Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0747561621 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Nerra of Teddington, Greater London United Kingdom on 1/20/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by Nerra from Teddington, Greater London United Kingdom on Saturday, January 20, 2007
Quite a different story but compelling non the less.
Calliope Stephanides is born in 1960. He grows up in America as a girl but as a teenager it becomes apparent in a stark and somewhat brutal way that he is in fact a boy. This book explores his story but also those of the previous 3 generations in his family with many family secrets hidden. The action moves from one story to the next and certainly kept me gripped.
I encourage you to give it a try. Even if it is not your usual sort of book.

Released 17 yrs ago (1/25/2007 UTC) at The Pottery , Park Road in Kingston upon Thames, Greater London United Kingdom

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I will bring it to the meet up tonight

Journal Entry 3 by KLL from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Saturday, January 27, 2007
Picked up the Kingston meetup.

Journal Entry 4 by KLL from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Monday, April 30, 2007
Finished on the weekend! I really enjoyed this book - it was quite 'epic' in it's own way, sweeping thorugh three generations as it did. I found it interesting that the book focussed on Cal's childhood as a girl, plus snippets of his life as a 41 year old man. It meant that a great swathe of 20+ years - most the years he spent as a man - were left out or mentioned only quickly in passing. I'm not sure how the 'present' story of his relationship with Julie really fit in to the story.

One things I did find slightly annoying was the 'omniscient' narration. It kept niggling at me that Cal was narrating events and many intimate moment that he had no direct knowledge of (i.e. most of his grandparents and parent's story). The voice at the back of my mind kept saying 'how does he know that??' I don't know how Eugenides could have got around it, however. It made perfect *sense* that Cal narrates the whole thing. An omniscient third person narrator would not have been so personal or so effective. However, the outcome was that for me it fel like Cal was narrating events after he was dead (when he possibly could have the ability to know all - kind of like what happens in 'The Lovely Bones') But perhaps that's the effect Eugenides was going for. OR, alternatively, perhaps we should view it that Cal is an 'unreliable narrator', making up events to make his family history sound more interesting...

Journal Entry 5 by KLL from Perth City, Western Australia Australia on Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Released at my last ever (??) Kingston BC Meetup! Thanks for a lovely evening :-)

Journal Entry 6 by todycezar from Lisboa - City, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Wednesday, October 10, 2007
I enjoyed the book and woill pass it on to another member here in Lisbon

Journal Entry 7 by wingAnonymousFinderwing at -- Por correio / mão própria --, Lisboa (cidade) Portugal on Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Hello everyone,

i am sorry, i should have released the book long ago, i read it straight after getting it from Tody and i enjoyed very much! I think the first page is an absolute masterpiece! Also, i got the book at a time that i was about to come to Berlin and i found it very interesting that Eugenides lives here too. However, i did give the book to a lot of people: a German, an Indian, a Serbian and at last an Italian. So the book did travel a lot, in a kind of controlled fashion. It shall soon be on the road soon...thanks for releasing it Nerra!

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