[squarebarb]

I guess I will try to get through Middlemarch again, but it's hard going. I can't figure out why it's supposed to be so good. So I'll try again and keep telling myself, 'This is a masterpiece! This is a masterpiece!'

[Tanniker Smith]

I guess I will try to get through Middlemarch again,

Hey, what a co-incidence! I'm reading a book so dry that I'll be lucky to be through it by Middle March!

(Sorry, had to. It's been one of those days!)

[linda_22003]

Not everything is a masterpiece for YOU. I have a 50 page rule on books (100 pages for really long books), and a half-hour rule on movies. If it's not working for me at that point, I bail.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...Middlemarch...like a lot of masterpieces, it only shows up in a few lines in the last paragraph - but you probably don't appreciate it until you get there.....