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Middlemarch by Mary Ann Evans, George Eliot

3 reviews

tenar's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Antisemitism

Moderate: Misogyny, Ableism, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Religious bigotry, Medical content, and Miscarriage

Minor: Death of parent, Alcohol, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Drug use, Cancer, Alcoholism, Colonisation, and Murder

thecriticalreader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Middlemarch by George Eliot is the best book I’ve ever read. I could spend paragraphs upon paragraphs expounding on how spectacular, transcendent, and astonishingly perfect this book is. Or, I can accept that I don’t have the words to do it justice, and remain quietly thankful that this book exists and that I’m alive to read (and re-read) it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Religious bigotry, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Medical content, Xenophobia, Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Grief, Death, Classism, and Alcohol

Minor: Antisemitism

Gambling

skudiklier's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Okay, wow. I enjoyed this book a lot more than it seems other people do. It's my favorite college professor's favorite book, and she regularly brought it up in classes, so it's been on my tbr list for years. I didn't know how long or intricate it was, but I'm glad I didn't know anything really going in.

Halfway through I had to make a list of characters I actually liked, since several of them fell into a category of something like "I root for them in spite of not really liking them." But it all progressed in a much better way than I thought it would. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Antisemitism, Death, Grief, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Drug use, Infidelity, Medical content, Miscarriage, Murder, Religious bigotry, and Suicidal thoughts

These are just the more specific content warnings I wrote down while reading the book:

Anti-Romani slurs, antisemitism, racial slurs, Antiziganism, anti-Romanyism, miscarriage, illness, death, medical content, drug use, gambling, ableism