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Fairly delightful at points--quite funny, with charming characters. 3.5 stars, really, and could easily have been 4. My only reservation is that we didn't get to see enough of (view spoiler)...more |
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I wanted to like this more than I did. I loved "Middlesex," the last Eugenides novel I'd read. In "The Marriage Plot," the characters were going to college in the same era I did, and I found the academic and cultural preoccupations pretty vivid an...
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So, in brief: I think the writing is great--really lovely, vivid and figurative. Appealingly weird setup, strong characters, and an enjoyably ambiguous undercurrent of magical realism. However...holy crap, [event that happened near the end of the book...more |
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