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mattmatros 's review for:
Silas Marner
by George Eliot
My expectations were enormous given how much I enjoyed Middlemarch earlier this year. Perhaps unsurprisingly then, this novel fell well short. The complexity of the human beings that inhabit Middlemarch was sorely lacking from the characters in this novel, most of whom felt pretty one note. Even the plot failed to have a satisfying payoff--the entire backstory set up by the beginning of the book is essentially orphaned by the rest of the novel. Silas Marner reads like a desperate attempt by Eliot to give a loner central character a child, no matter what convoluted plot turns and lazy characterizations were needed to get there. I only rate it as high as three stars because I suspect I'm being too harsh.