thought was funnier, page for page, than Catch-22. But my comment is really regarding Great Expectations. I love Pip's description of his upbringing as having been 'by hand'. I think that's one of the most gently humorous lines in all the Dickens I've ...

I am reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It is my first Dickens since we read A Tale of Two Cities out loud in the class room in 7th grade. It is too early to tell yet whether I like it or not.

Maybe Great Expectations in the pregnancy section...

... aussi bien que The way we live now... Maintenant j'ai envie à me plonger dans du Dickens et je viens de commander Great Expectations et Our mutual Friend. Euh, tu peux me dire un peu plus sur Boswell et Johnson s'il te plaît? Je n'en ai que vaguement entendu parler, mais ça ...

So if you cherish a stolen copy of Great Expectations, would it be fair to say you love hot Dickens?

... read are Last of the Mohicans, Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre-which are all in my posession right now. I have to finish Great Expectations too. I started that a while back and got side tracked with reading other books. So many classics, so little time.....

... dense. I usually end up rereading about half the paragraphs at least 3 times to wrap my head around them. #4 I read Great Expectations not that long ago, don't remember a whole lot of detail, but I know it didn't make quite the impression that A Tale of Two Cities did. I think that has ...

Dickens isn't so much a favorite author, but I love Great Expectations. I just love the story. Even the Ethan Hawk/Gweneth Paltrow movie (which deviated liberally from the book) was lovely to watch because the story is so beautiful. Normally, I don't like a love story, but this one is ...

I've only read "A Tale of Two Cities" and "Great Expectations," though I own a few more. I love Dickens. His plot lines sometimes have some silly coincidences, but practically every page is witty and sparkling. I'm amazed at how he can describe so much in so few words, and make it funny all ...

... had to read it in school. Although, every now and than it works out: I protested with much verve when I was forced to read Great Expectations in school; and I was a bit ashamed to admit, after all of my protesting, that I really liked it. And digifish_books, regardless of the subject, I ...

Re #22 I generally like Dickens, but I have never liked Great Expectations so I hope you don't use it as the final test case. A Tale of Two Cities is a great swashbuckling sort of book and my own favorite is Bleak House.

Reluctantly: Great Expectations which was required in three different classes. With pleasure: All of William Shakespeare's tradegies and most of his comedies. King James Bible Brother to Dragons In many different variations, selections, and combinded, Letter to an imaginary ...

... time runs out. From my youth: Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights War and Peace Little Women David Copperfield Great Expectations

... so it has a special place for me. And of those I have read (I'm in the process of reading all of his fiction) I believe Great Expectations is his greatest achievement; an opinion that may change. However, my favorite of his novels has to be David Copperfield. Having just reread it I ...

... read the book). I think that was a BBC production. And of course there have been countless renderings of Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. #5 Almigwin, I like Anthony Trollope also. Maybe LT needs a forum for 'Trollopians'? ;)

I'm re-reading Great Expectations for personal reasons. I love it more than I remembered. Anyone love Dickens?

Indeed, this is a tough one. Great Expectations was my first Dickens novel, so I am partial to it; however, I think I have to go with Oliver Twist (my user name being based on a character and all...). To answer fairly, I would have to lock myself away in a cabin somewhere for weeks and read ...

... and Bleak House; I can't imagine a world without those novels in it. For sheer gusto and gothic vision I'd have to go for Great Expectations. I read extracts from it when I was young, then read the whole thing in one go when I was twenty. It really took my imagination. Of course, being a Lo ...

Lois, I can hold my hand up to an aversion to Dickens. I recently had another go at Great Expectations which seems to be most people's favourite and again gave up afeter 150 pages or so. And yet I am able to plough through pages and pages of Dostoyevsky, so what is the problem? I suppose there is ...

... Philbrick February 6. Perfume -- Patrick Suskind 7. Merry Wives of Windsor -- William Shakespeare 8. Great Expectations -- Charles Dickens 9. The Memory Keeper's Daughter -- Kim Edwards 10. Isaac's Storm -- Erik Larson 11. The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel - ...

I've just watched the show. I read Mister Pip recently and thought it was very good. I enjoyed the parallels between Great Expectations and what happened in the novel. Some of the Book Club panel were dissatisfied but perhaps they could have looked at it more closely. I found a lot of substance ...

Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand. Uses the reading of Great Expectations as a catalyst for terrible events. Recommended.

