October 21, 2012
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Week 43: Middlemarch
“I wonder if any other girl thinks her father the best man in the world!”
“Nonsense, child; you’ll think your husband better.
“Impossible,” said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; “husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order.”
I had been wanting to read Middlemarch for a long time, and now that I’m finished I think I would class it as one of my favorite books. It has that same feel as Pride and Prejudice, except I remember hating P&P the first time through and not really appreciating it until afterwards. The characters in Middlemarch are less exasperating, with just as much drama, I think.Everything you think might happen to create conflict pretty much happens, but even expecting it doesn’t make it stale when you read it, which is a measure of success as well.
Anyway. Classic sort of BritLit novel. I didn’t like it quite as much as The Portrait of a Lady but it has that same sort of appeal to me.
