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I loved this book! I found the descriptive style of writing to be very cinematic. Having said that, I think this book would make a terrible movie! Epic in proportions, any movie would either be extremely long (in order to cover everything in the book), or would be so hacked to bits in order to get it within a practical time-frame, that it would be ruined. So, the reader is left to "see" the scenes on the theater screen of their mind.

I find many epics to be painfully tedious, but this was written in such an easy and amusing style, that it was a joy to read. It was certainly not dumbed-down, however.

This book is on my top-ten-of-all-time list! The story sweeps through three generations of the Stephanides family, chasing an unseen gene mutation that was destined to land right in the lap of Calliope Stephanides, literally. The story is written around actual historical occurrences and tells of each generation living through its own oppression, from the burning of Smyrna to the Detroit race riots of l967, to Calliope's own secret. From one generation to the next forbidden love endures, but not without consequences. This is a significant and incredible novel and I hated to see the last page.

This book was more about the main character's ancestry, which made it very boring. I was more interested in the character, not his grandmother.

Loved, loved, loved this book. The style of writing was so interesting by avoiding story telling on a superficial level and takes you to a higher level of reading. THe topic covers multi-generational history and issues, some you are acquainted with and other topics which you may have never thought about. It is not a regurgitation of a common theme of life angst. Can't wait to read his latest work.