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runslikesnail 's review for:
Middlemarch
by George Eliot
There are certainly some things I could appreciate about Middlemarch. But for the most part ... it was a slog. Perhaps if I had read it at a different time in my life (although I have tried several different times over the years and given up) - perhaps if I had never seen the BBC mini-series so I wouldn't have known which storylines were only ever going to annoy me. I don't know.
I grew up in a small, provincial town and cannot remember a time when I wasn't itching to get out of there. And that's how I felt about this book. I wanted to slap characters for their ridiculous conformity and others I wanted to rescue by getting them the hell out of that town before their lives took a turn for the disastrous. Bullies and sycophants. Very few characters I could appreciate.
It makes me sad, as I have read and loved other books by George Eliot in my life. But not this one. Nope. I would not have finished it if I hadn't been reading it with a group and felt somehow compelled to slog on through to the end so I could say I'd done it.
Barely 3 stars. I'm feeling generous.
I grew up in a small, provincial town and cannot remember a time when I wasn't itching to get out of there. And that's how I felt about this book. I wanted to slap characters for their ridiculous conformity and others I wanted to rescue by getting them the hell out of that town before their lives took a turn for the disastrous. Bullies and sycophants. Very few characters I could appreciate.
It makes me sad, as I have read and loved other books by George Eliot in my life. But not this one. Nope. I would not have finished it if I hadn't been reading it with a group and felt somehow compelled to slog on through to the end so I could say I'd done it.
Barely 3 stars. I'm feeling generous.