What are your thoughts on this novel?

I don't know what an ESL is, but holyfuck is this novel good. AAA reading. Every page is a delight to the /lit/guy and to the seeker of good entertainment!

>>9807220
Good book, might have weird words you'll have to look up but I remember it being very literal. It will help a lot with parsing complex sentence structure.

>>9807317
It's not a good book, it's melodramatic tear-jerker.

too boring. couldn't even finish

It's one of the few classics which had movie adaptationS which did justice to the book.

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Julia Sun-Joo Lee, The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel, establishes beyond reasonable doubt the substantial influence that Frederick Douglass's Narrative had on Great Expectations. It's quite enlightening. The entire book is worth reading; it's a very nifty and enjoyable piece of lit crit.

>>9807933
The David Lean version, in particular. Wonderful stuff. The entirety of the movie through to the end of his childhood couldn't be improved upon, I don't think; although it loses a some steam when he grows up, as the book does, imho.

>>9807220
about to read this. What should I expect?

>>9808023
Melodrama.

>>9808023
Imagine a sleep sedative in book form.

>>9807220

I always wanted to read this when I saw that South Park episode as a kid

>>9807220
It's one of the more difficult of Dickens', but very good. The nay-sayers either haven't read it or don't know how to read, the latter condition (easily distracted, want of patience, ego maniacal, etc.) quite common amongst latter day, North American millenials, i.e. born on or after 1/1/92.

>>9808527
What episode specifically?

>>9808559
I feel young again. Thank you.

>>9807220
My memory's so poor I can't recall if this is one of the books I actually read all the way through in higschool. I hope I did, in all honesty. I remember it exceeding my expectations. Greatly. But in all seriousness we can't let him get the nuclear codes.

>>9808593
No problem, senpai. Cheers.

>>9807220
Top cozy. Patball next to his travel journals though.

come on boys

>>9807436
This. Dickens was the Christopher Nolen of his time