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Summary: Wonderful
Review: This is truly a wonderful book. It is timeless and ought to make one pause and think about the priorities in one's life. A must have for a classic collection.
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Summary: A Review On Silas Marner
Review: "Silas Marner", the main character of the book, began as a normal person in society. Silas enjoyed being very religious. A friend wanted to be with Silas's wife and he framed Silas for doing something he really didn't do. The town basically outcasts Silas and he finds a new community and is very quiet and unsociable. Silas weaves and collects gold coins in his new community. I read the book of "Silas Marner" and personally to me the book was not that great. It is supposed to be a classic, but I don't have a taste for this type of book. The story didn't seem to have much adventure or anything in it. When I think of a good book I should like the plot. I feel that the author in places went off describing the details and the scene to much that it made the book frankly boring and it didn't need to be told. Silas's lifesaving's in gold is stolen; he found a girl that ends up in his house, raised her and much more. Find out about the story in "Silas Marner" by George Eliot.
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Summary: great writer, insignificant book
Review: If compared to Eliot's best (Middlemarch, Mill on the Floss), Silas Marner is almost a disgrace. The brilliant literary style of Eliot seems all but gone, and the story could have easily been dispensed with in a form of a short story. The story, taken on its own, is heart-warming. But there is so much "background noise" to contend with. Overall this book should be a definite miss, even for Eliot fans (like me!).In addition I'm quite surprised this novel is used as part of the English literature curriculum in many schools (here in England at least). I feel sorry for those young minds having to wade through this. I hope schools will choose Mill on the Floss instead despite its length.
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Summary: Not worth it
Review: I had to read this book for english class for some dumb reason. First of all it is really slow, secondly, I hardly got anything from this book, all I got was that if you think there is no hope there really is, and you dont have to read a long slow book with fluffy writing to learn that, you've probally heard it bfore anyways DON'T READ IT!
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Summary: A CLASSIC MUST READ
Review: A powerful novel about despair and redemptiom, when everything in Silas's world was gone something unexpected happened to replace his gold with a new golden life.Always darkest before the dawn.Hope for the hopeless.
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Summary: Enjoyable book.
Review: Not too bad, not great, just an enjoyable book for some light reading. Yes, I'd recommend it if you would just like a nice story without any hidden meaning or deep thought necessary, but if you can only afford a little time to read in your hectic life, you'd probably be able to find something more worth your time.
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Summary: Silas Marner: Introducing Providence
Review: In "Silas Marner", a weaver learns to resign himself to unhappy life circumstances. In his home-town, Silas Marner is wrongly accused of a heinous murder, forcing the poor weaver to move to Raveloe; there, his life-savings are stolen by a greedy aristocrat. Through this fictional character and his grievances, George Eliot brings tremendous support to the idea that Providence will mend things and make them whole, and that we can survive our trials by trusting in this goodly power. Although the plot develops slowly, it is engaging. You cannot help but sympathize with Silas when his reason for living- his money- is taken from him. He is devastated, and when neighbors come to offer support, he remains speechless. Life seems to have crushed him with its unfairness. It is at this point of despair that Providence intervenes, bringing an orphan girl to Silas' cottage. Silas finds her mother dead in the snow, but still he "had formed no conjectures of ordinary natural means by whihc [the arrival of the girl] could hav ebeen brought about" (115) The little girl, Eppie, transfroms Silas' reclusive life into one full of love and new happiness. Eppie comes to life as she "toddles about" and "clings" to weaver, who receives her affection awkwardly. Eliot shows, through heart-warming descriptions, how fate has blessed Silas by its miracles. Silas learns that the key to contentment is to remain optimistic. He learns the truth of neighbor Winthrop's advice: ". . . isn't there Them as was at the making on us, and knows better and has a better will? And that's all we can be sur eon, and everything else is abig puzzle to me when I think on it" (148).
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Summary: THE BOOK WAS HARD TO READ BUT WAS GOOD
Review: THIS BOOK HAD A LOT ABOUT LIFE IN IT AND WAS A GOOD LESSON TO SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE A TENDANCY TO DO THINGS BEHIND OTHERS BACKS. SILAS ACTUALLY HAD A GREAT PERSONALITY AFTER EPPIE CAME IN AND OPENED HIM UP. OTHER PEOPLE BEGAN TO REALIZE THIS AND GAVE HIM A CHANCE. THE BOOK HAD A LOT OF CONTRAST. LIKE WITH THE ROBBERY IN LANTERN YARD AND THE ROBBERY IN RAVELOE. ALSO IT WAS MYSTERIOUS I GUESS YOU COULD SAY BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT DESCRIBED CHARACTERS AND THEN LATER WITH THEIR ACTIONS SHOWED WHO THEY TRULY WERE. I AGREE WITH OTHERS THAT THE ENDING WAS NOT ALL THAT GREAT BUT I GUESS THAT IS OKAY. I WOULD HAVE NEVER READ THIS BOOK IF IT WEREN'T FOR MY PRE AP ENGLISH CLASS.
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Summary: Yes, boring.
Review: I was forced to read this book in high school in the 1970's and I still recall it to this day as being one of the most painful reading experiences of my life. And no, I was not raised with heavy doses of the "idiot box." I read several classic books on my own when I was in high school without having them assigned: Huckleberry Finn, The Red Badge of Courage, The Old Man and the Sea, and just about everything by Vonnegut. Silas Marner is a very DULL and BORING book and teachers have no business making anyone read it. I'm amazed that being forced to read Marner didn't turn me off from reading for good.
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Summary: BORING????
Review: I hear so many high school students and even adults using the word boring when describing a book or anything for that matter. I guess it is a sign of the times. We are raising our kids with such heavy doses of the idiot box (television for those of you who don't know what an idiot box is)that when they are introduced to anything of value, they become overwhelmed.
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