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lee_foust 's review for:
The Mill on the Floss
by George Eliot
Well, it wasn't quite perfect--that is to say I loved the early childhood sections, identified so closely with Maggie's struggles to please others, which always backfired on her, but, as the kids grew and their stories diverged and the father's never quite adequately explained lawsuits ruined the family and the disparate threads of the narrative spread out they kind of lost me for a while--but the ending is so startlingly beautiful and such a wonderful way to bring the river metaphor to a perfectly satisfying end I just have to give it five stars. Also, as I've said before, any book that makes me cry. I finished the last page with the tears streaming, looked up at my wife, and said, "Fuck this book." High praise indeed. It really made me suffer. I felt like I was a third man visiting Maggie Tulliver's grave as the years waned, the moss and grass grew up over it, and that I always will be from now on. For the reader outlives even the oldest characters of a novel.