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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
I can't think of this book without thinking about Andrew's annoyance with the title. Which is totally justified, as this is the least helpful title in the history of literature.
Maybe one day I'll read Middlemarch, but if it's anything like Mill on the Floss then I'll hate it.
Maybe one day I'll read Middlemarch, but if it's anything like Mill on the Floss then I'll hate it.
Real score 3.85. How depressing. I did a quiz today that was something to do with what kind of a plot person you are. One of the questions attempted to discern the level at which you were able to see where the plot was going to end up. I wavered between knowing mid way what would happen in the end, and knowing in the last few pages. With this book I watched the pages counting down and couldn’t find a resolution that would work in the time that was left. I did not guess it would be what it was! Saying that, it also, in the way of classics, took an awfully long time to get there!!! Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it.
*2.5 stars*
George Eliot is undoubtedly an incredible writer, but my experience with this book can be boiled down to “yeah ok I get it you can write a damn good sentence but I really do not have any desire to actually read this.”
George Eliot is undoubtedly an incredible writer, but my experience with this book can be boiled down to “yeah ok I get it you can write a damn good sentence but I really do not have any desire to actually read this.”
I'm abandoning this for now. I constantly had a terrible urge to skip pages because there was so much I just didn't care about. Since there wasn't a lot left I peeked the ending in Wikipedia and... haha, how fitting!
Absolutely gorgeous prose but Eliot's narrator is apt to cause some vexation...
DNFed-I had to read this for a book club. I found it very boring, the plot just dragged and I had no interest in the characters at all. I think as this is not my first attempt at trying to read George Eliot’s work that her writing style is just not for me as I have enjoyed many other Victorian writers and novels but not hers so far.