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This was a chunkster book – over 60 hours on the Audible version. The narration by Juliet Stevenson was wonderful; I think she’s one of my most favorite narrators! I don’t know if I could have “read” the book due to the vocabulary and dialogue, but by listening to the Audible version I had no problems. I enjoyed the story, very much a “Pride and Prejudice” type of book. George Eliot’s writing is magnificent and linguistically superior to that which is written today, in my humble opinion. My favo
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I love Eliot's writing but this one just didn't work for me. Way too much dialogue; sometimes we even jump right into the middle of conversations. That said, there was too much "telling" and not enough "showing" -- so I suppose much of the "telling" must have been in the voluminous dialogue. And the content of the dialogue was tiresome for me, often silly or gossipy girl talk - which is okay to a point but it seemed interminable.
Plenty of Eliot fans love this one, so I'm clearly the oddball here ...more
Plenty of Eliot fans love this one, so I'm clearly the oddball here ...more
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