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Summary: Way too much pointless detail
Review: This book drags on about the most senseless details that neither matter at all to the book, or interest the reader. The book's plot is loosely connected through a complex and boring trail of these mindless details, overall, a very boring book.
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Summary: It was a boring book with to much detail that just draged on
Review: It was a boring book from the start. the only good part about it was the second half which was only about 5 chapters. the other 19 or so chapters had to much detail with boring unneccesary detail and facts which nobody in the right sense would care about.
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Summary: Exceptional piece of literature
Review: An exceptional piece of literature. All the elements to keep a '90s person entertained. Money, sex, family feunds, all you need packed in here!George Eliot is fantastic!
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Summary: Love those happy endings!
Review: This was a perfectly agreeable, though not exceptional, specimen of the 19th century British novel. Eliot was a very fine writer in the Victorian style, with an assured, elegant vocabulary and lofty moral sensibility. Like other authors of the period, she occasionally gets carried away with grandiose elliptical constructions yielding minor observations of human nature that could be conveyed much more simply. Here's one that occurs early on: "For the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity. A shadowy conception of power that by much persuasion can be induced to refrain from inflicting harm is the shape most easily taken by the sense of the invisible in the minds of men who have always been pressed close by primitive wants." Translation: powerless people distrust powerful people. Or this gem: "a dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters a desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic." Whew. Translation: people believe what they want to believe. OK, so sentences like these fall a bit humorously on modern ears, but that's half the fun of reading this stuff, and Shakespeare did it too. Anyway, these characters are very likeable and the story is engaging. You'll sympathize with poor Silas and fall in love with adorable Eppie, and everything turns out well in the end. It's not as great as Middlemarch, but it still delivers the goods.
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Summary: One of the worst I've read this year
Review: Eliots tale of the Raveloe weaver was not only boring with a shaky and divided storyline, but held a trite view of the materialistic loner Silas and his previous life. He who was entraped in his own world of pain and anguish with only his gold to comfort him, reawakened from the appearence of a young girl, Eppie. Eliot's potrayal of Silas's metamorphosis, however, held little real meaning for me. With the exception of a few kicks at the upper class, the book didn't accomplish much (especially in the way of entertainment).
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Summary: Freshman Literature Student's Point of View
Review: I really enjoyed this book. We had to read it for Freshman Literature. I thought it would be a book I wouldn't like but after I got farther in to it is got better and better.
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Summary: It was an interesting book.
Review: The book Silas Marner is an interesting book to read. The book starts off slow but gets more interesting as you get into it. It's a good book about how lies can ruin peoples' lives. I am giving a mixed review because it has both good and bad points to it. In the book Silas Marner, there is a man named Silas who lives in a small town. One day he is betrayed by his best friend and gets into a lot of trouble. After that he moves to another town were he is an outcast. He works as a weaver; he was the only one in the town so he made a lot of money. One day something happens that causes great pain to him, but one day someone comes to him and turns his life around. He is happier than he was before because he realizes that there is more to life than his money. The book has many good points to it. It has some good morals to it which are nice to know. One of the morals are that people shouldn't tell lies or keep secrets because they aren't good for the people involved. That is why this book is a good one to read. The book is bad because it was hard to understand what is going on all the time. It wouldn't be a good book for people younger than the ninth grade to read because it is hard to understand. It would be a hard book for younger people to read. It is also slow through the first part of the book because it just gives information and nothing happens. That is why it isn't a good book to read. Even with these problems, it would be a good book for older people to read.
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Summary: Silas Marner : The Weaver of Raveloe
Review: It is an exelent boo
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Summary: Emotional Story of Loss
Review: Silas Marner is quite an unusual piece of work. Not as lengthy as Eliot's other books, yet has more meaning and elements. Fantastic! It may be hard to understand at first, but it's an emotional dive into the deep.
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Summary: From a freshman's point of view
Review: Silas Marner was a good book. I give it three stars because it is kind of hard to read and the beginning of the book was really weird, but the ending was pretty good. I give it a mixed review because the beginning of the book is very boring because all George Eliot writes about is Silas' life in Lantern Yard and the boring life he leads. The middle and the end are the best parts because they at least have some excitement with some people dying in the snow and the water. I think there should be some more action in the book like fights. I am a freshman in high school, and I thought that the book was kind of hard to read because of the long paragraphs and the hard vocabulary in the book. I do not recommend this book to high school freshman because it is hard to read and hard to follow. Silas Marner is a good book because it teaches you some lessons on life. It has some good morals like to think thoroughly before you marry or before you have kids. I think that George Eliot did a very good job of writing the story with the morals even with the hard vocabulary and the long chapters and paragraphs. I think George Eliot should have written about someone who actually lived around that time because it would have made it more interesting. She should have made the book she wrote more exciting than it was.
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