Charles Dickens - Great Expectations - 8

[mrdude]

<img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0486415864.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg" align="left">Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is the story of a young boy named pip who while being raised by his older sister and her husband Joe, the town blacksmith, gains aspirations to become a gentleman rather than apprentice to Joe.


It is not often that I find myself reading classic literature. It is not that I am opposed to such, it's that it is often out of my comfort zone, so I don't even know where to begin. I believe I first picked this book up while browsing a book store and was intrigued at how quickly it took off. I aways had ideas of dickens being a very wordy and bland author. I found this to be far from the truth.

The story is quite captivating, the prose being exceptional and the storyline intriguing. Much of the driving force behind the plot-line is done by several mysteries throughout the book. It seemed to me that whenever the action started to dim down a bit I was implored to read further simply to find those out.

I was even more amazed to learn that the work was originally a serialised novel. It's hard when reading the work, to imagine that he wrote it in small segments throughout the course of a year.

This is surely a work worth reading. It is insightful, and really makes one think about issues that arise quite often in todays world and are often not addressed by modern authors.



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Review also posted at the IBLIST