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Feb 24, 2023busymom51 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of the best written books I have read lately. Jeffrey Eugenides is an amazing storyteller, weaving us back and forth through decades of time and hemispheres of space. The story of generations of a Greek family culminates in the…
Nov 25, 2022
Blah. The story was interesting and the writing compelling, but after 230 pages I find I'm just not interested enough to plow through the last 300 pages; there are too many other good books out there to spend any more time on this bloated…
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Oct 17, 2022wingertdj rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
“Middlesex” by Jeffrey Eugenides marvelously tells the story of three generations of the Greek American Stephanides family. From grandmother Desdemona and her brother is a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in 1920’s through to…
Oct 15, 2022lfaris66 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I was born twice--I was hooked from that very first line...interesting story -- mostly by the history and future affects that remote villages have on the next generations.
May 26, 2022theJdoll rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Excellent story of a normal kid from a loving family who eventually figures out how not-nomal they are. Reaching back to explore family history and the lives their predecessors lived, it is a well- told, touching story with a pretty good…
Mar 25, 2022Anita_Dickey rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I read this book for the 52 books in 52 weeks reading challenge. I read the 2022 prompt read a book set on at least two continents. It is also on Listopia's 300 books everyone should read once list. I don't know what to say other than wow.…
Feb 27, 2022andreabilyeu rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I learned a lot.
Jan 31, 2022wcbind421 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A candidate for the Great American Novel? It chronicles 3 generations of the Stephanides family, from a village near Bursa in Asia Minor in 1922 to Detroit in 1975, told by Cal, the grandson. We also get scenes from the present with the…
bookpusher
Jul 15, 2020bookpusher rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
So many big Greek names, I struggled getting through it. Actually put it down for about a year.....picked it back up a couple of weeks ago. I won't lie, Part 4 really pissed me off, but the ending was okay
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Jun 23, 2020bell5133 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
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Apr 12, 2020lilypad_1 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I found this book to be unending trivialities of a family and mostly the youngest daughter who is a hermaphrodite. If you are very interested in Greek immigration to the US and dysfunctional family this is not the book for you. I was very…
Apr 06, 2020sperreault rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is my current favorite book. While the main character Cal and the issue of intersex persons is interesting, the book is about so much more. It is an epic journey through genocide, the silk trade, Henry Ford, race riots and more. It…
Dec 18, 2019Keeper_of_the_Book_Hoard rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of the best books I've read this decade. Jeffery Eugenides' Middlesex captures an epic journey with fascinating characters in a page-turner of a story. Across three generations and two continents, the magical realist story unfolds with…
ginger000
Oct 31, 2019ginger000 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I listened to the audiobook of Middlesex. The story is so beautifully told. It grabs you from the opening and holds you until the very end. The way the author writes is poetic and extremely visual. You take the journey of Calliope…
Aug 02, 2019kmcdouall rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A real page-turner family saga, with fascinating characters and locations.
Jul 20, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I can't say I've read many books featuring a hermaphrodite, so I was intrigued by this and since I'd loved Eugenides' Virgin Suicides, very hopeful that I was in for a treat. Great opening story about the early life of Cal's grandmother…
May 22, 2019AnaGM rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of my favorite books EVER. It's so good. The audio book is also really great.
Feb 20, 2019mnack_0 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Not an easy book to get through - though it's well written. It's just LONG! Interesting "insider's view" of life as an 'other-sexual'. Well worth the effort!
Feb 22, 2018pozrob rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this book immensely. However I'm not sure it would have broad appeal. For starters, it could have been trimmed down by about 150 pages. And secondly, it's a little controversial in many parts. So if you're looking for a great…
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Feb 26, 2017britprincess1ajax rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
MIDDLESEX is a once-in-a-lifetime book, a novel that spans generations in the style of FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE but for good reason for it tells the story of a gene abnormality that can be traced back to a tiny village…
Jan 11, 2017becker rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This book was nothing at all like what I was expecting and it continued to surprise me throughout. It captures little moments in history and deals with all kinds of social and political issues but does this within the body of a wonderful…
Sep 28, 2016sonoraanne rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
First half of book was more backstory to the main event -- the life of Callie/Cal. I found the slow first half did not add to the important part of the story focused on her/him.
Jul 29, 2016jwis rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel had everything. It had historical content from several regions of the world. It spanned several generations in an interestingly well written format. It was a coming of age tale. And the research and perspective regarding…
Jul 13, 2016Ethan_Annis rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Middlesex is a magnificent, sweeping novel. The narrator, a transgender person, beautifully describes the history of his family starting in Greece and immigrating to Detroit. The family history is entwined with the history of the places,…
Jun 25, 2016
Enjoyed this very much. That being said, I'm not entirely convinced it needed to be as long as it was, and the digression off into the grandmother's working life in the black neighbourhood of Detroit didn't really add much to the tale as a…