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Adam Bede by George Eliot
3.5
dark funny reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

 “Yes! Thank God; human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty—it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it... "

I really think the book's title should be Hetty Sorrel instead of Adam Bede. The whole book mostly talks a lot about her beauty anyway. She is also the one who struggled the most, while Adam Bede's most difficult dilemma is a broken heart.

This book is so dense but in some chapters, I felt cosy reading it. A small community with a lot of characters, complaining mothers, and vain girls, in some way, reading this felt like home. However, I have to complain that Dinah's sermon is really, really long. I almost stopped reading.

I didn't hate it but I didn't particularly like it either.

PS: I believe Seth Bede is an angel.