The Virgin Suicides Paperback – January 1, 1994

I love the book

My daughter liked the story line.

Voyeuristic look into A 1970,s suburban enclave. Euginides was definitely getting something out of his system when he crafted this Novel. It is the kind of book that the printing press was invented for. The movie comes close to portraying what he was trying to get across but not quite as well. Interestingly I saw the movie first then read the book years later. VIRGIN SUICIDES is able to keep the that lost in time feel the whole way through . this edition is the one I got that has the cool cover with Kirsten Dunst.

It was a requested Christmas gift for someone, so I am assuming it's everything he was looking for.

Whatever compelled Jeffrey Eugenides to write The Virgin Suicides--a vile, misogynistic piece of rubbish in which he describes at length, but not in depth, the events surrounding the deaths of five sisters--made me wonder more about the author's psychology than those of the characters. This is late 20th-century Dadaism at its lowest. Like John Cage, Eugenides has nothing to say, and he is saying it. I threw the book across the room after I finished it, and plan to burn it as soon as I can find an incinerator so that nobody else will feel compelled to read this copy again.