Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac

I am not a Balzac fan in general, and this book was no exception.  It is very long and quite often boring.  It's also very sad as Goriot, the father of two girls, sacrifices and scrapes for his two daughters who are ungrateful and leave him all alone in squalor.  Balzac usually likes to punish the bad female characters in his books, but apparently these two girls aren't the right kind of bad for that, and they get off almost completely unscathed.  I felt very sorry for the poor old man!  Obviously, once I got far enough into the story, I became involved in the lives of the characters and cared what happened to them, so that was nice.  But it was a long road to get to that point.  Not worth the time.