“I wasn't sure I liked this novel until after 50 pages or so, but then I couldn't stop reading, although it can hardly be called a page-turner. The writing was engrossing and the characters intriguing.
I can understand why some people wouldn't love this novel as much as I do. It takes a certain kind of reader, with specific tastes, to appreciate it. Unlike, say, The Kite Runner, which continues along at a brisk pace, Middlesex makes demands of its readers. If you don't like the particular demands it makes, you aren't going to like it. (That's why appreciation of literature is so subjective!)”