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It's not a good sign when you wish all of the characters would commit suicide; Eugenides seems to hate all of these characters and cruelly mock them throughout the "marriage plot" of the book; read Virgin Suicides instead
incredibly readable but not as good as the first--starting to break its own rules
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Read in just a few hours so clearly likable; a few minor errors annoyed me as did the "wolves"; but totally going to go buy the other two now
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tiresome speeches by characters and the narrator's cataloging of miscellaneous nonsense overshadow the only interesting thing anyone remembers from the book--not Wilde at his best
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Well, s#*!, I didn't know it was a trilogy. Interesting vamp. mythology but suffers from over-exposition with no pay-off. Now to decide if it was interesting enough to read The Fall & The Night Eternal . . . .
masterful spy novel--skip the 2011 "adaptation" that all but ruins the book
took me forever to finish . . . should have left it unfinished--slogging narrative, unsatisfying non-ending
the book is stalled and trapped by a trite premise (the vintage/antique photos) instead of inspired and enlivened by them; ends open-endedly in an obvious attempt at sequels instead of completing the story; one hopes Tim Burton has stopped his circling and allows the the film adaptation to die, ensuring that children will read better books
finished in 2012 (mostly read in 2011 . . .); best story being title story; better to read his novels, though
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