Customer Reviews
Leaves a bad taste.... - By: Norman Cheeseworthy, 15 Jul 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, & depressing at times, yet at others will make you smile at the touching observations that makes it seem alll 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 - By: Prgreaves, 27 Mar 2008 
This is a book that is so thrilling, wonderful, gripping & 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 literallly carried away. Apart from the heartbreaking & 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 & smalll things, that leads to a conclusion. I would compare it to To Kill A Mockingbird & Lolita in the strangely dreamy feeling that overtakes you while reading it, & 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 - By: gerty guinea, 11 Jan 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 & their isolation & 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. - By: Iain Cameron, 08 Jan 2008 "The Virgin Suicides" The story of 5 east side teens that lead troubled lives & one by one slowly "hurl" themselves from the world. Its is beautifully crafted & 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 & with each consecutive read you will falll deeper within the novel & perceive/understand things you didn't the time(s) before that.
5*!
Dire - By: I. S. Thompson, 07 Dec 2007 
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!!
