Customer Reviews
touched for the very first time! - By: Lucy Scott, 18 Nov 2008 
I loved this book, it really touched me. To some people the title is very misleading, & it sounds like a bunch of girls wanting sex so bad they are prepared to kill themselves! This book has heart, & a lot of it. Following the lives of all 5 Lisbon girls, the grieving parents, & 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! - By: Jadie C, 03 Oct 2008 The story of the virgin suicides is fascinating yet a little disturbing. It is writtenin an almost poetic way with a dash of dark humour. The story is both gripping & moving & raises certain themes which are full of deep hidden meaning & intense depth. Its a classic.
It is one of my favourite books & should not be compared to your average teen book because it is so much more than that!
Leaves a bad taste.... - By: Norman Cheeseworthy, 15 Jul 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, & 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 - By: Prgreaves, 27 Mar 2008 
This is a book that is so thrilling, wonderful, gripping & fascinating that it belongs, not justin a league of its own, butin 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 necessaryin that it casts youin the rich, summer-like spell, almost a dreamlike trance, that means you are literally carried away. Apart from the heartbreaking & stunningly realistic ending, it never takes any particular "dramatic" twists: this could be dull or boringin 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 fastin life. They can be a steady build-up of emotion & small things, that leads to a conclusion. I would compare it to To Kill A Mockingbird & Lolitain the strangely dreamy feeling that overtakes you while reading it, & 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 - By: gerty guinea, 11 Jan 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 & their isolation & 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.
