February/George Eliot Reading Poll

[Scheherazade]

In February, the Book Club will be reading one of George Eliot's books, of whom Henry James wrote:

She had a low forehead, a dull grey eye, a vast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone qui n'en finissent pas... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes steals forth and charms the mind, so that you end, as I ended, in falling in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot

If you would like to join us, please vote in the poll!


Middlemarch*

Silas Marner*

The Mill on the Floss*

Adam Bede*

Feliz Holt, the Radical

Daniel Deronda

The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob*

Romola


* = Available on the Forum



Book Club Procedures

[Pensive]

Vote for Mill On The Floss. Its the best novel ever written.

[Shea]

Vote for Mill On The Floss. Its the best novel ever written.

It's on my to-read list. I voted for it.

[Scheherazade]

I have read The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. The first one I found rather stuffy... Somewhat like Hardy's books... Exploring human psyche without much persuasion, I thought. I enjoyed reading the latter better simply because it was a simpler and less pretentious story and told in a more relaxed style.

I would like to read Middlemarch because of its somewhat historical context and significance.

[Pensive]

Thanks people for voting The Mill On The Floss - my favourite novel.

I have read it but I wanna re-read it. There are only a few books which I like to re-read and The Mill On The Floss is one of them (I have not re-read it before)

I guess that Middlemarch will not prove to be bad....but I have not got it....

[papayahed]

My vote goes to the highest bidder..

[Logos]

Pensive, there is a biography and texts of


Adam Bede
Brother Jacob
Middlemarch
Silas Marner
The Lifted Veil
The Mill on the Floss

on this site here --> George Eliot

[emily655321]

Good God, if Mill On The Floss is anything like Hardy, I'll reserve my vote for anything that will beat it! Thanks for the warning, Scher.

[Nightshade]

Humm if I hadnt wasted my vote Id vote Middlemarch now. You know thats the problem with not being able to change your vote.

[papayahed]

Humm if I hadnt wasted my vote Id vote Middlemarch now. You know thats the problem with not being able to change your vote.

exactly....(just be careful you don't wait too long...)

[Pensive]

Logos, thanks but the thing is that I try my best to prevent myself from reading books online. My eyes aches.

On the other hand, I love Mill On The Floss which is my favourite novel. I want to discuss it really very much.

Scher, I did not find it as much complicated as it was depressing.

[Scheherazade]

On the other hand, I love Mill On The Floss which is my favourite novel. I want to discuss it really very much.

Scher, I did not find it as much complicated as it was depressing.

Pensive, I did not think TMOTF was complicated but very much boring because, in my opinion, it did not deliver what it set out to achieve.


Last week of voting, boys and girls!

[Pensive]

Pensive, I did not think TMOTF was complicated but very much boring because, in my opinion, it did not deliver what it set out to achieve.


Last week of voting, boys and girls!

Well, When I read it, I think that I was not mature enough to understand it easily that's why I found it too complicated. As far as I can recall, I don't think that it was boring at all. To me every moment was an excitement. I loved each and every sentence of it. I think that I need to re-read it...

[emily655321]

Okay, I'm voting Middlemarch, just because it stands the greatest chance against Mill on the Floss.

But I'm putting Silas Marner on my "to read" list, 1) because it's an awesome name, and unfortunately I'm a cover-judger; 2) because, of all the synopses, it sounds like the most interesting story.

[Nightshade]

It is emily I saw the wishbone version years ago then read it
But theres also a modern kidsy aaptratin called a twist in time ? I think steve matrtin anyway as Silas marner