TW: Suicide #ReadingChallenge2025 continues with Book 7/48, #TheVirginSuicides by #JeffreyEugenides. Review below. - ThreadSky

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andyshuttle.bsky.social • 28 days ago

TW: Suicide

#ReadingChallenge2025 continues with Book 7/48, #TheVirginSuicides by #JeffreyEugenides.

Review below.

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andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

If you’re a fan of the film, you’ll enjoy the book. Coppola captures the narrative and emotion of the story quite well, resulting in a faithful adaptation.

andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

The book is better, for sure, but only because it delves into aspects the film cannot (an expanded set of secondary characters, say, or more context regarding the boys thoughts and reasoning).

andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

It’s not a bright book. It is, after all, a story which tries to figure out why the Lisbon girls committed suicide told by the reminiscences of the boys who used to love them from afar. Narratively, in style, it reminds me of #TheBody written by #StephenKing (the story that became Stand By Me).

andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

It’s about how boys love, how appearances are just that, how we can hurt someone whilst protecting them, on the perception of girls & women, on the male need to ‘fix’ something, & on the quality of society as a whole.

andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

There are no conclusions to the story. You’re left with questions, namely: why? Just as most ask after a suicide. But you will, upon reading, fall in love with the Lisbon girls. You’ll grow fascinated by them. And when the last page turns you, like the boys, will miss them and feel their loss.

andyshuttle.bsky.social•28 days ago

For that alone, that melancholy feeling, the book is worth the read.

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