Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics)

A complex masterpiece, a sometimes laborious read. Great Expectations fully deserves its four stars as one of the great monuments of the Bildungsroman. Charles Dickens plants a story of rare power, capable of creating some of literature's most iconic characters. However, that monument has its cracks: a structure that betrays its serial publication, a not-always-likeable protagonist, and a tone that is sometimes heavy. A classic to be read with admiration, but also with patience.

This book is understandably a classic. Dickens' famous characters in the story are memorable, colorful, funny, alarming, and moving. The story revolves around young Pip, orphaned and living at the mercy of a cruel sister but loving brother-in-law, and his accidental meeting with an escaped convict who will change his life forever. Dickens writes with
humor, pathos, and the sympathy for society's downtrodden that characterize so much of his work.

Good book if I'm allowed to hate Pip and consider it a comedy (I'm the worst).