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Emotionally distant. I think I just figured out why I hated this book so much. The boys. Even years later they had no emotional insight. To them, the girls were objects. Merely objects of fascination. Then and still. The girls were crying out for help, for connection. So guys, be friends. Talk. It's cheap and it might save a life!
The one book in my life that I've read and been unable to be objective about.
Haven't seen the movie, but wonder if seeing the movie first makes reader's see this in a ...more
The one book in my life that I've read and been unable to be objective about.
Haven't seen the movie, but wonder if seeing the movie first makes reader's see this in a ...more
I was disappointed in this, since I'd really liked the first book I'd read by Eugenides. It just didn't seem to go anywhere. What was going to happen was laid out at the very beginning, so in order to be worth reading, there needed to be something meaningful or revealing in the way the story was told. And if it was there, I didn't see it. There was some dark humor, and a description of a lot of things the girls and boys supposedly did that I found totally unbelievable. But most of what I thought
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ehhh i guess the whole point of the book is how perceived normal ppl can commit suicide but it just seems ehhh
Dec 15, 2009
Angeliki
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