tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6065749759601654591..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: George Eliot, barrel of laughs - you couldn't tell the monkey from the mounseersAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-72197958257125652492012-01-29T20:17:38.797-06:002012-01-29T20:17:38.797-06:00Next time, when I re-read.Next time, when I re-read.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76835396216788716762012-01-29T18:54:34.328-06:002012-01-29T18:54:34.328-06:00Unfortunate that you didn't feel up to your us...Unfortunate that you didn't feel up to your usual week of analysis :(Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79870974554633140732012-01-29T13:01:48.113-06:002012-01-29T13:01:48.113-06:00Yes, I did.<a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2011/07/books-were-of-no-use-thinking-was-of-no.html" rel="nofollow">Yes</a>, <a href="http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.com/2011/08/too-much-dialogue.html" rel="nofollow">I did</a>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79447703254850855832012-01-28T23:05:23.047-06:002012-01-28T23:05:23.047-06:00And did you ever get to 'Middlemarch'?And did you ever get to 'Middlemarch'?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07546287562521628467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-76716098777045996102008-09-17T23:38:00.000-05:002008-09-17T23:38:00.000-05:00Take stefanie's word on Emerson - she's read more ...Take stefanie's word on Emerson - she's read more of him than I have. I want to believe! William Blake is a good candidate for the humorless list. "Visionary" writers usually have a different idea of a joke than the rest of us.<BR/><BR/>Right, Eliot is more detached from her characters than I at first realized. Maybe I'll think about this more in the context of Hetty's journey.<BR/><BR/><EM>Middlemarch</EM> tops my Humiliation list. Someday, definitely.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-34965664604670736512008-09-17T19:47:00.000-05:002008-09-17T19:47:00.000-05:00You know I have to disagree with you that Emerson ...You know I have to disagree with you that Emerson doesn't have a sense of humor. I think he is very funny at times, certainly no comedian, but he's not above a joke now and then :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-70576284292144815372008-09-17T16:53:00.000-05:002008-09-17T16:53:00.000-05:00That's a great observation about the characters be...That's a great observation about the characters being far less humorous (or at least deliberately so) than the narrator. Both <I>The Mill on the Floss</I> and <I>Middlemarch</I> are pretty funny at times too--though in them too, as in <I>AB</I>, the humour can be rather at the expense of the characters. I wonder how far that habit undermines the narrator's overt insistence on sympathy and fellow feeling.<BR/><BR/><I>Middlemarch</I> is a much greater novel that <I>AB</I>, just btw; now that you've had a taste of what Eliot can offer, maybe that one will go in your 'to read' pile.Rohan Maitzenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12111722115617352412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2928673635070796682008-09-17T08:28:00.000-05:002008-09-17T08:28:00.000-05:00It's what saved the book for me, frankly. Without ...It's what saved the book for me, frankly. Without it I doubt I would have stuck so long with it, schedule or no schedule. I reread Mrs. Poyser's landlord takedown several times and I can't help chuckling just thinking about it.<BR/><BR/>As for other great writers without a sense of humour...William Blake, maybe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com