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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
Being a knitter myself and loving everything related to textiles, I find it so interesting that Silas Marner is a weaver.
It’s a sweet and heartwarming novel.
It’s a sweet and heartwarming novel.
funny
hopeful
medium-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
Hmmmm….liked this book…..a story about an innocent man, Silas Marner, wronged by his best friend, turned away by his betrothed and suspended from church membership. With a broken heart and a disillusioned view of the world, he begins a solitary life in the new country of Raveloe. For fifteen years, he lives alone, sitting at his loom 16 hours a day, weaving linen for the towns people and counting his gold. The towns people, not knowing where he came from, or who his people are, view him with distrust and suspicion. Another devasting blow in his faith of humanity is dealt to him when his gold is stolen. Such begins a turn of events where those people wronged are vindicated and those who have sinned get their just due.
George Eliot has a fantastic grasp on human nature, and as in Middlemarch, she does an excellent job of developing meaningful characters and strengthening their personalities through anecdotes which display various human weaknesses and strengths.
Also like Middlemarch, Silas Marner is loaded with longer than long sentences which often have words that contradict each other. Many times I found myself reading the same sentence three times and having to cancel out certain words just to get the meaning. Although her sidebars of human nature descriptions were long winded, and sometimes tedious to read, they were almost always enlightening, and I found myself turning page corners to mark pages quite often.
All that being said, the storyline was good, the characters quite fleshed out, the overall message presented very well, but the long sentences (and words) made this book a little less enjoyable to me than I think it would have been without them. It's kind of a catch-22 because her insights are fabulous and truly insightful, but sometimes so painful to read that by the time you figure them out, the emotion of the insight is lost or doesn't have quite as big an impact as it should. Anyway…..I gave it 4 stars, but it is really more like 3.5-3.75 stars in my world.
George Eliot has a fantastic grasp on human nature, and as in Middlemarch, she does an excellent job of developing meaningful characters and strengthening their personalities through anecdotes which display various human weaknesses and strengths.
Also like Middlemarch, Silas Marner is loaded with longer than long sentences which often have words that contradict each other. Many times I found myself reading the same sentence three times and having to cancel out certain words just to get the meaning. Although her sidebars of human nature descriptions were long winded, and sometimes tedious to read, they were almost always enlightening, and I found myself turning page corners to mark pages quite often.
All that being said, the storyline was good, the characters quite fleshed out, the overall message presented very well, but the long sentences (and words) made this book a little less enjoyable to me than I think it would have been without them. It's kind of a catch-22 because her insights are fabulous and truly insightful, but sometimes so painful to read that by the time you figure them out, the emotion of the insight is lost or doesn't have quite as big an impact as it should. Anyway…..I gave it 4 stars, but it is really more like 3.5-3.75 stars in my world.
I give this a marginal rating because it is just not my kind of book. Not something I can get lost in. Great message, but the writing was a little too much for me.
I'm going to have to think about this one for a while because there is so much going on here.
I don't usually listen to audiobooks, but I did with this one, and I think it was a good choice. If I had read this I think I would have been bogged down trying to look up every footnote. I was able to hear the dialect. Honestly, not my favorite, but I enjoyed more than I had expected to.
This book was recommended to me by someone who had studied it in school, so i had been wary at first; academic novels sometimes being a bit of a trial. However I found this novel incredibly endearing, with a storyline and characters that you grow quite attached to. I often find classical literature hard to understand but this book consisted of very small chapters, making for easy to digest reading. The main character of the book is what really interested me, to the point where I felt so sorry for him I had to keep reading just to see him through to the light at the end of the tunnel!
I read Silas Marner back in 6th grade. It mainly talks about family and love and how you shouldn't judge someone based on rumours and that you should help people as much as you can. Never be greedy and spread love. :)