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Great Expectations Chapter 13 (Spoilers up to Chapter 13)

I’ll fix the formatting in a few hours when I’m at my computer. Reddit mobile now refuses markup for some reason!

**Discussion Prompts:**

  1. Pip and Joe head off, poor Joe is so anxious. What did you think of their meeting?

  2. Twenty five guineas! That’s an absolute fortune (I say, not having done any calculations whatsoever)! 

  3. Joe presented the situation smoothly to his wife, Pumplechook gets involved, and Pip is “bound over.” And Pip is miserable. Speculations as to why?

  4. History buffs or those of the esoteric knowledges - what did it mean to be “bound” or to have indenture papers? It sounds a lot more serious than an apprenticeship or similar. 

  5. Anything else to discuss?

**Links**

[Project Gutenberg](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1400)

[Standard eBooks](https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/charles-dickens/great-expectations)

[Librivox Audiobook](https://librivox.org/great-expectations-by-charles-dickens/)

**Last Lines:**

> I had liked it once, but once was not now.

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u/awaiko — 7 days ago
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Great Expectations Chapter 11 (Spoilers up to Chapter 11)

Hello everyone! Welcome new readers, I hope that you're enjoying Dickens' story so far.

Discussion Prompts:

  1. Pip returns to the house and listens to toadies and humbugs wittering on about ... trimmings? What was this scene?

  2. Dickens does a wonderful room description and then Pip perambulates Miss Havisham (eventually with an audience)? What do you make of this performance? Did you learn more about the new characters?

  3. Happy birthday Miss H! I haven’t spent a birthday walking around the room I plan to use upon my death. Have you?

  4. The day plays out similarly. Except there’s a young gentleman who wants a fight. Apparently Pip can fight though! I’m sure it’ll all make sense eventually?

  5. Anything else to discuss?

Links

Project Gutenberg

Standard eBooks

Librivox Audiobook

Last Lines:

> What with the birthday visitors, and what with the cards, and what with the fight, my stay had lasted so long, that when I neared home the light on the spit of sand off the point on the marshes was gleaming against a black night-sky, and Joe’s furnace was flinging a path of fire across the road.

u/awaiko — 9 days ago
▲ 9 r/ClassicBookClub

**Congratulations on finishing the book! Another classic crossed off the list. See you all very soon for our next book, which starts on Monday! (27 April)**

**Discussion Prompts:**

  1. First of all, did you enjoy the book? Why/why not?

  2. Who was your favourite character in the book, and what character was the most memorable?

  3. What were some of the main themes of the book in your opinion?

  4. What do you think Austen is trying to tell us about the society this book was set in?

  5. Do you like the way Austen writes? What stands out to you from her writing?

  6. Would you like to read more of Austen’s work in the future? 

  7. Anything else to discuss? Rants encouraged!

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u/awaiko — 25 days ago
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Sense and Sensibility Chapters 49&50 (Spoilers up to Chapter 50)

I’ll put something up for final thoughts and wrap-up tomorrow.

Discussion Prompts:

  1. Well, that happened quickly. Everyone is now oh-so-happy. Too easy, too contrived, or was this the happy ending you were expecting?
  2. And we’re back to Col Brandon and Mrs Jennings (her indignation was most excellent). Oh, and John Dashwood offers his opinions. Machinations are afoot, will there be forgiveness? (Obviously we know because the next chapter is right there!)
  3. Another timeskip, and things are settling well. Edward and Elinor are happy, various relations are content. Robert gets back into his mother’s good graces.
  4. Austen pontificates on Marianne’s role here. (Again, she was seventeen or eighteen for most of this novel!) And we conclude. What did you make of how it wrapped up for the three sisters?
  5. Anything else to discuss?

Links:

Project Gutenberg

Standard eBook

Librivox Audiobook

Final Line:

> … they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.

u/awaiko — 26 days ago