... book in the mail yesterday -- I have read 85/1001. Pretty pathetic, but it seems on par with most of us here. I have Great Expectations, Madame Bovary, A Bend in the River, Ulysses and Family Matters on my TBR bookshelf right now. I confess I started but couldn't finish The Bro ...

... on eBay. Haven't read that much British 19th Century classics, as I've always preferred my Balzac and Zola, but Great Expectations was great (a suggestion from my Dad), and this one is looking to be pretty good too, especially with the little 'cliffhangers' at the end of each ...

Finished Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones. The reading of Great Expectations sets off an horrific series of events. Themes from the Dickens novel are picked up in the story. Not a difficult read, but leaves you with lots to think about. Recommended. Also finished The Woman Who Walked into Doors ...

... Now reading Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones (New Zealand) set on the Pacific island of Bouganville. A teacher's reading of Great Expectations sets off an alarming series of events.

Just finished Outlander and The Camel Club By David Baldacci. Am working on Great Expectations, Mission of Motherhood (for a yahoo book group), and The Collectors by David Baldacci. I have set aside The Thirteenth Tale, The Last town on Earth and Beneath a Marble Sky next to ...

... thought out, full of drama and intrique. I look forward to the sequel, which is on my list to read this month also. 5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens c This month I have slated to finish Great Expectations, Beneath a Marble Sky, The Last Town on Earth and not sure what ...

... experience sounds very similar to yours. We did read Hiroshima, Othello, and Romeo and Juliet in high school and Great Expectations in junior high. I read alot on my own, but I don't remember any more required reading other than excerpts in textbooks. Surely it's not from memory ...

... orey Bloody Chamber--to be honest, we only read one of the short stories, but I bought the book to find more like them. Great Expectations The Grapes of Wrath The Fountainhead Harry Reed, Inc Harriet the Spy Sounder Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Little Women Like Water ...

... rder 2. The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke 3. A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K Le Guin 4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (look! A classic!) 5. Hogfather and the Discworld Companion (2nd edn) - counted as one because I didn't really mean to read ...

4. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens c I decided that I would list the books that I want to read next. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian The Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen-this is for a February book club Poet of Loch Ness by Brian Jay Corrigan T ...

I'm with jhowell on Moby Dick and Great Expectations - I gave up on both of them. But Ayn Rand? I read Atlas Shrugged for the first time when I was twelve or thirteen years old and it was so exciting that I gave every spare moment to it, even though the philosophy was beyond me then.

... to me that many of the classics that I had to read in high school top my list of worst reads such as Ethan Frome and Great Expectations. After reading that one, I won't even try picking up something that Dickens penned. Also, I generally am a fan a Shakespeare's tragedies but ...

... times that I've long since lost count how many times I've read each book. I also read Inkheart and Inkspell often.Great Expectations whispers to be reread frequently. And Beast by Peter Benchley, Lord of the Rings, The Looking Glass Wars, and The Book of Lost Things all ...

... then The Once and Future King was my safety blanket book for years. Wuthering Heights has to be at the top, followed by Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, The Odyssey, The Tempest, Medea, The Stand, Nineteen Eighty Four, anything by James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, ...

... that should not be in this area of LibraryThing, if it were to be in LT at all. Back to topic. For me, it's Joe from Great Expectations, which I read in high school. He was always very supportive, never in the forefront, didn't like to draw attention to himself, and was always happy in ...

... level, I recall: Oedipus The King, The Heart of the Matter, The Taming of the Shrew, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Great Expectations, collected poems of Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'urbervilles, and The Winter's Tale.

I've just started Great Expectations again, a favorite i re-read frequently. I'm also reading the series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin. I finished the first one, A Game of Thrones a while ago and am now working on the second. And I'm reading Eragon by Christopher Paolin ...

Glad to see I am not alone in hating Dickens, and particularly Great Expectations. I have an English degree and my family turn to me expectantly when questions about literature come up in quiz shows, but Dickens gets a disproportionate amount of attention which means I can't answer ...

... The ending knocked me sideways: I really didn't see it coming. Then, I couldn't guess who Pip's benefactor was in Great Expectations, much to everyone's derision.

I had to read Great Expectations in HS but it was so dreary it put me off Dickens forever. The other class read Jane Eyre instead, which I would have preferred. Certainly, I've read it since (along with other Bronte sisters' novels such as Wuthering Heights) without the urge to throw it at ...

Ugh, the last Dickens I read was Great Expectations back in 6th grade and I hated it. I'm debating on reading this one.

