“Middlemarch” by  George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)

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Dorothea is a bit too perfect but I ended up enjoying this a lot. The thing about ‘Middlemarch’ people it’s that even the ones that are quite rebellious to other middlemarchers seem not quite rebellious enough to us but I ended quite worried about their fate, which is not little. I’m also a ( Read more... )

24.09.2012

Protagonist is super annoying brat who is ‘sensitive’, which was the Romantic take of EMO teenagers.  Being now almost done with Middlemarch, I can say that Eliot can write but this was boring and hard to finish and the resources and plots that a prescient character offer were completely wasted in making the situation more tragic. ( Read more... )