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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
Well, this took a while!
It's beatiful, in parts, and also boring, in parts; you never know which it will be when you start a new chapter. It's a satisfyingly woven story in the end, and its array of vivid characters is impressive; one does really feel as if one has inhabited the place. However, the little gems of beautiful passages or insightful observations come at a price. Unfortunately, there is only so much care I can muster for the problems of middling English aristocrats in the 1830s, which are discussed at length and from all viewpoints throughout the book.
(Listened to the audiobook version, amazingly narrated by Maureen O'Brien.)
It's beatiful, in parts, and also boring, in parts; you never know which it will be when you start a new chapter. It's a satisfyingly woven story in the end, and its array of vivid characters is impressive; one does really feel as if one has inhabited the place. However, the little gems of beautiful passages or insightful observations come at a price. Unfortunately, there is only so much care I can muster for the problems of middling English aristocrats in the 1830s, which are discussed at length and from all viewpoints throughout the book.
(Listened to the audiobook version, amazingly narrated by Maureen O'Brien.)