Okay, y'all are going to think I'm a bit peculiar, but you mentioned "character portraits." Just finished Middlemarch by George Eliot -- all 780 pages -- and the characters are amazingly deep and complex and real, and the way they react off each other is so true. I complained all through the first 200 pages, and ended up, if not actually agreeing, at least not arguing with anyone who thinks it's the "greatest novel in the English language."
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Date: 10/14/07 01:17 pm (UTC)