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Summary: A Great Sleeping Pill. Hope its flammable
Review: This book was recommended to me by Amazon.com, and after reading the great reviews, I could not wait to dig in. I am glad there are books for anyone;s taste, but this book was consistently boring. I have ordered many books which I have enjoyed on the recommedations found at Amazon.com, but I am saving this one to start a fire next winter.
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Summary: Jeffrey Eugenides is a great talent.
Review: His recollection of childhood events is uncanny. The Virgin Suicides' narrative of young adolescents, growing up in surburban Detroit, brings back memories long forgotten.
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Summary: A fantastic story of comeing of age in mental anguish
Review: a fantastic story of comeing of age in the turmoil of mental anguish and the disinegration of the so called perfect nuclear family unit.
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Summary: Felt like getting hit by a truck then thanking the driver!
Review: This book is so powerful and well written. I haven't honestly read a book this good in years. Given to me as a present, I am now making everyone I know read this book. Read it and see what I'm talking about. It really makes you think.
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Summary: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffery Eugenides, is a rare gem.
Review: Although I have read many books that touched my soul and made me rethink others around me, The Virgin Suicides was a wake-up call. The hypnotic narration by an unidentified teenage boy puts the reader into a comatose like state; to put the book down would be like making yourself bleed. Five lovely, enchanting Lisbon sisters, Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux, and Cecilia are all different in many ways. They are the obsessions of adolescent boys in a suburb. Their lovely faces haunt their dreams. The suicide of the youngest, Cecilia, is a shock when she impales herself on the Lisbon fence. The second youngest, Lux, is rebellious, angry, and full of sorrow. Her path of self-destruction pulls the other girls down with her when her over-protective Catholic parents basically shut the girls up inside their house. The communication between the ring of teenage boys is a shock. We never heard from our narrator that they had been acknowledged before by the Lisbon girls. Their suicides, with the boys ready to whisk them away to freedom, is more a shock to the reader than the boys.
The Virgin Suicides is beautiful and haunting. It will linger painfully in the mind for years.
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Summary: a stunning book, both in subject and writing style
Review: Eugenides is an incredible new writer. His words are so carefully chosen and the resulting sentences cause one to marvel at the beauty of the written word. I found myself rereading entire sections of this book, careful to absorb every last bit of it. Don't think this book is purely somber though. I had some incredible and unexpected laughs as well. READ THIS BOOK
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Summary: Haunting and wonderful
Review: The Virgin suicides is an incredible, thoughtful, and sensitive book
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Summary: Don't be fooled by the macabre title
Review: More about living, learning and growing up than death and agony, this bittersweet novel is a must-read for any adult who survived suburban adolescence. The teenage mysteries of love, rituals of dating, and fascination of the opposite sex never seemed so innocent and compassionate as they do through the voice of this pluralized narrator. Written in a fresh voice that is at all times honest, the language alone is enough to make this book a worthwhile read.
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Summary: Beautifully written and simply compelling
Review: Easily one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. On the surface it's a story of five sisters and their family; the youngest extinguishes her own life and the family slowly deteriorates until the remaining girls join her. It's actually, however, the story of the boys who lived on their block. The story is told from their point of view in a style suggesting that they've come to some school reunion and decided to put together the pieces of the puzzle; to try and understand the mystery of what happened to the Lisbon family all those years ago. It's a story of the fascination young boys have for those mysterious creatures, girls. Funny and real, plain and tragic; I'd recommend this fine read to anyone
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Summary: good book.
Review: great book. kind of dark, but it is still well worth reading. go buy it, or borrow it from a friend
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