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Title: Middlesex: A Novel
by Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN: 0374199698
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date: 04 September, 2002
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $27.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.44

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Rating: 1
Summary: What's that smell?
Comment: Oh yes, i recognize that smell. It's the fetid stink of mediocrity wafting through my cerebral cortex--a Eugenides type reading experience indeed. I thought he was bad when he wrote the Virgin Suicides, but this longwinded, turgid, aimless novel far surpasses the banalities of the previous release, launching Middlesex into the realm of full blown charlatanism. bravo, jeffrey. those writing workshops have done wonders for your craft. not only are you drab and pretentious, but you are also destroying literature as we know it, squashing the enthusiasm that any reader might have had in arts and letters, crushing hopes left and right for anyone who expects more out of the literary world than mere word play and cleverness. oh, eugenides, you've out done yourself. the world of literature now has its new anti-christ.

Rating: 5
Summary: Audiobook highly recommended
Comment: An avid consumer of audiobooks, I rank the unabridged version of Middlesex my favorite to date. I loved Eugenides' writing. Add to that Kristoffer Tabori's amazing performance in the audio version, and WOW, you've got a combination that can't be beat. Middlesex is filled with eccentric characters, and Tabori gave each a distinct and dynamic voice. Desdemona, Lefty, Callie, Milton -- they all came to life in my imagination as I listened. Tabori infused much humor into the novel with his inflections and intonations that I might have missed had I simply read Middlesex. I have only one complaint: I found this audiobook to be so engrossing that during a long car trip I missed major turnoffs THREE times! Oh well, it gave me more time to listen to Middlesex.

Rating: 5
Summary: The Definition of Beauty
Comment: "Middlesex" is an excellently written book. I cannot get over the gift of prose that the author has been blessed with. Words that I would never have thought to use in conversation much less tie together with one another seem to fly effortless one after another in a beautiful mosaic of images. As "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" is to simplicity or "My Fractured Life" is to realism, so is "Middlesex" to beauty.

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