![]() ![]() Tom was only thirteen, and had decided views in grammar and arithmetic, regarding them for the most part as open questions, but he was particularly clear and positive on one point, - namely, that he would punish everybody who deserved it. The Mill on the Floss tells the story of two children: willful, emotional, and bookish Maggie Tulliver, and her brother, determined, unbending, and forceful Tom Tulliver. So as soon as I finished I listened all over again, and this time had a much better experience. ![]() Only then did I grasp what Eliot was doing and why - and regretted my complaining. I grumbled about this opening for a couple of weeks, until the plot began to accelerate. Broken into short pieces, this first section seemed endless and rather boring. That was a bad way to listen! George Eliot opens this, her second full-length novel, with a long conjuring of the adult world as seen through the eyes of two children. Result: whereas normally I listen to a book in big chunks of time at the gym supplemented by smaller chunks in the car, at the store, etc., The Mill on the Floss got heard nearly entirely in very short fragments and interrupted snatches. When I run, I usually prefer to listen to music rather than books. ![]() I ended up listening to The Mill on the Floss twice through, and for that I blame the fact that I have been doing more running and less stair-climbing recently. ![]()
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