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An amazing piece of work that is well-researched, thought-out and perceptive in its depiction of the provincial life in Middlemarch and its inhabitants.
I really enjoyed the characters in the story and how they reacted to the events that took place around them or changed their status. What happens if the ideals that we seek are not met? What happens when we marry for love but the person whom we married makes us feel less positive about ourselves? How do we keep progressing as a society in a way t ...more
I really enjoyed the characters in the story and how they reacted to the events that took place around them or changed their status. What happens if the ideals that we seek are not met? What happens when we marry for love but the person whom we married makes us feel less positive about ourselves? How do we keep progressing as a society in a way t ...more
I've come to think that for goodreads the reviews are usually for folks considering to read a book - so I'll write in a way to not include spoilers.
Read this book. Make an effort. It's worth it.
Other reviews have used the word 'genius' and I have to say I agree. There's an incredible energy and wisdom that moves the words to sentences, the sentences to pages and the pages to form a book that is full of interconnected, flawed, beautiful and unpredictable life. But really the experience of this ...more
Read this book. Make an effort. It's worth it.
Other reviews have used the word 'genius' and I have to say I agree. There's an incredible energy and wisdom that moves the words to sentences, the sentences to pages and the pages to form a book that is full of interconnected, flawed, beautiful and unpredictable life. But really the experience of this ...more
This book has several delightful sections that I would give five stars, but it’s a bit long. It was a bit slow introducing all of the characters and only a few of them I liked right away. I really enjoyed the ending with all of the scandal and romances. This is a proper book written in the late 1800s and so there is nothing inappropriate. George Eliot’s writing is similar to Jane Austen’s and other classic writers. There a few of her descriptions that explain situation so cleverly and well, that
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Middlemarch puts most of what I've read to shame. I can almost see its neighbors on my bookshelf (sorry Dave Eggers and Bret Easton Ellis) leaning away to avoid comparison. Yes, it is over 800 pages, but every page moves the book forward and each chapter contains more wisdom and depth of insight than most great novels. Funny, intricately plotted, and frighteningly intelligent. Probably what stood out most for me was the precision with which Eliot rendered the internal lives and relationships of
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