ITT: classics no one has read, and those who say they have are lying

I’m about halfway through it right now. Some parts are way more interesting than others but I’ll grant George Eliot the realism is on point. I’ll finish before next week is over.

you know I read a book once

I’ve read them. Perhaps the only truly happy work in the English canon.

this used to be a Yea Forums staple, considered in the top 3 greatest English novels with Ulysses and Moby Dick.
anons used to post passages to encourage people to read it and they were always great. i'm still working through her shorter stuff first.

that was back when Yea Forums used to read

The Penguin edition has footnotes for all the words that don't just look like misspellings to me

astrophil?

Read them. (In french.)

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>If I don't read it/get it/like it, nobody did, and anybody who did is just pretending
Absolutely fucking pathetic, get out

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i've seen agents (yes i'm a failed writefag) who have said this is their favorite book. right alongside harry potter and game of thrones. i don' tknow how i should interpret that

I've read it, but if you don't want to bother the correct opinion is that it's better than all of Jane Austen's books put together. So if you want to signal how smart you are, when someone gushes about Pride and Prejudice or whatever you one-up them by saying you preferred Middlemarch.

I read the Middle English in an interlinear translation. Took a bit, but after a while I wasn't reading the modern English. Main difference was everything is weirdly spelled.

Never tried middlemarch, but I liked Austen and the Brontes. It seems i should try it.

I enjoyed it
I was more into the doctor’s story than the religious girl
And the ne’er-do-well son who almost inherits his way out of trouble but gets fucked over by the will.
And the politics stuff was occasionally funny.

It's not really one-upmanship when you expose yourself as a brainlet. Austen and Eliot wrote decades apart from each other and are completely different writers in different genres and styles with nothing in common with each other but having tits. It's like comparing Henry James with Burroughs on the grounds they were both gay Americans.

It was okay.

All the same elements. English """culture""", political drama that misunderstands politics, unhappy relationships and the accompanying memes, etc. Not really my cup of tea, but I see why YA readers would love it.

middlemarch is probably the best book ever written in english

I'm at the first few chapters. I think she's amazingly good at capturing mental states but I'm feeling the self-insert Mary figure with Dorothea so I'm skeeving about it

If she ends up with that old religious fart I'm going to sigh internally

No one has read it in its entirety. It's great though.

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I don’t know that she’s a self insert.
She comes across as a decent person but willfull to the point of foolishness.

I've read Mill on the Floss which was great, and Silas Marner, which was ok except for the chapters where it was just country bumpkins dancing/drinking/hanging out. What should I read next? Do I just jump straight into Middlemarch?