I read this in high school and remember liking it (though I wonder now if it might have been the abridged version, because the full length is pretty long). Yet despite its length, Great Expectations is pretty action-packed, and reads like a modern novel. Pip is raised by his abusive sister and ...
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Loved this so very much!! First of all, though, that title. It's terrible. It tells you almost nothing. I never would have read the book, except that my husband sent me a list of Harry Potter read-alikes and this was on the list, so I downloaded a sample (plus I had also read "Ender's Game" and ...
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This wasn't at all what I expected. It was a lot more graphic, and far more of a sweeping epic than I bargained for, though I definitely got sucked in. The story jumps around to multiple characters' perspectives. The protagonist was Thea, though she didn't get any more "screen time" than the rest ...
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I read this years ago, and enjoyed it far more then, as I recall, than I did this time around. But having just finished "Jane Eyre," I very much wanted another story in the same vein. The plus: mostly the prose. I just love the Bronte sisters' style. But that's pretty much all this story had ...
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Classics, I find, are either super boring or AWESOME, and rarely in between. I don't know why that is, but this one is definitely in the latter category! Of course, I was predisposed to love it, since I love the musical so much--I've seen it on stage at least once, memorized the soundtrack and have ...
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First of all: what a title! I'm so impressed, from a marketing standpoint. Automatically I know that I can expect a clean romance set in modern times, and the cover reinforces that nicely. Bravo, Julie Wright (or whoever was responsible for title and cover!) The story itself reads like the ...
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