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80 out of 80 people found this review helpful.

Middlesex - Pulitzer Prize novel - epic Greek American tale

Date of Review:  Mar 5, 2005
The Bottom Line: I'm sure this book would not appeal to everyone, but it is a refreshing look at a taboo subject with an ineresting and pivotal backdrop.
Review: There is something not quite right about Calliope Stephanides, and "Middlesex" is about her journey of discovery. The story covers three generations of her Greek-American family starting in a small Greek village and ending on the doorstep of the...
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  5.0

by: CyndiA
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Fascinating tale. Interesting...
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Odd narration. Pre-adolescent sexual...
 
80 out of 80 people found this review helpful.

The Childhood of a Greek Hermaphrodite - Middlesex

Date of Review:  Aug 21, 2007
The Bottom Line: Middlesex is the latest Oprah Book and it's worth looking at.
Review: I have been reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides for weeks. I'd seen it several times while browsing and carousing through Borders and Barnes & Noble, but I really hadn't paid much notice to it until it became a recent Oprah Book Club pick...
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  3.0

by: lyoness913
Recommended to buy: Yes

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So realistic for fiction, good story...
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Unbelievable character development,...
 
46 out of 46 people found this review helpful.

THREE GENERATIONAL TALE OF THE GOOD AND BAD IN AMERICA

Date of Review:  Feb 18, 2004
The Bottom Line: If you want to go beyond the mundane into the beautiful world of words, this is the book for you.
Review: "Middlesex" is one of the most amazing books that I have ever read. It is humorous, painful, realistic and full of fantasy of a sort. Jeffrey Eugenides' first novel, "The Virgin Suicides" was an acclaimed bestseller that I have not read. "Middlesex"...
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  5.0

by: mike.holmes
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Beautiful writing, great likable...
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43 out of 43 people found this review helpful.

Dissenting Opinion Here - Middlesex Bored Me

Date of Review:  Jun 4, 2006
The Bottom Line: Popular book club selection that left me bored. The saga is interesting but the narrator left me wanting information about himself.
Review: I always find it easier to write a review of a book I feel passionate about. If I love a book like crazy, the words jump from my fingertips. If I can't stand a book, I find the words flow fairly easily as well. It's a book like Middlesex that give...
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  2.0

by: deenaf
Recommended to buy: No

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Historically interesting, unique...
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Not enough about the narrator's...
 
38 out of 38 people found this review helpful.

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides

Date of Review:  Apr 22, 2007
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is, just read it.
Review: This is Cal Stephanides, grandson to Greek immigrants, all-American boy, 41. Cal is living in Berlin, working as an assistant cultural attache. Cal spent the first 14 years of his life as Calliope, granddaughter to Greek immigrants, all-American...
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  5.0

by: cdm72
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Brilliant writing. That's all there is...
Cons
Got caught up in it and was distracted...
 
35 out of 35 people found this review helpful.

Teen Hermaphrodites: It's All Greek to Me

Date of Review:  Oct 14, 2002
The Bottom Line: Eugenides is great at capturing '70s teen angst. However, the hermaphrodite angle makes it tough to relate, and the Greek history is bo-ring. Well-written, but occasionally drags.
Review: Wouldn't it be cool to be Greek? I think it would. Of course, my knowledge of Greek culture is pretty limited, and can actually be summarized in the following 3 points:
1.Gyros taste pretty good.
2. "Baklava" is fun to say.
3. I like...
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  4.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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No-punches-pulled exploration of...
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Not so relevant for those of us with...
 
32 out of 32 people found this review helpful.

Much more than just the tale of a hermaphrodite.

Date of Review:  Feb 7, 2003
The Bottom Line: An epic tragic comedy of a Greek family - spanning three generations. Wonderfully written and entertaining.
Review: Because I loved Jeffrey Eugenides first novel, The Virgin Suicides, I anxiously awaited his next offering. I ordered it without reading much about it and was a little put off by the synopsis. I more or less expected another Boys Don't Cry with a...
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  5.0

by: holli105
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A multigenerational epic with...
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Starts a little slow.
 
29 out of 29 people found this review helpful.

Quite the Compelling Tale

Date of Review:  Mar 17, 2005
The Bottom Line: If you are looking for one of the best books ever written that takes you on full ride through a life and all of its hardships, this book does that.
Review: "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974."

From the moment I read that very first...
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  5.0

by: Ginger_1
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Amazing writing, historically balanced...
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I found no cons to this novel.
 
22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

Both Sides Now

Date of Review:  Aug 19, 2004
The Bottom Line: An insightful, delightful, read with masterful writing.
Review: Jeffrey Eugenides richly deserves the Pulitzer Prize the novel received.

The novel traces the main character Callie's origins from before her birth to the present and explores every kind of middle ground, most notably that of gender...
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  5.0

by: econnell
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Rich narration, thought-provoking...
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Sexually explicit content may bother...
 
11 out of 11 people found this review helpful.

?I saw rejection and humiliation and I wept for my life.?

Date of Review:  May 10, 2008
The Bottom Line: Middlesex is a great book!
Review: Calliope Stephanides is a little girl growing up in Detroit in the 60's, or at least she thinks she is as she has nothing else to go on. The family doctor misses a slight difference in her genitalia when she is born, and her parents raise her...
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  5.0

by: Mattachine
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Epic, great writing, historical and...
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