Comments on: Review: "Middlemarch" by George Eliot http://girlebooks.com/blog/free-ebooks/middlemarch-by-george-eliot/ Tue, 15 May 2012 16:57:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Laura McDonald http://girlebooks.com/blog/free-ebooks/middlemarch-by-george-eliot/comment-page-1/#comment-8086 Laura McDonald Tue, 31 May 2011 20:07:27 +0000 http://girlebooks.com/blog/?p=26#comment-8086 Dorothea is great because she's very conservative, but Eliot makes you see her point of view so clearly that she's not annoyingly so. I love that Eliot enables the reader to sympathize with all the characters, even the "bad" ones. I truly felt for Bulstrode at the end! Though I love Austen to pieces, I find her sympathy for characters (especially the "bad" ones) lacking compared to Eliot's. Dorothea is great because she's very conservative, but Eliot makes you see her point of view so clearly that she's not annoyingly so. I love that Eliot enables the reader to sympathize with all the characters, even the "bad" ones. I truly felt for Bulstrode at the end! Though I love Austen to pieces, I find her sympathy for characters (especially the "bad" ones) lacking compared to Eliot's.

]]> By: JaneGS http://girlebooks.com/blog/free-ebooks/middlemarch-by-george-eliot/comment-page-1/#comment-8085 JaneGS Tue, 31 May 2011 15:15:34 +0000 http://girlebooks.com/blog/?p=26#comment-8085 I often say that Austen is my favorite author, but Middlemarch is my favorite book. I love your comments about it being made for an e-reader. I'm planning on rereading it later this year, and maybe I will try it on my new iPad. Like you, I find all the characters so interesting and real, and Dorothea is one of my favorite heroines of all literature. I often say that Austen is my favorite author, but Middlemarch is my favorite book. I love your comments about it being made for an e-reader. I'm planning on rereading it later this year, and maybe I will try it on my new iPad.

Like you, I find all the characters so interesting and real, and Dorothea is one of my favorite heroines of all literature.

]]> By: Joyce McDonald http://girlebooks.com/blog/free-ebooks/middlemarch-by-george-eliot/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Joyce McDonald Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:44:18 +0000 http://girlebooks.com/blog/?p=26#comment-5 "The Ultimate Longhorn Reading List", published in the May/June 2007 issue of the University of Texas ex-students' Association magazine, "Alcalde" lists "Middlemarch as one of the 89 ultimate must-reads. One contributor commented that Virginia Woolf once observed "this is the only novel ever written for a grown-up readership!" "The Ultimate Longhorn Reading List", published in the May/June 2007 issue of the University of Texas ex-students' Association magazine, "Alcalde" lists "Middlemarch as one of the 89 ultimate must-reads. One contributor commented that Virginia Woolf once observed "this is the only novel ever written for a grown-up readership!"

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