A review by losersfiction
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

5.0

An excellent book with complicated characters. It would seem that there’s two ways to make a good book; simple plot and complex characters, or complex plot and simple characters. This book has a fairly simple plot, but the characters are the important part. Each one has layers and layers and is developed to the point of often doing 180’s or even 360’s. The characters Magwich and Miss Haversham were my favorites in terms of complexity and interesting symbolism. The book was written as a periodical, released slowly over time, so nearly every chapter has something important happen - in order to maintain reader interest. I will be teaching a literature class in the fall and this is one of the books, so I will probably be updating this review as I go.