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I read Middlemarch a couple of years ago and loved it much more than I was expecting to, and probably more than anything I've read. For a book about some people in a provincial English town getting married, it is amazingly involving, I think because she explores the inner lives of the characters in so much detail and with such empathy.
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I'm reading Middlemarch after hearing a few conversations about it at work (I love working somewhere where I can chat about the Euros and cycling but also about Middlemarch).
It's a huge achievement - George Eliot was superbly well read and the characters are so well observed. It's a giant book but it doesn't feel like a chore at all, I was quite disappointed to reach my tube stop this morning in the middle of a tempestuous political rally.