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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
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:
No
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Love a classic that reminds us that we've always been the same dumb, beautiful humans.
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
This was a perfect pandemic read. I read a chapter most mornings, and since they are very short it took months. I wish I had thought to highlight all the sentences I loved but here are a few:
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time..
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if were being gradually re
absorbed.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
..to most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable- else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time..
To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if were being gradually re
absorbed.
Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.
..to most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable- else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?
challenging
reflective
This is definitely a 5-star book. And Mary Ann Evans is definitely a 5-star writer. Despite the density of the novel, and the density of the language, and how buttoned-up it feels, completely avoiding any wild, visceral thrills, this decidedly unsexy novel is astonishing. Its effect feels like the literary equivalent of looking at those 3D image stereograms. You know, those seemingly abstract images that if you manage to alter your focus to a more distant point beyond the flat plane, a 3D image starts to appear. There are so many words in this novel and after a while, having relaxed into its rhythm, a really rich, textured and incredibly nuanced 3D world starts to appear; the world of Middlemarch. Its one of those "not much happens" but a lot happens, kind of books. But it's not so much that each character is fleshed out with astonishing insight and wisdom.... (an amount that no human has any right to have access to!).... but what's more impressive, and more moving in a way, is the way the narrative conveys the gravitational effect of one character's life-decisions on the other characters. So that it feels almost planetary.