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Title: a CLASSIC?
Review: I hadn't heard a single positive comment about this book until I came to Amazon.com and read some reviews. To me, Silas Marner was the book that everybody was forced to read in high school, and that everybody hated through the generations.Perhaps it is appreciated because of its interesting historical background...but now, it is OLD-FASHIONED. Not that an old, slower style of writing is bad--I have nothing against old books. What I imply when I say "old" is that we've outgrown this and expect more from books these days than a story like this.There are too many other excellent books which do a better job of exploring the same themes better to waste a few HOURS of your life in the pages of "Silas Marner."
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