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One of the best books I've read.I always heard positive things about Middlesex but for some reason I never bought the hype. Thank God for the Oprah Book Club because I would never have read it. Cal's story is really heartbreaking but very interesting. I learned alot about intersexed people.
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First off...Bravo to Oprah for selecting such a fine book for her book club! Oprah does not treat her book club members like fluff heads...this is a smart book which assumes the reader is smart too.
Middlesex is a long book and a dense book. It is epic in scope. I found it slow to get going, it bogged down in detail in the middle for me, but the end was sublime as all the parts fit together. I was blown away.
Middlesex deals with some topics we don't want to think about...war, brother sister sexua ...more
Middlesex is a long book and a dense book. It is epic in scope. I found it slow to get going, it bogged down in detail in the middle for me, but the end was sublime as all the parts fit together. I was blown away.
Middlesex deals with some topics we don't want to think about...war, brother sister sexua ...more
i listened to the audio version of this- scandal! but actually loved it. it was quite a good narrator. the book works quite well in audio as the epic nature of it as well as the fantastic yet commonplace situations. eugenides is an excellent writer along with this, in that the language is enjoyable and vivid. an epic treat.
This book has problems. Eugenides certainly has a story to tell. Whether he tells it well is the question. I'd say, no, although there are moments of interest. He tries to tell an epic, but in the end, he just makes a long, wordy mess of what could have been a nice 200-page novel.
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The book is really well written, but the first 200 pages are really hard to get through, they stroll through family history at a perplexingly slow pace, once you get to about pager 250, the story picks up and actually has some page turning ability.
This is definitely one of my favorite books in recent memory. Beautifully written with a compelling story and absorbing characters and woven beautifully against American 20th century history.
I'd this 3.5 stars if I could.
I feel like Carol Shields did this better in the Stone Diaries. Then again, anything that reminds me of that book must be pretty good. ...more
I feel like Carol Shields did this better in the Stone Diaries. Then again, anything that reminds me of that book must be pretty good. ...more
Sep 22, 2007
Kim
marked it as to-read
Oct 30, 2007
Maryanne
marked it as to-read
Feb 26, 2008
Heather
marked it as to-read
