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Is there still anybody out there? I have recently finished, and wondered how many others have done so. Are we going to discuss the book, or have people moved on to other things?
Like others, I found Gwendolen far more interesting than Daniel. I couldn't like her, at least in the beginning, but her very flaws made her interesting, and her grim situation in being married to Grandcourt was something I wanted to see resolved for her.
Daniel seemed to be so handsome, good, kind, intelligent, caring, etc etc that he wasn't a real person at all. I understand why Eliot made him such a paragon, but for me he was rather boring. His mother, though we see only a little of her, was far more interesting.
I didn't think the book came anywhere near to Middlemarch, which was chock full of interesting characters.
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