Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides

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“The Virgin Suicides, I've come to realize, is the closest thing to 'literary ecstasy' that we're likely to come in contact with any time soon.

Eugenides captures something with this novel that can't be easily distilled or reproduced (even his later effort, Middlesex, fell short)--the lines read like long-winded passages of insight. I've done my fair share of reading and dissecting of novels but rarely do I find anything else like this; one of the few books I find myself reading about...”

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lisa m said:

“I thought the book took aninteresting concept. Inmost books male chracters are worshipped from afar by female chracter. However this turned the tables and the mystery of the girls suicide... ”

posted Monday, February 2 2009

heather p said:

“Sadly, I read this after the movie, couldn't really connect with the Characters as much b/c I kept seeing Kirstin Dunce-st and Kathleen Turner in my mind...ugh.”

posted Tuesday, May 20 2008

edgar w said:

“I cannot wait to buy this book. From all of your posts it sounds amazing! What movie is mocked after it? So i can avoid it!”

posted Tuesday, May 13 2008 ( | view 1 reply )

raquel p said:

“¿Qué te está pareciendo?
¿Has llegado ya a esa parte en la que... ?
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posted Saturday, April 12 2008

stefanie g said:

“I really enjoyed the imagery of the trees and how, like the sisters, they slowly died. Throughout the book the narrator tells of the attempts by his friends and the rest of the town to understand the suicide of the Lisbon girls but can't really find an answer.

I read this after Middlesex, so it's interesting to compare the two; they're similar in that they're both narrated, but the narrator here is much more removed than in Middlesex. Also, in the last quarter of the book there are a couple of pages about a Greek grandmother that's almost a sneak peek into Middlesex.

It's also an interesting story that's well told.
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posted Sunday, January 20 2008