The Marriage Plot
Ratings68
Average rating3.8
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Ratings68
Average rating3.8
The story concerns three college friends from Brown University—Madeleine, Leonard, and Mitchell—beginning in their senior year, 1982, and follows them during their first year post-graduation
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The best novel I've read in years. I forgot that fiction could be fun as well as beautiful. Like maths.
400 pages of white people wanting so bad to be oppressed but just being completely incapable of properly communicating and caring for each other
i liked the itty bitty bits of love letters to literature, and how this book made fun of pretentious lit majors. but also this book is for those very pretentious lit majors lol
I...wish I liked this more. I really loved both of Eugenides' other novels. I think I get where he was trying to go, with regard to tongues in cheeks, but my main struggle as a reader was with consistency. I felt grabbed once in a while, but variations in tone both within and across characters really left me feeling disconnected. I found myself wanting to finish not because I was desperate to find out how things wrapped up (too neatly, in my opinion), but because I wanted to stop reading. I feel sad about that. Finally, for the first time in reading Eugenides, I got the vibe that he's Franzen adjacent, which I don't mean as a compliment. I want more from fiction; in particular, I want bigger risks and more authorial commitment to them.
I liked this book but it fell victim to the year of unfinished book club books.
