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Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)

119 reviews
Charles Dickens

Penguin Classics, 2002

Expectations Greatly Exceeded
Who knew that a book written almost 150 years ago could be so great? Not me. Granted, part of the reason I enjoyed this book so much was because I had expected it not to be (A Tale of Two Cities is still collecting dust on my bookshelf). The writing is flawless; characters, wonderfully varied; and plot, save an occasional feeling of contrivance at the almost uncanny character interconnections, ...

Great Expectations (Cliffs Notes)

4 reviews
Debra A. Bailey

Cliffs Notes, 2000

very good
I thought this was a great book. It was a really good summery on great expectations. I know how some people get really confused when reading books like this because it is sometimes hard to understand the language. So I highy reccomend this book.

The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World

29 reviews
Tim Harford

Random House, 2008

Logical Economics
If you enjoyed Freakonomics by Stephen Levitt you will love this book. The author will take you below the surface of reality and show why things are the way they are. This book does have some shocking things. (Like why oral sex increased dramatically among teenagers in the last few years:because of the fear of Aids). He explains why it costs so much to live in Manhattan versus rural areas, supply ...

Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations

50 reviews
Alex Harris, Brett Harris

Multnomah Books, 2008

TMost's review
Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations This book is truly revolutionary. I think it is not just for teens but is a message that society as a whole can use. We all have been raised to believe that we deserve things instead of learning the joy of working hard for something. The current generation has it even harder because they have to self-administer hard things. Who ...

Created for Work: Practical Insights for Young Men

7 reviews
Bob Schultz

Great Expectations Book, 2006

Excellent guidance for boys -- and the rest of us.
Bob Schultz has done it again. Just as in his earlier book, Boyhood and Beyond, this book is full of short lessons taught with fitting and interesting stories from his own life. We've been using these books for family study, and we're all (male and female) getting a lot out of them. Bob Schultz writes as a humble, hard-working Christian who's using the special talents God gave him, including ...

Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give ...

22 reviews
Judith Viorst

Free Press, 1998

Good for everyone
Sometimes we wonder why life is so damn tough and sad and tragic. Well, this book doesn't help to answer those questions or to make it seem any better, but it does normalize all of those feelings, and it does explore all of the normal and necessary losses people experience in their lives. My therapist recommended it to me when my not-good-for-me boyfriend broke up with me and in turn, facilitated ...

Boyhood and Beyond: Practical Wisdom for Becoming a Man

11 reviews
Bob Schultz

Great Expectations Book, 2004

Becoming a Man, as God Intends
Author Bob Schultz, coming from the background of an outdoor man of the Pacific Northwest, who works with his hands, both for a living and as part of his own service toward God, has managed to craft in BOYHOOD AND BEYOND, a highly useful and relevant work to guide boys into becoming men as God intends, one who protects and provides for his family, yet has enough humility to stoop to help a ...

Great Expectations (Barnes & Noble Classics)

3 reviews
Charles Dickens

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

GET IT AGAIN
I had just divorced from a five year marriage, was lonely as hell, had no money, no tv, then went to the library where I found it in a "classics" display. It's called a classic, because IT IS. Forget the movie(s). You will fall in love with these characters, and project their lessons onto your own life.

Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)

38 reviews
Charles Dickens

Dover Publications, 2001

One of the best novels ever written
Without a doubt this has to be one of the greatest novels of all time. I won't say it's the best just because once a work of art attains greatness I find it quite incomparable to other great works. Great works are ones which have fully succeeded in expressing the emotions and convictions of the artist, and without a doubt Great Expectations acheives this. Unfortunately I only hold this view of ...

Writing Essentials: Raising Expectations and Results While Simplifying Teaching

7 reviews
Regie Routman

Heinemann, 2004

Content, NOT conventions!
I purchased this book a few months ago as a textbook requirement for a graduate course I took. Little did I know that I would end up dog-earing practically every page! Regie's approach to teaching writing resounded with me on so many levels. As a kindergarten teacher coming off her first year in a classroom, I had felt a nagging dissatisfaction with our school's packaged writing "program", but ...

