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4.06 AVERAGE
4.06 AVERAGE
challenging
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Slow paced, for the first 3/4 of the book it was boring, like it led to nowhere but as I started getting more progress I started liking the story and the characters more. Other than having horrible characters like rosamond (I tried to give her a chance multiple times, but the girl didn’t help), and James (stfu, who do you think you are. Why do you even think you have the damn right to make decisions on someone’s else behalf, she’s just your sister in law. F*ck off.)
Yea they pissed me way too much. The writing is amazing though. The way Eliot described and narrated the whole story and the meanings is incredible. And bro, the misogyny???? I get it, it’s the Victorian era, women weren’t even supposed to think for themselves, but come on…
Yea they pissed me way too much. The writing is amazing though. The way Eliot described and narrated the whole story and the meanings is incredible. And bro, the misogyny???? I get it, it’s the Victorian era, women weren’t even supposed to think for themselves, but come on…
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I've been rereading this in between books this year and it's just as good as I remembered it. The story is of a man and a woman who, in their separate paths, are trying to make a positive impact on the world and their struggles to do so. It's very psychologically astute with the characters, but the writing is sometimes a little Victorian-era dense for me. Not enough to not recommend it though.
emotional
reflective
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:
Complicated
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
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:
Complicated
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
medium-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
emotional
reflective
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
It took me a while to get into the spirit of the book, and I found the last fifth or so to be a bit disappointing. Closer to 3.5, but I think for the time especially it was very daring and funny.
It was fun to read after "Shame" because it followed the tone of grandiose-vocabulary-hiding-satire with occasional innocent and yet even more cutting remarks from the 1st person narrator that both made the text quite dense and also made understanding the humor more satisfying because of it. I think it could be compared to Austen, but the characters are much more flawed and the ending was much more complicated. There's also a stronger class and gender analysis, as well as droll and still timely observations about the politics of the time.
Reading about the author made the book more interesting: Mary Anne Evans was much braver than her characters and lived a very interesting life that included an openly nonmonogamous marriage and second lover, with children from both. The digs about marriage, monogamy, and useless rules-for-rules-sake felt much richer from the point of view of a polygamous feminist and made me wonder all the more how she did it.
It was fun to read after "Shame" because it followed the tone of grandiose-vocabulary-hiding-satire with occasional innocent and yet even more cutting remarks from the 1st person narrator that both made the text quite dense and also made understanding the humor more satisfying because of it. I think it could be compared to Austen, but the characters are much more flawed and the ending was much more complicated. There's also a stronger class and gender analysis, as well as droll and still timely observations about the politics of the time.
Reading about the author made the book more interesting: Mary Anne Evans was much braver than her characters and lived a very interesting life that included an openly nonmonogamous marriage and second lover, with children from both. The digs about marriage, monogamy, and useless rules-for-rules-sake felt much richer from the point of view of a polygamous feminist and made me wonder all the more how she did it.