I thought Pride and Prejudice was quite readable, myself. I think I tend to prefer classics that read more like modern novels, and although it wasn't exactly all-action, P&P was fine.
I haven't read Middlemarch. I've been thinking I could do with a classic this year, but I was intending to go for Jane Eyre (so I can then read The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, which I recently bought.)
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