Middlemarch, Volume I Audiobook (Unabridged)

" It's ok to be ordinary! "

" If I could give this 3.5 I would. The characters and detailed examination of different aspects of rural life at the time are fantastic. However, it's basically a soap opera in written form with the consequence that the plot gets a little disjointed and loopy. "

" This was a wonderful book beautifully written though I wondered how Dorothea could be so misguided in her opinion of Casaubon. "

" Finally finished this - after over 2 months! What a wonderful book. Great characters, good plot(s). George Eliot is a fantastic writer. Her work is timeless and has as much to say now as it did when it was written. Definitely worth the effort. "

" This was a really dense book. Some of the Beekman Library Book Club Members could not get through it. If you manage to stick with it though, you will really feel like a member of the community. It is a slice of 1830s life in the small fictional English town of Middlemarch. "

" "One of the few English novels written for grown-up people", according to Virginia Wolff, and great big novels of ideas and people in a small town. Dorothea Brooke is one of the great women in 19th century English fiction, and this assuredly one of England's finest feels like 300 rather than 840 pages. "

" I found this one a harder tale to become immersed in than some I have listened to lately (on audio book). I perhaps need to try again in hard copy... "

" OMG. 1,000 pages of awesome. How did I spend so much of my life with this unread? "

" DeathMarch! I'm dumping this half-way through "

" Having guiltily left this sitting on my 'Books I really should have read by now shelf' for far too long, I can now move it to my 'Classics that I absolutely love' shelf. "

" I haven't read this since my Late-Victorian literature class at the University of Colorado. I'm finding it interesting how I see the characters so differently after 22 years. "

" This book was a great mix between Jane Austin and Tolstoy. The stories between characters were similar to Austin while there was a lot more background, politics, and multiple story lines, like Tolstoy. I really enjoyed this book! Great read! "

" If I were in Purgatory and the only way out was to read this book again, I'd sit there and roast. "

" The novel commenced in quite a dull way and this tainted further reading of the novel for me. I found it to be a little dull in parts, but the storyline picked up towards the end. However I was relieved to finish it and most likely would not read it again. "

" Long, long book, but beautiful language, good stroy and characters. "

" I seem to have a hard time concentrating on these classic ENGLISH novels. It's like reading Shakespeare ...written in a different time with the boring seriousness typical of these novels. Maybe I'll pick it up again someday but for now this will be gathering some more dust! "

" The first half of "Middlemarch" has raised my interest onto a status, that I have finished it much earlier than thought before - the complete review will follow as soon as I've read the second tome! "