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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
emotional
hopeful
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:
No
Eh, modern editing would crank this baby back to like 90 pages probably. :) For a while, we figured the title should have been Godfrey Cass, but it slowly earned its title. Decent story buried in all the superfluous, I'm sure there's English major/professor types that would be like, "but there's so much wisdom if you parsed it all out," but modern gal that I am, I'd rather have my hard core preached at didactic lessons to be in my nonfiction and so I just read it with my brain almost turned off to get back to actual plot points. Call me shallow if you want, but hey. The lesson would have come just as well if the characters where deeper and we truly got involved with their lives. Like learning Mrs. Cass's singular moral thoughts through actually seeing her talk about them and do them would have had more of an impact than saying she thought this and did this for the past 16 years which we just skipped over. Sometimes I think I'm being too harsh on the older authors, but there are contemporaries of this author, or even those before her that do a better job of it. So, this one wasn't for me, but I didn't close the book and wished I got my time back from, so there's that! :) I'd probably have been fine reading a cliffnotes version to just have this book's plot in my knowledge bank.
Found this very meandering and hard to concentrate on in the beginning. It really picked up in the second half when all of the threads started to come together. I enjoyed the fairy tale feel to the narrative and it's moral centre. I think that books from this period are just not really my thing.
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
life bumming you out? get yourself a street baby
hopeful
inspiring
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:
Complicated
slow-paced
‰ЫПI suppose one reason why we are seldom able to comfort our neighbours with our words is that our goodwill gets adulterated, in spite of ourselves, before it can pass our lips. We can send black puddings and pettitoes without giving them a flavour of our own egoism; but language is a stream that is almost sure to smack of a mingled soil.‰Ыќ
This book feels like a mix of Heidi and The Christmas Carol. There are many plots which follow the idea of a young child changing the life of an old, unfriendly man. While this is not an extremely unique plot, it is one of the first books written which uses this trope quite effectively. Perhaps it is the contrast–a sweet child and a cold old man–or perhaps it is that happy feeling when someone changes for the better. The only thing I disliked about this book is that there is a lot of set-up before Silas finds the child, and then the story simply skips until she is eighteen. I would have liked to see their bond grow more instead of a few pages of a brief summery. However, this is such a sweet story.
Full review on my blog: https://madamewriterblog.com/2019/07/06/book-review-silas-marner-by-george-eliot/
Full review on my blog: https://madamewriterblog.com/2019/07/06/book-review-silas-marner-by-george-eliot/
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
To slow paced for me and I did it fully I have with the plot as found it too wrapped in religious undertones
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes