Great Expectations

Great Expectations

1860 • 548 pages

Ratings473

Average rating3.5

15

Oof, this was a little bit painful. I'm not sure if it was because I was already basically familiar with the story, or because I found Pip's obsessive love for Estella a bit annoying, but I struggled through the first 2/3 of this novel. Once we started understanding Magwitch's story (around the last 1/3), things picked up and I finished the remainder of the novel quickly. I understand reader's love for the novel as a whole, but I was really only excited by the resolution.

January 19, 2014