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This was a very difficult book to read and the story started out pretty slowly. The characters were very well-written, but the language was pretty over-the-top. I didn't start really enjoying the story until towards the end.
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Sep 25, 2023
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it was amazing
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"It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
This was a fantastic reading experience -- exactly what I hope for when I read. George Eliot was ahead of her time on feminism and on the skill of writing too. She builds on what Dickens did for rounding out characters and applies it to women too, giving them carefully realistic agency in their lives that was a breath of fresh air.
She dives deeply into her characters' motivations and psychological states to round ou ...more
This was a fantastic reading experience -- exactly what I hope for when I read. George Eliot was ahead of her time on feminism and on the skill of writing too. She builds on what Dickens did for rounding out characters and applies it to women too, giving them carefully realistic agency in their lives that was a breath of fresh air.
She dives deeply into her characters' motivations and psychological states to round ou ...more
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