A year ago, I started and put down this book after a hundred pages. So, going into this for a second try, I didn’t have high expectations. But even with this perspective, I still had a lot of difficulty understanding this book. It was very dense, and it also came off as pretentious, particularly in ...
Much to say. Proper review to come. This three-star rating may rise to four, once I think a bit more about its subtleties. There are many pleasures here, and lots to love: the ironic and cutting humour; the wonderful characters - Mrs. Cadwallader and Mr. Brooke almost Dickensian in their idiosync...
Middlemarch is quite a long book. The first half left me a bit bored, but the second half picked up nicely. I never got the impression the book dragged on, nothing seemed extraneous, but it was all so long there were times I got tired.Dorothea and Lydgate are the two main characters, with a few seco...
I've come to a realization: Charles Dickens is not my favorite Victorian. I'm 50/50 on Anthony Trollope so far, and this was only my first George Eliot, but the two of them are just so much better than Dickens when it comes to describing fully-realized human beings of both sexes. Not that Dickens is...
I was wavering at around 4 - 4.5 stars on this, but in the end I have to give it a full 5. _Middlemarch_ by George Eliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) is, first and last, an extraordinary achievement. Other writers have worked with a large and varied cast. Other writers have written social commentaries wit...
Just ask yourself this: when was the last time you read a book where EVERY character was multifaceted, EVERY character was fully developed, and EVERY character had a fully realized character arc? Even a third-person narrator?Yes, it is long and daunting, but absolutely rewarding and absolutely worth...
Here's another author that has had me intimidated for years and now I can't understand why - other than the covers of the book being so far apart. Middlemarch is a complex book, with 4 or 5 plots interwoven with 2 or 3 minor threads. But it moves well and is amazingly well-constructed. Though we fol...
This was a big struggle to me; I could not deal with more than 3-4 chapters a day so it took me a long white to finish. Not only was it a big & thick book but also the fact that I just did not care a fig for any of the characters bar one. I suffer through skim-reading over other characters to get ...
First sentence: "Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."P. 99: "'I am not ungrateful, sir, I never meant to show disregard for any kind intentions you might have towards me.'"Last sentence: "But the effect of those being around her was incalculably di...
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