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#11
11-29-2004, 02:20 PM
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Re: With apologies to Ed Miller, your favorite read of the last year
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For me, it's not really close. Middlesex. [/ QUOTE ] I'm always looking for something good to read so I checked this one out. I'll pass... Hermaphodites freak me out, man. [ QUOTE ] "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." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory. Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor...{/quote] 
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#12
11-29-2004, 02:23 PM
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Re: With apologies to Ed Miller, your favorite read of the last year
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This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald [/ QUOTE ] You go to Princeton, right? Ugh, that's so incestuous it's sick. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]
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11-29-2004, 02:40 PM
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Re: With apologies to Ed Miller, your favorite read of the last year
Taiko. It's basically a samurai movie in book form. It's huge as well, 700 pages of very small type. It was origionally written in japanese by Eiji Yoshikawa and has been translated into english. I'm probably going to try musashi next (same author, 97 reviews on amazon and still 5 stars).
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11-29-2004, 02:52 PM
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Re: With apologies to Ed Miller, your favorite read of the last year
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Taiko. It's basically a samurai movie in book form. It's huge as well, 700 pages of very small type. It was origionally written in japanese by Eiji Yoshikawa and has been translated into english. I'm probably going to try musashi next (same author, 97 reviews on amazon and still 5 stars). [/ QUOTE ] I haven't read Taiko, but maybe I'll read it. Musashi was awesome on a lot of levels. Very deep on the Zen side. Probably lost some of that in the translation though. I've been watching the movie trilogy, and it's terrible by comparison.
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