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The Virgin Suicides | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Abacus
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 53592
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 4.7 x 0.4
ISBN: 034910543X
EAN: 9780349105437
ASIN: 034910543X
Publication Date: May 19, 1994
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 Leaves a bad taste.... July 15, 2008
This is a very powerful story, following the suicides of five girls from the same family, as seen through the eyes of a group of boys.
It is grim, emotional, and depressing at times, yet at others will make you smile at the touching observations that makes it seem all too real.
Its certainly a book that will stay with you for a while after you've read it - whether this is a good or bad thing, I don't know! Just make sure your next book afterwards has a happier ending!
 In A League of Its Own March 27, 2008
This is a book that is so thrilling, wonderful, gripping and fascinating that it belongs, not just in a league of its own, but in a world of its own. I never held quite "faith" in the second-person narrator until I read this novel; it feels slow to begin with but this is necessary in that it casts you in the rich, summer-like spell, almost a dreamlike trance, that means you are literally carried away. Apart from the heartbreaking and stunningly realistic ending, it never takes any particular "dramatic" twists: this could be dull or boring in less skilled hands than Eugenides', but it only serves to sustain the illusion that this is not fiction, or a novel, but life. Things do not happen fast in life. They can be a steady build-up of emotion and small things, that leads to a conclusion. I would compare it to To Kill A Mockingbird and Lolita in the strangely dreamy feeling that overtakes you while reading it, and spins you into the web of this remarkable tragedy. It is not a book I would recommend to everyone, but I loved it.
The Virgin Suicides January 11, 2008
This was a very easy book to read - I found it hard to put down, particularly towards the end. It is very sad - the waste of the girls' lives and their isolation and desperation, but with glimpses of humour, albeit of a very dark nature. The author writes very well, with good use of description without going over the top.
Perfection. January 8, 2008
"The Virgin Suicides" The story of 5 east side teens that lead troubled lives and one by one slowly "hurl" themselves from the world. Its is beautifully crafted and never gets old. The main theme of the novel being that one person can never truly understand/know another. This book is well worth the purchase if you seem to regularly find yourself at a loose end. This will fill up your time and with each consecutive read you will fall deeper within the novel and perceive/understand things you didn't the time(s) before that.
5*!
 Dire December 7, 2007
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Total disappointment!! After forcing myself to the half way mark, I realised chinese water torture would have been preferable to continuing to the end of this bland weak tedious washout. Save your money!!
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