wanted someone to actually shoot me at one point
as if i went through literal hell reading this book, only for it to have the most stupid fucking ending i have ever encountered

very briefly, eliot’s writing did nothing for me (it’s very dickensian, who i LOATHE so that’s great). i think the themes were great, a large part of the novel is tracking the growth of materialism within victorian society (specifically an ecological reading, it’s very focused on nature and how the growth of entrepreneurial capitalism alters a society, as well as the interplay between the individual and the wider natural world), but i found that any effective discussions of themes were diluted with a fuck-tonne of filler moments

[ read for uni ]