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The Virgin Suicides | 
| Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Publisher: Abacus
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 156613
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 034910543X
EAN: 9780349105437
ASIN: 034910543X
Publication Date: May 19, 1994
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 touched for the very first time! November 18, 2008
I loved this book, it really touched me. To some people the title is very misleading, and it sounds like a bunch of girls wanting sex so bad they are prepared to kill themselves! This book has heart, and a lot of it. Following the lives of all 5 Lisbon girls, the grieving parents, and the boys who followed their every move, this is a genius piece of detailed work from Eugenides.
I highly recommend this novel to anyone. It leaves you wondering why, but deep down you really know.
so much more than your average teen book! October 3, 2008
The story of the virgin suicides is fascinating yet a little disturbing. It is written in an almost poetic way with a dash of dark humour. The story is both gripping and moving and raises certain themes which are full of deep hidden meaning and intense depth. Its a classic.
It is one of my favourite books and should not be compared to your average teen book because it is so much more than that!
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.
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