Apparently I have two....hmmm....interesting...

From the back of the book:

As a small boy at Joe Gargery's forge, Pip meets two people who will affect his whole life - an escaped convict he is forced to help, and the eccentric Miss Haversham, whose beautiful, cold ward Estella young Pip adores. But when a secret benefactor pays for him to go to London to become a gentleman, Pip never dreams he will meet the dreadful Magwitch again, nor just how wrong his expectations are. . .

This edition has been specially abridged for Puffin Classics.

Starting a bookring for this one, PM me if you're interested. The list of participants is as follows:

GlasgowGal - UK - int'l *finished*
emmalope - PA - east coast only *finished*
nmarshall88 - TN - int'l SKIPPED
vicki9170 - FL - int'l <-----current reader
Czersk - MN - int'l

and back to me in MN or Poland

Just sent this out to GlasgowGal today. Even though this has been sent I am still accepting more members who will be added to the bottom of the list. Thanks so much, I hope you all enjoy the book!

I've just received this in the post. Thanks Zarylia! I'm looking forward to reading it soon.

Well, I've been trying to read this for a week now, and have stuggled my way through only 170 pages of it. Much as I like the storyline of "Great Expectations" and the idea of reading Dickens, I'm afraid, like Austen novels I have tried, I just cannot get into the characters or style of writing. I think it may be a throwback to a terrible English teacher I had at school who made me loathe reading (strange I know), and reading this kind of book just brings it all back. I had hoped, being 30, I may be able to move on, but obviously not. Maybe I'll try again when I'm 40 ;-)

So ... in the interests of Bookcrossing, rather than hold on to this for another month and struggle my way through it, I've decided to send it on to Emmalope unfinished. I have downloaded an e-book copy, so hopefully one day I will finish reading it. But for now it's a big "Thank You" to Zarylia for sending it to me, and I'm just sorry I couldn't get into it more.

So onwards the book goes, to East Coast USA ... hopefully on Tuesday!

Released on Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at ... by mail :) in Sent to a fellow BookCrosser, Bookring Controlled Releases.

Recieved this bookring book in the mail a few days ago. Can't wait to get started!

Still trying to get an address for this book to continue...

I enjoyed this book, I didn't remember all of it from High School.
Sent in the mail to the next ray person on 5/19/04

received today

Started this yesterday about halfway done. PM'ing Czersk for their addy.

I didn't realize this was the abridged version. That's disappointing. I was hoping it was the real deal. It is a bit of a relief though. I am overwhelmed with my reading as it is, so now this means I don't have to read this one! Since I am at Zarylia's house as I write this, I think I'll just return it to her shelf and consider it a ring finished. Of course, she should journal it as well (HINT HINT). Thanks anyway!