The Virgin Suicides in Pick-a-Shelf

Jan 01, 2013 Charles rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book still resonates weeks after I read it. It is not just the subject - creepy, to be sure - but the way the author gathers the reader into the web of the story.

The sordid tale is written in a rather timeless recollection. Even more striking is that the narrators are not named and are undefined; creatively written in the first person pleural. (The denouement clarifies the authors and their perspective.)

The sisters are all imperfect individuals. They are teenagers, with issues not that dif ...more

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Feb 23, 2010 Katey rated it really liked it

I liked how this book was written but i felt it used too many BIG words and at times I felt like a needed a dictionary on hand.
I read other reviews and people said they thought it was funny. I disagree with that as I thought it was quite a creepy story.

I thought their Father was weak and their Mother cruel. I also thought their neighbourhood should've been less nosey and more helpful, but then again all neighbourhoods are nosey.

The reason I liked reading this book is because the Lisbon sisters w ...more

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Sep 30, 2011 Susan rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, young-adult

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 ...more

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Apr 12, 2010 Melissa rated it liked it

This was an interesting book. It was different but really good. Once I started reading it, It was easy to get lost but if you focus on the details you will really get into it like I did.

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