... make the "hero" so utterly lacking in any redeeming characteristics? All I could think was he got what he deserved. I liked Great Expectations, but I've never been able to finish Oliver Twist and I've tried several times. I do love A Confederacy of Dunces. I liked Fitzgerald better in ...

... His cynicism and idealism. Bridget from Bridget Jones' Diary - All her imperfections. Pip and maybe Estella from Great Expectations - Resentful of his past but always shaped by it. It'd be much easier to do with movies.

... Achebe Pride and Predjudice Jane Austen I've read all of Jane Austen, to be specific) Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte Great Expectations Charles Dickens (movie) Middlemarch George Eliot The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert (movie) Dead Souls Nik ...

... this year were Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman (for the bibliophile), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (a reread), Great Expectations (I love Dickens), and Paul Auster's Book of Illusions. Auster was new to me and I was really impressed. I am eager to read more of his work.

lington, I'm with you on Dickens. I genuinely enjoyed Great Expectations the first time through, (the second was much slower going), and I made it through A Christmas Carol because it was so short, but I've never been able to finish another of his books. I've given up on him.

lington, I agree with you about Dickens. I finally finished Great Expectations about the third try, but that was because we were in Japan and books in English were scarce. I like the story behind Tale of Two Cities so I'll will give that a try again someday, but generally I find Dickens ...

I was forced to read Great Expectations when I was 12 in school. It totally turned me off the classics. It took 30 years for me to attempt them again and I'm having a great time. I've read The Good Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird and am currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

The books that I remember being assigned include Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Silas Marner, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, and more modern stuff like Johnny Tremain, Lord of the Flies, and A Day No Pigs Would Die. On my own, I was reading ...

Another vote here against Great Expectations, which I had to read in high school. (My class had the option of either doing that or a really cool mythology unit, and I've never really forgiven them.) I read Moby Dick on my own, and if I'd had any sense at the time I would've done the abridged ...

I'm nearing the end of a re-read of Dracula: it's so much more bizarre than I remember. I've been dipping in and out of Great Expectations and Brighton Rock to use for comprehension examples with children. I've got two Camus to re-read in front of me but have to be honest and admit to ...

Oocels ... re Dickens on audiobook ... Great Expectations was the first one I've listened to, read by Frank Muller. Oliver Twist is read by Flo Gibson. Both are unabridged. Flo Gibson is good, but Frank Muller was outstanding. (George Guidall, though, is my favorite audiobook reader of ...

... mind you, but I feel like I need a shower. The Count of Monte Cristo--one of my favorites! Enjoy. I listened to Great Expectations about a year ago, read by Frederick Davidson. I wasn't terribly fond of his young Pip voice; other than that it was very good. I'll check out Anton Lesser ...

Just finished: * Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (audiobook) * All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren Now reading: * Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (audiobook) * American Prometheus by Kai Bird & Martin Sherwin

... I also visited Eaton, Windsor, and a couple of other small villages. Upon my return to the states I read back-to-back Great Expectations and Oliver Twist, in addition to Peter Ackroyd's bio Dickens}. My reading inspired my trip, and vice-versa. Katbook - In a book I previously ...

... to read it in high school and was the first school book that I didn't bother to finish. I also wasn't the biggest fan of Great Expectations.

... Men by Robert Penn Warren and also have The Great Bridge by David McCullough ready to go. I'm listening to Great Expectations by Charles Dickens during my commute.

... for Dickens (I visited his house on Doughty Street), and upon my return to the USA I read/consumed Oliver Twist and Great Expectations back-to-back, and then moved on to Peter Ackroyd's extremely enjoyable biography Dickens. Actually, before I flew out of London, I had to purchase a ...

... for everyone. Love Dickens, but I think A Tale of Two Cities is weak and not representative of his abilities. Didn't like Great Expectations in high school; read it again 20 years later and loved it--I think teaching Dickens in high school should be banned, as it has probably done more to ...

I loved Great Expectations, but I agree that it's a bad choice for high-school classes, and I don't understand why they make high-school students read it. I was asked to read it in high school, but I didn't like it then. Twenty years made all the difference.

I've never read a Dickens novel I liked. I especially hated Great Expectations. Also, I never understood why every highschool kid in the country is forced to read Dickens when there are so many better options.

... books, and ended up reading several I would never have thought to buy: Shalimar the Clown, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and Crome Yellow. In every case I bought the book midway through. Last year I went through a handful of Teaching Company ...