Did not meet Expectations

I have a new least favorite book! It gets points for tedium, dullness and disappointment. Other books have been ruined by spoiled endings or over analyzing, but not this one. Great Expectations ruins its self by its self.

I guess it really started when pip left for London and was a jerk to Biddy. Those kind of made me lose respect for him as a character, and he really never recovered form that in my eyes. There’s also the issue where the story is really boring. Looking back on it, I think of a jelly donut: the batter is crusty and hard to get through and at the same time oddly substance less, but you suffer through it to get to the jelly. Finally you get through, just to find the jelly is grape, and from the eighteen hundreds. Then you get ill from two hundred year old jelly. It is a very sad experience altogether.

The characters besides Pip were tolerable, but I didn’t really sympathize with any of them. Also, the settings seem sort of boring and reused. But the mysteries, they were another matter. First of all, sophomores love to act smart, and uncalled for spoilers are apparently a great way to show off your intelligence. The second thing is, that if there is one thing I hate, it’s a book that spends four hundred pages setting up mysteries, and then solves them all unsatisfactorily in the last fifty pages, it really sucks. It’s also ridiculous because it seemed that like two hundred of those pages were unnecessary padding. By the end of the book I was just sort of skimming the book every night before I went to bed, then reviewing the chapters on spark notes. I finished on time, but I may not have gotten absolutely everything out of the very end of the book.