Quote Originally Posted by concerned View Post
imho, yes. i had to read barchester towers in college and thought i would die. id you have never read Middlemarch, i highly recommend it. it is my favorite victorian novel, including Dickens.
That one's on my list now. Thanks. The only Eliot I've ever read is Silas Marner. Meanwhile I decided to try Thomas Hardy again -- The Mayor of Casterbridge. Dr. Scanlon always talked about it but I thought I was too cool to read it.