I think it's time to admit that I just hated this book. It's like the more time goes by, the more I look back on reading it and feel resentful about it. Was it "good"? That may be a separate question. I loved The Virgin Suicides and I loved Middlesex too, if not quite as much. Eugenides has great te...
The Marriage Plot was my first read of Jeffrey Eugenides and I think I get the hype, now. I feel a little too Goldilocks saying this, but everything was just right. Eugenides created very real characters, much like several I knew in college, experiencing the same struggles I did at that age. He's fa...
Although I enjoyed The Marriage Plot overall, ultimately it fell short of realizing its potential. Eugenides is no doubt a talented author, and clearly does not rush anything to publication, having only published 3 novels in almost 20 years, but this could possibly have done with a little extra twea...
I am so glad I had the time required to spend reading this novel at my turtle pace; losing myself in the luscious prose of Jeffrey Eugenides writing, loving and hating all the characters at certain times because they are all flawed and very human, and discovering that this is my most favorite book a...
I had to come back and change my rating to five stars because I found myself missing Madeleine, Mitchell and Leonard all week! As a Theology graduate I enjoyed Mitchell's story the most- on a side note how come I never met a Mitchell during my course?! No offence to KCL TRS Class of 2010. Anyway, I ...
Finally, a novel written for an English major. A modern version of a marriage plot overshadowed by the main character's obsession with marriage plots in the Victorian novel. If one of the Bronte sisters were alive today, would this be the novel they would write? Full of cliches? Yes, but so is Shake...
The Marriage Plot shall be a novel of comparisons. The most frequent comparison to be made is with Middlesex, Eugenides' last novel published nearly a decade ago. It's an unfair comparison--Middlesex was epic in many regards, and had Eugenides attempted to recreate his Pulitzer-winning novel he woul...
There are a lot of layers here, and I think that what Eugenides is trying to do is very smart, but the story just didn't hold my attention. Since I never was a big fan of the "marriage plot" novels to begin with, maybe I should have known this book wouldn't be for me. I initially liked Madeleine, th...
I liked Middlesex so much that I promised myself I was going to read everything Eugenides wrote / will write, therefore The Marriage Plot is the first book I've ever pre-ordered. I loved it from one end to the other; it's the kind of book you'd read in bed in one weekend and the only reason I haven'...
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