You say you wish you had read it years ago, but I ask: would you have enjoyed it as much? My favourite book is great expectations, but I think I read it at a time when I could appreciate it for the way Dickens put so much of his own raw emotions and pain into the story. I could relate to it, and that made it wonderful. It was lighthearted and at the same time so deep. Was the you from five years ago, capable of appreciating it the way you do now?