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An interesting story, although somewhat lacklustre. The lacklustre element is solely due to the inactivity and lethargy of the narrator. He's so bland as to become unlikeable.
The protagonist comes across as a weak, "go with the flow" kind of character. He laments his life, it's turns, etc.......yet does nothing to try to alter anything at all. Which leads to the question of: Could/Should/Would we change our futures if we knew/thought we knew exactly what our future was? Is the future set? Is it ...more
The protagonist comes across as a weak, "go with the flow" kind of character. He laments his life, it's turns, etc.......yet does nothing to try to alter anything at all. Which leads to the question of: Could/Should/Would we change our futures if we knew/thought we knew exactly what our future was? Is the future set? Is it ...more
Totally unexpected that the author of Middlemarch would write something like this: gothic, despairing, creepy. The surprise was nice; unfortunately, this book didn't do much for me. There's just not much story here, and I've already begun to forget it.
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The narrator of this novella has led a sheltered life due to fragile health. He has waking dreams which portend future moments. One of these premonitions reveal that he will marry his secret love, but rather than bliss, he will be miserable because she will despise him. This is the short account of a passive, fatalistic unhappy individual. I don’t know if Eliot anticipated that the average reader would find a curiosity in this character who appears resigned to fate or if she expected that they w
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Read this novella with a group. Most readers concluded that the first half was very intriguing, creepy and promising but the conclusion fell short of expectations.
Oct 05, 2020
Lori
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it was ok
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Gothic horror story. Very unlikable narrator makes it difficult to care what happens.
