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Summary: amazing
Review: I am sixteen. This book is full of insight into many teenage girls, or at least mine. Read this book!
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Summary: my second favorite book
Review: this novel is just awesome. taking you through i lives of these five young ladies and their deaths. euginides makes it as if i knew these girls, with sharp detail. i haven't yet seen the movie, but i hope it is as outstanding as book.
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Summary: Amazing Portrayal of Complicated Teens
Review: The Virgin Suicides is unlike any novel. It was captivating and intriguing; I couldn't put it down. The story line was unique, and set the book apart from most novels I've read. Jeffrey Eugenides writes detailed, rich prose, yet the book wasn't longer than it needed to be, nor were flowery, run-on sentences to be found. I'm 16 years old and this is one of my favorite novels, yet I don't think it's because of the "young adult" theme that runs through the book, because there are deeper, more meaningful issues that you'll discover. I was left in a pensive, thoughtful mood after I put the book down - though it's no cliffhanger, it left me wondering about the ending and why the girls did what they did... don't want to ruin it for you :) I've reread it since, and it was even better the second time around. It also made watching the movie, which was great, even better (since the movie didn't seem to really fill in the gaps for you). The Virgin Suicides will be a classic in due time. Read it before they mandate it in classrooms. It's amazing!!
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Summary: Potent and Provocative
Review: An odd recollection of absurd events in an unnamed suburbia by an anonymous generation of boys, this novel keeps you entranced in paradoxes while never promising solutions. Generation-gap conflict is most certainly present, but not force-fed by any means. Social commentary runs high but, thankfully, lacks preachy explanation, satisfying the reader only by provoking him or her to ponder further alone. Surely, this work will both baffle and bewitch you, but don't expect a happy ending. The plot is disturbing, though surely not gratuitously graphic or lewd. The language is graceful and perfect, in accordance with the pretend perfection of America, where everyone "pretends to be happy." Devour this book and allow yourself time to digest it. Don't be scared of the jarring title--this novel is a real thinker.
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Summary: Brilliant Author
Review: Before reading The Virgin Suicides, I had recently read "A Child Called It". In both of these stories, the fathers were weak. I do believe that the Lisbon girls could have had changed lives if their father had stood up to be a man. The same goes for Dave's father in "IT". I loved this book and think Eugenides is brilliant for writing it. How refreshing to hear a boys/mans point of view on life! I enjoyed peering into the boys' minds. By telling the story from an outsiders point of view, the author succeeds in keeping us all mystified to the cause of the suicides. However, I could not help feeling badly for the boys. The Lisbon girls were unsually cruel to use the Boys at the end. How can the Boys ever get over that tradgey, when they were, in fact, accomplices? By speaking from the Boys' point of view, the author also points out that our lives are not really our own. We touch others in ways that we may never know. It is selfish of us to think that we are not beholden to our fellow men, families, and friends.
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Summary: This book was not as I expected.
Review: "The Virgin Sucides" was compelling, yet boring. When the book discuissed what was going on it would occasionally slip off somewhere else that really didn't have anything to do with the point he was trying to make. I feel if Jeffry Eugenides had stayed on track with his story it would be better
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Summary: Captures the reader in a poetic swirl of bliss!
Review: This book is one to read over and over again! The diction of Eugenides is so vivid and real...like you're sitting right there along with the narrator in 1970's suburbia. The author's choice of words is also very poetic and romantic. This novel pulls you in and won't let go until the last word is read, and even then, you might just let out a huge breath and sit there staring off for awhile, thinking about what you've read. This book is truly wonderful! The characters are so interesting and the story line is unique and captivating. This is, by far, the best book I have ever read and the movie is awesome as well!
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Summary: The Virgin Sucides
Review: Very well written yet with an air of mysterouism because its about four sisters who commit suicide at diffrent times and you never find out why. You see the book through tennage boys' eyes who is obbsesed over them.
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Summary: Plagues You
Review: Eugenides has the ability to create such hopeless story, with no moral or theme, no meaning no matter how deeply one reads into it, and yet still leave the reader incredibly moved. His vivid writing pulls the reader into the story and thus allows their journey to parallel that of the neighborhood boys who loved and obsessed over the Lisbon girls. One finds oneself analyzing every peice of evidence, and still finding no sense to their death, feeling bewildered and distant from the girls, and almost experiencing the same torture as the boys. The purpose of the novel is not to mourn for the death, or for the pain that drove them to it. The novel intends to leave the reader in confusion, teasing you with facts that have no significance, in the same state in which the Lisbon girls left their admirers. The novel is truly unique in its structure, especially in its lack of conclusion. Every aspect of it is truly magnificent.
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Summary: an enigma in its own context
Review: How can I describe such a beautiful image conveyed by this mixture of 26 characters? Eugenides has written something so hauntingly and realisticly true and honest to American society, it's astonishing. I may be young and naive; I'm an extensive reader but I haven't touched the "classics" as my parents say, but this book has changed me. I've read so many books, written so many reviews, and sure none of them were bad, but none of them made me think like this. I consider myself to be intelligent beyond my peers, and this book will have a different effect on everyone. But to me, it will always have played a part in my viewpoint on suicide, particularly teenage suicide. Being myself a teenager, and suicide never being outruled, this book didn't portray a loss of innocence to me. It portrayed not an absence of one, but a distorted one. Distorted by society, media, parents, war, and modern times in general. I am not my parent's daughter, but rather a product of media-whoring and big city capitalism, I guess one could say. Unlike the Lisbon sisters, I do not live in such an uptight, stoic household. But something about their tragic yet real demise touched my life in a way I cannot describe; just as I cannot describe this fictional novel in words that would make any sense to whomever decides to read this, a short review by a naive fourteen-year-old, who wholeheartedly agreed with Cecilia when she said, "Obviously, Doctor, you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl."
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