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Recently read: Middlemarch by George Eliot.

I mentioned a few weeks back having issues with abridged audio books of Eliot’s novels. While listening to The Mill On The Floss wasn’t too irritating due to my previous reading experience with it, having never read Middlemarch before I found the abridged audio book I listened to very confusing and difficult to follow. From what I gathered, this is a great novel but the jumps and edits in the narrative made the experience very unpleasurable.

I will revisit Middlemarch in print form soon.

Recently read: by George Eliot

I revisted Eliot’s novel as an audio book last spring. This is one of my favorite novels which I have read in the past few years. The audio book was abridged, but I did not notice any troublesome or confusing gaps in the text. As you will read here a few days from now, I had less success with another Eliot novel recently.

• Christy Dena’s insightful response to Jane McGonigal’s essay The Puppet Master Problem: Design For Real World, Mission-Based Gaming from the Second Person anthology.

• Michael Filas review of N. Katherine Hayles’ My Mother Was A Computer: Digital Subjects & Literary Texts.

• Daniel Green reviews the new James Wood book in the new issue of Open Letters Monthly.

Meanwhile…

• The New Yorker piece on Obama’s early years in Chicago politics is another indicator he is just as scummy and slimy as the next politician. Making the right friends, the right votes, the right influences; you might counter by saying “that’s politics” but I say that if you take part in that crap, I blame you. I’d rather have no government than one filled with slimeballs. None of the above…yet again…in 2008.

• Alexander Solzhenitsyn recently passed away. When we moved to Manahawkin, I remember the first friend I made was reading The Gulag Archipelago at the time. We started to bond while discussing that and other books.

• Io9 offers a guide for fans of the modern Doctor Who series who wish to get into the classic series.

• Scott Esposito comments on the amazing ending of The Mill On The Floss and links to a review of the novel from a 1860 issue of The Atlantic.

• PETA still sucks as much as I remember.

Recently read: The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot.