Middlemarch

Started reading it (free from iBooks) on recommendation from Atrios. Haven't read Victorian fiction before but I've enjoyed a couple of Edwardian (I think they're called) movie versions ( A Room With a View and Howard's End), which are later but seem to have some similar themes. Commenters on Eschaton seem to think MM is difficult compared with say Pride and Prejudice, which I've seen parts of carious movie versions of . We'll see.