Read it a while ago, it's about sisters whose parents are rather strict with them and how one after the othe commits suicide.

Thanks oisec for the swap!! Excellent the book looks beautiful!
An unputdownable read! I really loved reading this sad, eerie, fascinating, macabre story. The point of view of the boys who are obsessed by these girls in their neighbourhood.
Set in 1970s suburbia, The Virgin Suicides tells the story of the Lisbon family from the point of view of a group of boys living in the same neighborhood. Mr. and Mrs. Lisbon are both sort of boring and normal, but their five daughters, Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux and Cecilia are exotic and mysterious...so different from their parents, it's hard to imagine how it happened. The story opens with the suicide of Mary, the last in the "year of the suicides" of the five sisters. From there, the story starts at the beginning as seen through the eyes of the neighborhood boys and is compiled through heresay, interviews, diary entries, personal contact, and their avid spying. What is so unique about this story is since it is told from an outside perspective, the answers to many questions remain unanswered, only assumed.
The Virgin Suicides takes readers through a year in the life of the Lisbon sisters, their untimely demise, the speculations of the neighborhood, as well as the unraveling of the Lisbon family. A tender, lively story with the ending already known, but fascinating to see how it gets there.

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I'm sooo spoied by you Geegal...I love it xxx

Thanks sunlightbub! I've heard very mixed reviews about this book which makes it rather intriguing!! I wonder if it'll be a 'yes' or 'no' for me.

I was not sure what to expect from this book considering the subject matter and having heard very mixed reviews about it. Having now read it I am still unsure what I think about it. It's voice was somewhat strange as it was that of an unknown middle aged man, looking back at his youth, when he was one of a group of boys (neighbours of the Lisbon girls), obsessed by them before and long after the suicides of the book's title.

Moving and somewht horrifying but not in a horrific way (if that makes sense). I'm sure this will stay with me and I will appreciate it more as I have time to ponder over it, but I certianly wouldn't say I disliked it or loved it. I'd say it is one of those books that seeps into you. It took me some time to read as I felt I couldn't rush through it.

This is now off to molekilby who won it in a bookswap.

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A very enjoyable book, reminded me (subjet matter) of Ian McEwan's 'Cement Garden'.

Will pass along soon.

All the way up the M4 to come back again! Picked this up on the Uncon book table.

Just like CiD I’m not at all sure how I feel about this book. Most of the narration kept reverberating like the voice of John Boy Walton and I found that very difficult to escape from. The suicides were more ethereal than real, due to seeing them at a distance, more as reminiscences rather than close up and factual. I found my interest wavering from time to time; I think this was due to the lack of first hand insight into the girl’s lives; having the whole story narrated by a third person/s didn’t quite work for me. Maybe a balance between the two would have given it more substance. However, overall I found the author interesting enough to thumb through Middlesex and put it on the top of my pile awaiting registration.