she was the still point of the turning world.

[semisweet]

wow. so, i read the virgin suicides last night and today. and it was beautiful and heartbreaking, which was about what i expected. and then i just watched the movie, and it was also beautiful and somehow even sadder, and i'm not sure why. but my HEART, god.

i loved this passage from the book. the narration is in first-person plural, from the point-of-view of a group of teenage boys who are basically infatuated with the sisters at the story's center. they wound up with the youngest sister's diary, and upon reading it:

we felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. we knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn't fathom them at all. we knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job merely was to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_allshallfade/]

Ahhhhh I love that book so much. ♥

[inlipstickred.livejournal.com]

i hate that i read so fast - i'm totally sad that i finished it in, like, a day. :(

but gah, it was wonderful.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_allshallfade/]

I did the exact same thing when I read it. I can feel a reread coming on REALLY soon.

[barrelofthegun.livejournal.com]

I LOVED both the book and movie. Probably one of my favorites.

[lillijulianne.livejournal.com]

y'know, i meant to ask you if you'd read it when you posted about middlesex, but forgot, so yay! one of my favorites. i'm younger than these characters but he captures the era just PERFECTLY. the scene in the movie with josh hartnett walking down the hall to "magic man"- unbelievable.

[15north.livejournal.com]

I love that book. I haven't seen the movie in a long time.

[truffle-shuffle.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite books. Jeffrey Eugenides has such an amazing, poetic way with words. And I thought Sophia Coppola did an amazing job with the movie as well.

[insunshine.livejournal.com]

Oh man, isn't it GORGEOUS?

It's one of my favorite books ever.

[rhymeswithpork.livejournal.com]

I freaking love that movie and I love the book even more. So much so that I'm starting on Middlesex right now.

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

i've never read the book, i saw the movie and was always meaning to get around to the book but i never had time. maybe i will this summer.

[faith21.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite books ever. and I was completely amazed at how perfectly the movie captures the book. I love the ending narration as well.

[subtle--sarcasm.livejournal.com]

Oh, I always meant to read the book, since I love the movie. I actually have it around somewhere, I just didn't get around to reading it yet.

That passage sounds incredible, wow. *looks for book*

[lessthangreat.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow.

This reminds me that I need to read this book so much. ;_____;