Thoughts On Reading

       My personal reaction to the book was a relatively positive one.  It was an intuitive, relatively understandable, and even a little humorous at parts novel.  I thought the story ended on a pretty bad note, what with Estella leaving Pip and Joe leaving Pip and Biddy leaving Pip and even Pip losing all his money.  But when I got over that fact, I realized Pip was content and happy being just the way he was before being a gentleman, he didn't need all of that money, wealth, and status, he just needed to be okay with himself.  I didn't particularly enjoy Dicken's as an author not only becasue his books are just way too long, it's because the language he uses occasionally is just wierd and a bit misunderstandable.  Other than that, he's the best author of the century I guess.  I didn't sympathize with Pip basically becasue he was such a jerk to everyone but I did like Herbert a lot becasue of his likeable, funny outlook towards life.  I also enjoyed Estella near the beginning after reading the ending, basically because she thought she was all that, when she was just a poor bum of a baby sent out on her butt.  Slightly cynical, I know, but painfully true.  A mystery i could solve from the beginning was that Magwitch was going to be the benefactor of Pip.  It was just so obvious, and in a way, that man was the only person Pip really helped out, ever. Overall, the book wasn't the most fantastical experience in the whole world, but I guess it was better than staring at my Iphone for 12 hours a day.                
       Great Expectations was a relatively annoying book that had to be constantly read every night.  That was my first reaction to the book when I picked it out of my dusty bookshelf and cracked it open.  It was honestly worse than the Chinese Water Torture reading the first 100 pages but when I got to the second act of the book, I noticed it was getting even more boring than before and I was falling behind.  A week ago, I read about 150 pages of the book to catch up and I had never felt so confident before, staying ahead of the game, being an overachiever, how you feel when you have everything done, content.  Then Tuesday came...