The Search

105 reviews
Iris Johansen

Bantam Books, 2001

IRIS HAS DONE IT AGAIN
Having recently discovering this author I got online and ordered all I could afford of her fantastically told tales. With this one I wept and laughted and this is exactly what I need as I am sitting here with a broken arm and I need to suspend reality for a while. Not an expert on her yet but her characters were alive and I could feel their presence. A good tale well told. Won't say much about ...

Exceptional Customer Service: Going Beyond Your Good Service to Exceed the Customer's Expectation

3 reviews
Lisa Ford, David McNair, ...

Adams Media, 2001

A Step Beyond the Others
I have been working in customer service training for over a decade now and I've seen a lot of systems come and go. Lisa Ford's insights and ideas about customer service, however, are timeless. This book represent a compilation of the customer service ideas and techniques she has talked about over the years. It's great to have all of it in one place, and in a book format. I had been looking ...

Charles Dickens Four Complete Novels (Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities)

23 reviews
Charles Dickens

Gramercy, 1990

Enjoying the Classics
Beautiful book. Everyone in our home is fighting over who gets to read it next. Maybe I should have ordered more than one...

Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (Oxford History of the United States)

18 reviews
James T. Patterson

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

A well-balanced overview of America's most troubled era
James Patterson has assembled the most comprehensive survey of contemporary American history. With the Cold War as the backdrop, he guides the reader through a tumultuous period that took in two wars and the Civil Rights movement. He amply describes the nature of these conflicts and the impact they had on American society. The leading figures are brought into focus, as well as the crucial ...

Great Expectations
Charles Dickens

Coffeetown Press, 2008

Pip starts out as many children in Charles Dickens do-poor and stifled by adults and circumstance. The beautiful Estella is everything that is unattainable for someone of Pip's station, but his poverty and Estella's affluence are inextricably intertwined, and Pip spends the rest of his life trying to prove himself to her. There is no reconciliation of the imperatives of romantic love and social justice-there is no learning to love someone for ...

Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of Expectation (Bradford Books)

3 reviews
David Huron

The MIT Press, 2008

Chapter titles and selected subtitles and descriptions of figures and tables
I really like this book, but I don't think I'm qualified to review it. However, I think you can get a sense of whether you might be interested in it by reading the list of chapter titles and some of the subtitles and descriptions of some of the tables (T) and figures (F), so here's that: 1 Introduction Emotional Consequences of Expectations Tension Response Imagination Response ...

The Wisdom of Menopause

193 reviews
Christiane Northrup

Bantam, 2003

I highly recommend this book to my clients
As a psychotherapist specializing in perimenopausal, menopausal, and post menopausal women's issues, I advise all of my clients to read this book. It offers clear, concise information regarding both the physical and emotional changes that occur during menopause, and presents unbiased facts regarding hormone replacement therapy that will assist you in making informed decisions regarding your ...

Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

21 reviews
Christopher Lasch

W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Superbly Written and Incisive Critique
Christopher Lasch is intellect, you sense it as you read a flowing description of well-structured prose. He develops arguments, marshals facts, and presents his critique of so much that is debilitating modern society - American - and through ill-thought out emulation, British and other Western societies. Human society is usually mired in mediocrity with flashes of brilliance, but to actively ...

When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy

9 reviews
John Piper

Crossway Books, 2006

Worthy of More Than What 79 Pages Delivers ...
When the Darkness Will Not Lift: Doing What We Can While We Wait for God--and Joy John Piper does not waste words nor space in filling this book with things other than scripture explaining the root of depression and Christian ways in assisting those afflicted with hopelessness, bitterness, and sadness. Darkness is the main impetus that keeps a depressed soul down, riddled with the falsehoods, ...

Great Expectations

2 reviews
Charles Dickens

W. W. Norton, 1999

One of the Greatest Novels Ever Written
Why do I come here to "review" this? It isn't anyone's book club selection, no. But tonight I want to talk about this incomparably rich and wonderful book, and how as a fourteen year old kid I simply sank into it, taking it slowly week by week, glorying in its mysteries, its great grotesque portrait of Miss Havisham in her rotting bridal finery, its often painful recounting of a young boy's ...

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