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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
sad
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
dark
funny
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Wonderful book on love, crossing lines and betrayal in a very realistic rural setting. The town of Hayslope and its inhabitants come vividly to live in this enjoyable read. Although called Adam Bede, I feel it's just as much if not more about Hetty Sorrel and the fallout from her decisions, as well as a number of others besides.
Stick with it and you'll be rewarded, although the slow pace of the many pages might not be for everyone.
Stick with it and you'll be rewarded, although the slow pace of the many pages might not be for everyone.
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Well, four star "really liked it" until the final book, at which point Victorian sentimentality caught me off guard. Before that point, however, Adam Bede was both charming and interesting, eventful yet detailed. There are quite a few moments when problems show in Eliot's narration, and some conspicuous gaps in plot, but by and large she pulls it off.
But Seth? C'mon. Realism my ass: Eliot, you're pulling strings there.
But Seth? C'mon. Realism my ass: Eliot, you're pulling strings there.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book takes a turn I did NOT see coming.
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I had just finished reading Middlemarch, which I loved, so I wanted another Eliot, and I picked this one. If I ever read this book before (I don't think so), it would have been in the late 1970s when I was in college. I enjoyed this one as much as I enjoyed Middlemarch. George Eliot had a tremendous gift for language, and she had an equally impressive gift for seeing her fellow human beings and understanding them.