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 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  854 reviews
Sales Rank: 2636
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0312427735
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780312427733
ASIN: 0312427735
Publication Date: June 5, 2002
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 3 and half stars October 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the historical aspect of the book - Detroit through most of the 1900's, Turkey and Greece in the early 1900's. I also learned a lot and it made me much more sympathetic to gender issues brought out in the book. Having said that I wish it could have been about 200 pages shorter. I found myself plodding through it at times. I thought the story of the grandparents could have been condensed to about 50 pages but it went on and on and on. I also could have done without some of the detail at the San Francisco peep show. The ick factor at times was just way too high for me.
Kudos to the author on what must have been an incredible amount of research.
 FANTASTIC!! October 9, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
After hearing the mention of this book on Oprah's show, I decided to purchase it. I'm not a big book reader, but I couldn't put it down. I took it everywhere with me for two weeks. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end. Now, I'm trying to decide who I will pass it along too.
Must Read September 25, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was an amazing book. Eugenides tells a sprawling tale of the Stephanides family told from the perspective of a hermaphrodite (Cal) to explain the sequence of events that led him to become the person that he is. It is riveting from the second Eugenides begins in Turkey with Cal's grandparents childhood to the conclusion of the narrative in Berlin. At the same time funny, touching, and heart-breaking this book provides a level of humanity not seen in much literature today.
 Middlesex, A Novel September 18, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I can't review something I have not yet received. It has been over 30 days and the book has not yet arrived.
Boring! September 11, 2008
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you like incestual relationships, this may be the book for you. Half the book is family history and deals with the grandparents incestual relationship and then the parents semi-incestual relationship. It isn't described as a particularly bad thing that a brother and sister get married and you will even have to endure "sex scenes" between the two. It then insults people who actually are intersex by giving the impression that the incest is what caused the baby to be born that way.
The book doesn't get around to the story of Cal who is supposedly the main character. I was really looking forward to reading about Cal and his life which would have been fascinating. Instead I got a ton of boring family history that has nothing to do with the life of the main character, complete with a ton of useless crap, like the grandmothers ovulation and the fathers wierd relationship with his cousin in which he gives her thrills by touching her with his clarinet. It is actually a little disturbing.
I don't know why pulitzer or Oprah thought this book was so good. I am quite confused.
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