There are a couple of problems with the book.\u00c2\u00a0 The first is that none of the three individuals were particularly interesting to me.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the males is enmeshed in his own depression, the other in religious studies.\u00c2\u00a0 The female, on the other hand, seems terribly wrapped up in herself and her love for the depressed male.\u00c2\u00a0 What happens to these three in the book seems overly drawn out.\u00c2\u00a0 The plot thickens, but to the point where the reader seems stuck in molasses!<\/p>\n
One other thing I didn’t like about the book was, in spite of being a Brown graduate myself, the references to the Brown campus and surroundings in the first part of the book seemed way overdone.\u00c2\u00a0 I could relate to having coffee in the Blue Room at Faunce House and all the other spots on campus (need I mention the Ratty?), but I felt it was at the expense of being a decent book.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone who had never set foot on the Brown campus would probably not care about all these place names.<\/p>\n
In addition to all the Brown references, the first part of the book is loaded with other arcane references to literarary and cultural individuals that I had never heard of (nor have much interest in ever learning about).\u00c2\u00a0 I often got the feeling that\u00c2\u00a0Eugenides was name dropping and just showing off.\u00c2\u00a0 Come on Jeff, enough is enough!<\/p>\n
Well, what is good about this book?\u00c2\u00a0 Eugenides writes incredibly well.\u00c2\u00a0 His sentences and paragraphs just fly along and each one invites the reader to read on to the next one.\u00c2\u00a0 The old saying goes that easy reading is the result of very hard writing.\u00c2\u00a0 I, as the reader, can almost\u00c2\u00a0feel the effort put forth by this writer as I fly through\u00c2\u00a0his prose.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, when I\u00c2\u00a0finished Middlesex<\/em>, I\u00c2\u00a0felt that I should have read it more slowly to savor it; in the case of\u00c2\u00a0The Marriage Plot<\/em>, I felt that I should have read it even faster to be done\u00c2\u00a0with it!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011, Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York After reading Middlesex and giving it a “5-Star” rating, I was really disappointed in this book.\u00c2\u00a0 Eugenides brings the same great writing style to this book, but the subject matter …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2](\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" "\\"2")
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