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The Marriage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides

Start date: March 15, 2012

Finish date: April 1, 2012

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Mar 15, 2012 Ruth rated it it was ok

There was a certain fascination to this book, but not enough to keep me from feeling I was being lectured at. It was as if Eugenides knew or had done his research on three main themes and by golly he was going to make me listen to everything he’d learned.

The first lecture was Deconstruction, something I’ve failed to grasp for some time now. Eugenides did a better job than many in making me understand it, but a lesser job in making me care about his characters. The second subject of our little t ...more

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Oct 19, 2011 Kate rated it really liked it

A fun read that takes the Victorian literature idea of a marriage plot (where the characters end up with a proposal at the end) and updates it to the world of 1980s academia. It was funny and had a lot of heart. I recommend it.

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Nov 13, 2011 Myfanwy rated it it was amazing

I love this brilliant book. Love the characters (esp. Mitchell) and their journeys. My only complaint is that I wanted it to keep going but that would not be appropriate as it is very much the modern day marriage plot.

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Nov 04, 2011 Joe Mossa rated it it was amazing

this is a great book by a great writer- a love story, a bipolar story, religion, families, literature..college life etc..

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Oct 16, 2011 Yashoda Sampath rated it liked it

An alternate title for this novel might be: "Ivy Leaguers With Rich Parents Whine for 400 Pages". I'm quite disappointed, and even more disappointed that it might be a DECADE before we see another Eugenides novel (seriously, he's like the Terence Malick of books)

My full review can be found here: http://theoncominghope.blogspot.com/2... ...more

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Aug 15, 2013 Nanci Svensson rated it really liked it

Shelves: mental-illness, satire-humor, pop-culture, perspectives, coming-of-age

So far, I love every single sentence uttered by Early Adopter of Derrida - Thurston? - god, that guy was in my lit class too, quoting Stabat Mater & generally just sucked.

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Feb 26, 2014 Jade17 rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: usa, 2014

After two chapters, I thought I was reading Franzen (after having read Freedom a couple of months ago)...

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Jan 22, 2012 Inder rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, 21st-century, books, northeast, read-2012

This was enjoyable, if a bit pretentious and firstworldproblemy (seriously, could these characters be any more privileged? yawn!), but it was no Middlesex, that's for damn sure. I enjoyed the nerdy book-worm aspect, but I expect a bit more of Eugenides. ...more

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