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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

very good:

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is the story of an intersexed individual who is raised as a girl, becomes aware of hir condition as a teenager, and begins living as a male. Overall, I really enjoyed it. I don't think it's a Great Work of Literature, but any time I read a 530 page book in just under a week, you know it's engrossing if nothing else. Eugenides did a great job of inhabiting his narrator, which is rather a feat, considering the narrator's unusual circumstances. While reading it, I was thinking... more info

So good on so many levels. Read it!:

This book was so much better than I expected it to be. I'll admit, I didn't read "The Virgin Suicides," but I saw the movie, and found it pretentious, so I translated this trait onto the author, Jeffrey Eugenides. I owe him an apology for jumping to that conclusion. This book is accessible, funny, smart, sad...it's just a great, great novel, and a fabulously entertaining read.

From page one I could not put this book down. I won't give away any of the plotline, but this is the story of a hermaprodite and... more info

A bit of Greek to me:

There were lots of interesting moments but nothing much deep nor writing style very clever to keep me involved. Plus I think the author took a couple of impossible short cuts. Perhaps my opinion is tainted by dissapointment with an event that we never get to see to its fruition--the hero's first full-blossomed romantic relationship. To me it was good, basic reading but nothing special.

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