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Book Review of Middlesex

Middlesex
Middlesex
Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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This is the most over wrought, over reaching, self indulgent novel I have ever read. It is the type of book that fancies itself to be the next great classic when it is merely the type of novel read by pseudo-intellectuals that want every one to know how literary they fancy themselves. I thought it could have been great; the story is actual quite interesting, but the self professed Homeric tendencies were a MAJOR turn off. Next time I want to feel virtuous and literary, I will read an actual classic rather than bothering with another novel like this.