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Middlemarch

George Eliot

Start date: July 1, 2012

Finish date: August 31, 2012

Why we're reading this: This is the group read for July. This also is one of the authors in the author's challenge.…more
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May 22, 2009 Everyman rated it it was amazing

Middlemarch is a rich and rewarding novel, but it is also much more than that. It also chronicles very accurately a time of great changes in English rural (or as Eliot calls it, Provincial) life. Eliot's meticulous research assures the reader that the events she moves her characters through give a detailed picture of significant developments in society, politics, and medicine during the early 1830s.

Middlemarch is not an easy book to read. Eliot is of the most intellectually capable writers that ...more

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Feb 06, 2011 Laura rated it liked it · review of another edition

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Dorothea Brooke yearns to right society's wrongs in 1830s England and Dr Lydgate arrives. Stars Roger Allam and Candida Benson.

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Jul 01, 2009 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Aug 08, 2012 LK Hunsaker added it

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I just can't finish this one. Slow is fine with me as long as there is a reason. Dry, I can usually handle, although like wine I'd prefer it not dry. I'm several chapters in and I just can't care about any of the characters. There was one of the stories I started to care about and then it cut off to someone else. I don't care enough to wade through the wandering prose and extraneous, uninteresting details to get there. If I ever change my mind and finish this, I'll come update. ...more

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Oct 10, 2012 Kel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Absolute genius.

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Feb 05, 2012 Janie rated it really liked it

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I'd like to come back to this review in a couple of days. For now, though, I'll say this book seems near perfect. The resolution was so satisfying. The entirety of book viii was so exciting. It wasn't until I got to that point in the book that I really loved it. Eliot is a master word language sculpted and plot weaver. The weakest element is her characterizations, but that's only relative to how wonderful everything really was. I still loved the characters. ...more

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