Great Expectations was the one book that I wasn't looking forward to starting at all. My sister, was in Honors English last year and she had to read A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and she said that the book was horrible and it was really hard to get through. Then realizing that this book was by the exact same author, I began to dread the moment of opening to the first page. Very surprisingly though, I found myself intrigued by the entire book itself. I enjoyed the plot until the unrealistic parts began to happen. I mean, how can three unrelated characters(Estella, Molly, and Magwitch) all have significant parts in the book(unrelated) and then all end up being connected in the end? That brought my overall rating of the book down. I wasn't used to Dickens' writing style, which made it hard to get through and really time consuming but I really liked the way that he scattered small hints throughout the novel about little things about the characters.
I wasn't ever looking forward to reading this book. I mean, I like the book but I never liked it enough to come home and jump right into it. Since, during the week I'm busy after school until about nine o'clock or so. I didn't ever get to do my reading till pretty late at night which is fine with me because I'd rather read in the night. I always jumped onto the fouton/couch thing in my room, grab a blanket and get reading. For the first half of the novel, I placed annotations right away after I found something useful. After I got done reading a chapter I would read the summary on Sparknotes and see if I understood it properly or not. Oh by the way, I printed out all of the chapter summaries off of Sparknotes before even starting the book because in case I ever had to read while I was not at ome then i would be able to have the summaries with me.
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