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There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

March 20, 2017 by Gracey the Giant 4 Comments

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

My friend M. found the beginning of this book to be quite pretentious. And it is.  It’s pretentious AF for the first 60 or so pages.  And it’s hard to read pretention too.  The first few pages, especially, seem to drag and serve no purpose other than to make you re-think your decision to read it. But, I’m here to tell you that, while the first part of The Marriage Plot is definitely pretentious, it’s pretentious for a reason.  The pretention of Madeline and her parents and her classmates at Brown, including her boyfriend Leonard and her want-to-be-boyfriend, Mitchell, all […]

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Ignore the Haters, This Book Rocks

The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

March 16, 2014 by the_blue_cow 1 Comment

Ignore the Haters, This Book Rocks

Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot is set in 1982 and follows three co‑eds as they graduate from Brown and embark on their first year post‑college. Madeleine Hanna is the gal at the center of this love triangle, an English major in love with the great Victorian romance novels, rather than the hip semiotics novels that her peers love. On the other two points are Mitchell Grammaticus, who is into Christian mysticism, and Leonard Bankhead, a manic‑depressive scientist. Eugenides’s writing is beautiful, but not for the faint of heart. At first you don’t like any of the characters, but they grow […]

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