Hate pretty much all of the characters for their melodrama, but absolutely loving the story. I mean I don’t hate the characters as characters but really as people. And that to me is the sign of great writing, if you can craft characters that have compelling narratives but are auch flawed people. And they are are all so assured of their own superiority, thinking they are just so above everyone else and their petty carers. Ugh, being the reader is like, please just a little self reflection. I’m getting close to finishing it and need my next fix of society snobbery. Thinking either Vanity Fair or maybe Northanger Abbey.
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Growing up in a small village where lots of people just… stay, this is one of my favorite books of all time.
Captures a lot of incredibly vivid, nuanced details of the decisions people make and why in that sort of limited environment, and the long-term emotional fallout of those decisions after characters have a few more life experiences and their perspective changes.
Northanger Abbey will always be one I would recommend. It’s also vastly superior to Middlemarch.
And I liked Middlemarch overall, although yeah, the characters were so annoying, I just wanted to shake them to their senses.