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I'm about halfway through Middlesex and I am so delighted by it. It is probably the best read in a very long time for me. The author's style is so immense in scale and has such a fate-oriented quality to it that makes even the most minute topics very shaking and exciting.
I read this a couple of years ago and loved it. He's a fantastic writer with a very dark sense of humour which I love.

You should read "The Virgin Suicides" by Eugenides as well. I remember laughing out loud throughout that book even though it's basically a book about 5 girls who commit suicide.

Though, I could just be a little bit disturbed...
Yes, "Middlesex" is a great book. It's one of my favourites. It's just so impossibly ambitious in its narrative, and it pulls it off. As said, you should also read "The Virgin Suicides". It's a completely different book, and not that long, but it's great. Eugenides makes some really good observations and turns them into great sentences. His newest book "The Marriage Plot" just came out. I haven't read it yet, but it should be a really good one too.


As for myself I just finished "Henry V" by Shakespeare today. I thought it was pretty meh - it just seems like there is nothing at stake in the narrative. It had it's moments, like I guess everything by Shakespeare does, but if I have to read Shakespeare and really enjoy it, I pretty much have to read one of his tragedies, like e.g. "Macbeth" or "King Lear".
I just started reading "The Porcupine" by Julian Barnes today as well. So far it seems promising.