Classics

Advantages: A classic novel that impress peole with your variety of reading materials
Disadvantages: a slightly contrived ending

...I didn't read the classic Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte until just the other day. I had read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and fell in love at once with Mr Rochester, all of the Austen novels, falling in love at once with Mr Darcy and many of the other Victorian type novels, mostly for pleasure but with the mind that they would help for comparison of texts of the era when I sat the dreaded exam for the worst book I have ever read, Tess of the ...
...by a woman) Bronte released Wuthering Heights to the public. Originally beginning in the first person of a Mr Lockwood, a visitor to the area, we truly believe that a gentleman is taking us through his first impressions of Wuthering Heights and the strange gloominess that fills the household. This however soon changes, Mrs Dean, the housekeeper of the Grange, takes over the narration and tells our weary traveller of the happenings at the house before ... Read review

Advantages: Characters are exceptional.
Disadvantages: Quite lengthy.

Great Expectations The novel Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, follows a young, socially inexperienced boy through his journey of disillusionment and morally incorrect choices. These choices ultimately end with his inability to adapt to life and the relationships around him. Pip encounters various tragedies throughout his perplexing years, plunging him into a life of deceit, debt and mysterious truths. These are all told through the eyes ...
...cover. Towards the end of Great Expectations, Pip is content with where his life has ended up. Throughout life, Pip has changed from a loving, young boy into one who strives for better things and, as a result of this, becomes much more egotistical in his relationships in life. However, when his expectations come to an end, so does his desire for improvement and thus becomes a very good - natured person. I particularly enjoyed reading this novel ... Read review

Advantages: inspiring, humorous
Disadvantages: none

Pride and prejudice undoutedly is the most famous love story in enlish literature Because it points out the most fundamental function of courtship(or even all relationships), that is to find someone to complete ourselves, to become the ideal self through learning from out partners. Darcy and Lizzy are the two protagnists of this novel, before they meet each other, each of them has his weaknesses yet they do not realize by themselves. Basically, ...
...and expressing effectively because of his background, education and practical abilities, Lizzy has too much prejudice because of her brilliant conversing skills and so tend to judge too hastily. After their experiences with one another, both of them overcome their major phychological barriers form learning , Darcy becomes more easy-going and spirited, Lizzy becomes more patient and sophisticated. Their union represent a new ruling class--a combination ... Read review

Advantages: wonderful imagery
Disadvantages: not long enough

...of a bygone era of harsh and yet unrivaled beauty in the countryside. I was also struck by the amount of devotion Tess had to the people she loved. A must read, especially for 20 something females! I will never judge a book by the blurb on the back again!!!! ... Read review

Advantages: Good if you're into love storys and like reading about the "Roaring Twenties"
Disadvantages: Not so good if you can't stand all of that lovey dovey nonsense.

The Great Gatsby is a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald and it is set in "the Roaring Twenties", the period just after WW1 when everyone went slightly crazy because of the opression of the War. It was an age of the "flappers" and the "bootleggers". Fitzgerald outlines the personalities of many different people and so setting - in time and place - is very important to the plot of the novel. The Great Gatsby is very much a book about love and relationships. ...
...full of luxuries which in the end mean nothing to them. Then there is the on-going saga of Gatsby and Daisy's love affair which ends... well let's just say it's not the best possible outcome. The final two relationships involve a poor garage owner and his wife, and his wife and Tom. These relationships spell disaster for the "goodies" of the novel and determine how it all turns out in the end. I'm trying very hard not to give away too much but if ... Read review