Middlesex

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Is this worth reading?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 26 August 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoyed the excerpt in The New Yorker. The novel's on my list, but I haven't gotten to it yet.

― mte (mte), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Middlesex? Is it about the place? Or the county cricket club?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(amazon suggests not)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No, it's pretty good. It's very entertaining and well-paced. It's a pretty breezy read but not trashy. Plus, the paperback LOOKS REALLY NICE. I love that cover.

― n.a. (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

It was the best thing I read last year.

― Caenis (Caenis), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This is about the Eugenides, yes?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

no, this is about the long-lost unpublished george eliot novel about a young metrosexual lad finding his way in the world of high finance.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 27 August 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but The Virgin Suicides is better. Middlesex is one of those 'family history intertwines with world history, told by an unusual present day narrator' novels, and is competently done, but I was never surprised by it.

― Ray, Friday, 27 August 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I much preferred it to The Virgin Suicides, which I found kind of cold. Most satisfying novel I read last year definitely.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i enjoyed it, it's very 'hey pulitzer! over here!' though (ie. immigrants, family saga, brief history of america). still quite moving, he handled the hook much better than i thought he might, and i cried like a baby at the very end.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got the unabridged audio book version -- it's about 22 hours.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 27 August 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

it's great! read it now.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 28 August 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved the book. i thought it was well constructed and really interesting.

who's the reader for the audio book?

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Monday, 30 August 2004 15:26 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

50 pages in - yuk. he addresses the reader like they are five years old, i guess it's got a kind of fable-ish story so that makes sense but i just don't like it! should i really keep going....?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 5 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you met The Object? Wait until you meet her. If you're still not into it after that, cast it aside for something else.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 5 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

that was excerpted in the nyer before the book came out (seemingly quite awhile before if my memory is right), there was another short story in the nyer a couple of years earlier - the 'best young american writers' hooha issue, chris ware cover - that was clearly supposed to be part of middlesex but the book went another direction.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Friday, 12 November 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

this was ok. too twee in parts, & it struck me as v. weird to have a fake kidnapping & car chase in like the last ~20 pgs. agree totally that the section w/ the Object is the strongest

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 13 July 2010 13:49 (fifteen years ago)

three years pass...

'the marriage plot' was really satisfying & good imo; leonard & mitchell as loose contrasts of each other; also as real, flawed love interests for madeline against the literary version of coupling/romantic love/etc; there are also some v nice, comic but not overly, set pieces, mitchell in india, leonards manic episodes

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 15 September 2013 16:39 (twelve years ago)

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