The Virgin Suicides (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Review
For days, this book stuck with me.
About the Lisbon girls; sisters... who all, evidently, commit suicide at different times and in different ways. Different, like they are from each other. Why they did it, the readers wouldnt know until quite in the end. The story is narrated by one of the boys who grew up with the Lisbon girls, who adored them and have been captured by them. Obviously, or else they wouldn't be watching them and talking about them long after their lives ended.
This book stuck with me long after I finished reading it that I went out of my way to actually rent the movie version of this on dvd. Yup, I wanted to see how it would compare to the original novel. I have to say, I liked the movie and thought the actors played the characters very well. But there was just something about this book....
It was a combination of both dark and light (as in weight, not brightness), appealing yet appalling all at the same time. Maybe it's the author's writing. Easy to understand, easy to get, easy to grasp, easy to relate to.
I have to admit in some few pages I was a little bored with it, but somehow by the end of every chapter, there's always something new that brings me back to reading. So I keep reading.. and when I finished, I'll say, it was something else.
Readdd it. Wattcch it. Whatever you want to do. Just know the story and know the Lisbon girls and know the boys that were obsessed with them, and hopefully you'll see what I mean.
The Virgin Suicides (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) Overview
THIS EDITION IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Eugenides, Jeffrey Juxtaposing the common with the gothic, and the humorous with the tragic, the author creates a vivid and compelling portrait of youth and lost innocence. The sensational, b
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Customer Reviews
interesting but simple at times - psychmaster -
this book was alright. The premise was a bit simple but Eugenide's ability to describe people emotions and settings are apparent through this novel. The Narration in this book at times was a bit hard to follow and i found that I really enjoyed his book Middlesex so much better. There was much more of a story in that book. As a masters student of psychology and employed in the psych field i thought his insight into suicide and mental illness was lacking but did show how people form their own opinions and form such interest in things unknown. a great sociological teaching tool for reactions to deviant behaviors.
the virgin suicides - BeckieB -
Egenides out does himself. This novel is supurb, and I recomend it to anyone who LOVES a great piece of writting.
Haunts like a Dream. - C. Park -
i consider this one of the best american novels written in the last half of the twentieth century. lofty, i know, but there is something about its weather that calls me back, over and over again. the author is the rare writer who can make a girl blowdrying her hair by a window sound like something out of a dream. whole lines of this novel constantly assail me. such as- "audrey hepburn- whom women were obsessed with and men never think about". the strange, midafternoon sleepiness is like waking up in gentle nightmare and its 1975 and peter frampton is on the radio, but everyone is dead. you can never hear gilbert o. sullivan the same again. i mean, i always thought bread (the band) was creepy, and its inclusion as almost a plot device is like the author has a hardwire into my brain. if you were a child in any part of the seventies, this is going to strike an unusual, creepy chord with you. the movie i didn't care for all that much, but kirsten dunst as lux, well, nobody else could have done it. at the same time, its a sweet creepiness, and its the kind that is the hardest to find. no other book takes me to the place this one does. if you don't read it, you should eat it.
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