The Guardian described this as a post-modern take on nineteenth century romance and I can't improve on that. The time is the end of the twentieth century and the central characters are three American students at the end of their undergraduate years coming to terms with the big questions: love, caree...
I really enjoyed the characters in this book and the author's way of changing perspective to advance the story from either Leonard, Madeleine or Mitchell's view. The characters were complex and the story moved at a good pace while still getting the details out. My big complaint though, is the endi...
I really like Eugenides' writing, and I could relate to this story the most compared to Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides. But I wish the book was shorter, a little less soul searching and a little more English literature. I felt the marriage plot theme was a bit sidelined by the coming of age theme...
After with disastrous first encounter with Jeffery Eugenides and Middlesex, I wanted to give his writing another try and to see what I was overlooking in his writing style that in Middlesex was lost on me. So, in terms of good things, Eugenides in The Marriage Plot captures the types of characters...
Ok, here's the thing, I hated this book for most of it yet couldn't put it down. The novel starts like a Jonathan Franzen novel. Totally unlikeable or relatable characters that are entirely self-serving and no, they don't get anymore likeable. Irritating characters are not a deterrent in themselve...
3.5 StarsI knew relatively little about Eugenides before I read this book; the only thing I really knew was that his novel inspired The Virgin Suicides photos from which are endlessly reblogged on Tumblr. However, it was the review of this which is quoted on the front that really attracted me to thi...
I thought this book was incredibly honest. The perfect novel to read as a recent college grad. I could relate to the post graduate pessimism. I could understand Mitchell's hopeless attachment to Madeline. Yes the book was occasionally pretentious, yes Madeline could have been a much more interesting...
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