I agree that it should have been included, as the article is much more about 'the books of his life' than this one particular book. I expected to read more abou

I agree that it should have been included, as the article is much more about 'the books of his life' than this one particular book. I expected to read more about Middlemarch but it ended up just being a single paragraph about the quite common experience of Middlemarch being 'a book for adults'. And I personally wouldn't have clicked through or opened the thread if Pullman's name had been in the title (I dislike him as an author and as a public opinion sharer). I found the rest of the article uninteresting and uninspiring (and the experience with MM so commonly expressed to now be mundane).