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3.53 AVERAGE
3.53 AVERAGE
challenging
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.
I enjoyed this classic - it is short, beautiful and heartfelt. As with any classic, it is slow paced and clunky at times, but I am learning more and more that sometimes we need to step back and enjoy the simplicity of reading beautiful sentences to connect us back to our past - ignoble as it was most of the time, it's ours to hold and reckon with.
Anyway, enough rambling. This classic moved me.
I enjoyed this classic - it is short, beautiful and heartfelt. As with any classic, it is slow paced and clunky at times, but I am learning more and more that sometimes we need to step back and enjoy the simplicity of reading beautiful sentences to connect us back to our past - ignoble as it was most of the time, it's ours to hold and reckon with.
Anyway, enough rambling. This classic moved me.
After reading Middlemarch in 2016 I was left wanting to read more Eliot. I feel about Silas Marner pretty much the same way I did about Middlemarch, I enjoyed it fine, but I didn't love it. I don't know if I will read any more by her.
One of the only books I read for school that I actually liked.
What a delightful jewel box of a book. The characters are so carefully drawn, the story intruiging. Watching Silas develop and grow from the inward-looking, emotionally stunted miser to the loving and warm father he becomes is a joy. I will enjoy reading this book again, and am off to find myself more George Eliot!
I found it so cute that the little girl gave him so much life.
we love a loving and healthy father and daughter relationship!
I haven't re-read it lately, but loved it in high school and college. Right up there with "Hard Times" on my list of shorter classics I loved.