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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Òbviament meravellós. Molt més explícit en la seva religiositat que Middlemarch; tanmateix, tot parteix d'un sentiment molt humà. Moralista però ple d'empatia, en la línia de Middlemarch. És la seva primera novel·la publicada; es nota que és prèvia a Middlemarch. Molt més explícita en les seves intencions com a narradora (fomentar l'empatia per crear un món millor, etc...). Veus coses i estratègies que després polirà a la seva obra mestra, però no deixa de ser una delícia de lectura, perquè George Eliot mai em deixa indiferent!
Honestament, sento que per molt que no sigui cristiana, llegir-la em fa millor persona. Si jo tinc una Bíblia definitivament és George Eliot. Al pròleg diuen que és un llibre tenyit de religiositat, però que no és una novel·la cristiana, tot i poder ser una segona Bíblia (i concebut perquè així sigui), però sempre des de l'experiència humana.
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Honestament, sento que per molt que no sigui cristiana, llegir-la em fa millor persona. Si jo tinc una Bíblia definitivament és George Eliot. Al pròleg diuen que és un llibre tenyit de religiositat, però que no és una novel·la cristiana, tot i poder ser una segona Bíblia (i concebut perquè així sigui), però sempre des de l'experiència humana.
:))
Adam Bede is a story about love, self-deception, religious feeling, innocence, and experience. It would not be an unfit introduction to Eliot, though Middlemarch is by far her superior novel. I am awed by Eliot's psychological insight into human personality. Her characters are some of the most vivid in all of literary history, and her ability to penetrate to the very heart of human motivation is unrivaled. She presents her story with wit and subtle sarcasm. (Take, for instance, this tongue-in-cheek comment: "Of course, I know that, as a rule, sensible men fall in love with the most sensible women of their acquaintance, see through all the pretty deceits of coquettish beauty, never imagine themselves loved when they are not loved, cease loving on all proper occasions, and marry the woman most fitted for them in every respect. . . . But even to this rule an exception will occur now and then in the lapse of centuries, and my friend Adam was one.")
Eliot's command of English is deeply impressive, and this book is worth reading just for the beauty of the language. But the story is quite interesting as well, and you will come to care about and sympathize with the characters. It is not a fast paced book, and it will require an investment of time and intellect. But it is well worth reading.
Eliot's command of English is deeply impressive, and this book is worth reading just for the beauty of the language. But the story is quite interesting as well, and you will come to care about and sympathize with the characters. It is not a fast paced book, and it will require an investment of time and intellect. But it is well worth reading.
Not as excellent as Middlemarch. A few characters in Adam Bede are very one dimensional, leaving the ending a bit flat. But Eliot as a writer is still excellent, and even when she is moralizing, she is witty. Her gentleness with Hetty as a character felt very compassionate.
I listened to an old-school audio book version and the first hour-ish was a lot of religious discussion, and I thought I might bail. But, once the story got going, it was a good one...love, longing, mistakes, crimes, and heroism all in one. There's an author's comment in the middle for about an hour that was a little dull, but it was nice for the long drives I've been doing. Learning all about the members of a small community from the Lord down to the dairy maid in England around 1800 was very interesting as well.
Way to rip my heart out and kick me while I’m down.
*2 days later*
I read a 2 star review saying that this book was too long and predictable of a plot and didn’t have enough of Hetty in it. That was very surprising to me because I was sad to close this book, even though for the last 200 hundred pages or so I was sad when opening it too. Elliot is an absolute gift. I am stunned that this is her first novel. She is genuine and insightful and just damn good.
Maybe the plot isn’t all that nuanced, but the characters are someone’s British great, great, great grandparents and their life struggles between handling pain and suffering and bearing the burden of consequences, struggling to do what you want over what you believe is right, and living with the greater impact your actions have on those around you, then learning to forgive - this is the stuff of life and it’s hard but Elliot rights it beautifully and for that alone I love this book, but I love Adam Bede too, even if I’d not get along in real life. He learns and grows in a way I didn’t expect. And Me Irwine, and Mrs Poyser speaking her mind to her family, the squire, the good Dinah, and then in the end being the compassionate one in the family. It’s all real. These things happened and they still do today in different ways. The descriptions of the life changing and heart molding impact of deep suffering is something you can’t help but read and learn from in reverence.
Basically, I am in love with Elliot, and will allow her to continue to break my heart.
*2 days later*
I read a 2 star review saying that this book was too long and predictable of a plot and didn’t have enough of Hetty in it. That was very surprising to me because I was sad to close this book, even though for the last 200 hundred pages or so I was sad when opening it too. Elliot is an absolute gift. I am stunned that this is her first novel. She is genuine and insightful and just damn good.
Maybe the plot isn’t all that nuanced, but the characters are someone’s British great, great, great grandparents and their life struggles between handling pain and suffering and bearing the burden of consequences, struggling to do what you want over what you believe is right, and living with the greater impact your actions have on those around you, then learning to forgive - this is the stuff of life and it’s hard but Elliot rights it beautifully and for that alone I love this book, but I love Adam Bede too, even if I’d not get along in real life. He learns and grows in a way I didn’t expect. And Me Irwine, and Mrs Poyser speaking her mind to her family, the squire, the good Dinah, and then in the end being the compassionate one in the family. It’s all real. These things happened and they still do today in different ways. The descriptions of the life changing and heart molding impact of deep suffering is something you can’t help but read and learn from in reverence.
Basically, I am in love with Elliot, and will allow her to continue to break my heart.
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Oh she is a spectacular writer.
Reminding me a lot of DH Lawrence: complex family relationships, general hardship and Northern language.
Her use of irony is brilliant: father choosing to go out drinking instead of making the coffin he had been contracted to do, drowns in the brook by his house in a drunken stupor.
It’s delightful prose, Eliot really knows how to describe a scene, a character, an interaction. It’s romantic, it’s poetic, it’s splendid.
Hello the romance. She loves to let things cook over the first 80% then it gets very interesting very quickly.
A good book can really take you somewhere special. It’s sensational, it’s absolutely brilliant.
Unbridled drama, theatre, poetry, love, loss, anguish, despair, hope and everything in between.
Absolutely unreal twist in the final 100 pages or so, very much sounding like a case of post-partum psychosis.
The grief, the emotion, the horror, the despair. It’s gripping and cold and addictive and brilliant.
It’s heart-breaking, touching, beautiful.
Reminding me a lot of DH Lawrence: complex family relationships, general hardship and Northern language.
Her use of irony is brilliant: father choosing to go out drinking instead of making the coffin he had been contracted to do, drowns in the brook by his house in a drunken stupor.
It’s delightful prose, Eliot really knows how to describe a scene, a character, an interaction. It’s romantic, it’s poetic, it’s splendid.
Hello the romance. She loves to let things cook over the first 80% then it gets very interesting very quickly.
A good book can really take you somewhere special. It’s sensational, it’s absolutely brilliant.
Unbridled drama, theatre, poetry, love, loss, anguish, despair, hope and everything in between.
Absolutely unreal twist in the final 100 pages or so, very much sounding like a case of post-partum psychosis.
The grief, the emotion, the horror, the despair. It’s gripping and cold and addictive and brilliant.
It’s heart-breaking, touching, beautiful.