Book 4: Final Score
We're in the final days of Middlesex. It's a long book, so if you haven't yet started you may want to wait for the next book (of course you could still read it and rate it at any time, this isn't school after all). If you've already finished, it's time to give the book your final rating.
***** = This was one of the best books I've ever read.
**** = It was a great book, I'd definitely recommend it.
*** = It was pretty good.
** = There were some parts that were OK, but overall not great.
* = Not great. At all.
0 = Didn't quite get around to this one.
October's book club selection will be announced on Sunday. Watch for more details...
***** = This was one of the best books I've ever read.
**** = It was a great book, I'd definitely recommend it.
*** = It was pretty good.
** = There were some parts that were OK, but overall not great.
* = Not great. At all.
0 = Didn't quite get around to this one.
October's book club selection will be announced on Sunday. Watch for more details...
Four 1/2 stars! I thought it was a fascinating book and an easy read despite its length. I liked the main character and appreciated the unique viewpoint of an intersex narrator.
I didn't give it five stars because I like my Pulitzer prize winning books to leave me with more of an overall meta message. Some kind of advice for life or something. Maybe I'm just thick, but I didn't pull one out of this book. It was a fabulous story, but I didn't pick up the lesson I should draw from it. Is there one? Can someone else tell me what it was or should I go get the Cliff Notes?
Is it something about free will vs. genetics, destiny vs. chance? Is is that you can't escape your family history? What's it all about? Tell me!
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I never found time to read this one this month...but! my other book cluib has selected it for our November meeting. Hopefully I can get around to it.
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I'm giving this one 4.5 stars. I was completely engrossed in the book as the characters moved through the decades. Eugenides is an excellent writer, giving plenty of description using imagery that feels both unique and familiar.
I get why "Chapter Eleven" and "Obscure Object" were named as such, but why do you think he chose to name these two characters in this way while allowing the rest of the characters to use their names? Do you think it might be a tie to how Cal felt about himself (bankrupting the family and the obscurity of his own object) that led him to refer to them in that way?
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I want to go on record as saying I DID finish this book. I read one! I was giving up on it, but then when Nora and Jill were having such a love fest over it, I decided I had to finish. And I agree, once the whole "Aha!" moment arrives it really gets rollin. I finished it in 2 days from there. I didn't sleep, or do dishes, but I did finish one book in your book club this year. Crossin' that off my life list.
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