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3.66k reviews for:
Middlemarch: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics)
George Eliot
4.06 AVERAGE
3.66k reviews for:
Middlemarch: (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classics)
George Eliot
4.06 AVERAGE
reflective
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
I hate to do this but I’m just not excited at all to pick up this book again, and life is too short… DNF
I was not as enthralled with Middlemarch as I would have liked. And but for Mr. Garth, I found pretty much all the characters exasperatingly stupid, or at least wrongly-motivated. So happy to be finished.
"А какво всъщност представлява портретът на една жена? Боите и глината в края на краищата са неподходящ материал. Те само замъгляват и принизяват идеите, вместо да ги извисят. Езикът е далече по-изтънчено средство."
Eliot takes her sweet time building up to the morally gripping events of the last quarter of the book, but the generally high quality of the writing lessens the burden of the book's length. What particularly struck me were the strength of the women and the power of speech (gossip vs. things that cannot be said even in intimate conversation).
death march through middlemarch round 2 complete. this book is so good (with very boring bits interspersed)
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's Middlemarch. Arguably the best novel of all time. My children have agreed to put "Read Middlemarch" on my gravestone when I die.
adventurous
challenging
lighthearted
medium-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
De taal is best complex maar het is een heerlijk boek en een hele wereld om al die pagina's lang in te verdwijnen. Met al die gelaagde karakters. Met af en toe van die fantastische zinnen - "a mind weighted down with unpublished matter" (Ch 20) - "will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self." - "there was something horrible to Dorothea in the sensation which this unresponsive hardness inflicted on her. That is a strong word, but not too strong: it is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge." Die heerlijke alwetende verteller die zo even levenswaarheden opeist.
slow-paced
Took some time for me to get used to the language, but I’m very happy to have read this book. Although this setting and subject matter are not the most engaging for me, I really appreciated the complexity of Eliot’s characters. She is able to portray the multiplicity of a person’s thoughts and feelings in a way I have not seen from any other writer. Every character in Middlemarch seems a fully formed individual person.