ishtat
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I have decided upon a rather silly plan of reading the greatest works in genres for which I don't actually care.
To that end, I am going to be reading Middlemarch, something I have never before attempted (no doubt Des would be scandalised were he here) due to my absolute and utter hatred of Victorian realism—really I cannot begin to express how profoundly it is so—but I believe I shall manage. I am sceptical, however, that I am going to come away regarding it as the greatest novel ever written.
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Start with 'Silas Marner' it's much shorter, tho' Middlemarch is easier going than 'Mill on the Floss.