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    SisterRay73: I've read Virgin Suicides a few times and every time it lets me down - I keep going back to it because I keep thinking "maybe I missed something", sin... more »
    Vivi21: I've never read "The Virgin Suicides" (although I saw the movie), but "Middlesex" was unbelievable. It's one of the few books I've read lately that ha... more »
    labelsdown: This is such a beautifully written book, but it always struck me as being more about boys than girls. I thought Eugenides did in incredible job captu... more »
    cait98: I count him among my favorite writers even though to my knowledge he has only written two novels. What I love about Middlesex especially is that it's... more »
    chicaferoza: He is truly a master of his craft, but beyond that, I always wondered how he was able to get into the minds of adolescent girls so well. This book- a... more »
    Lolita Hazed: It really is such a beautiful book, I need to re-read it. So mature and sexy and unbelievably poetic. I always adored Cecelia, she's my favorite Lisbo... more »
    EkaterinaBallerina: This is still to this day, my favorite book. I wrote my sophomore research paper in high school about teen suicide because of it. He lives in my hom... more »
    nessalicious: The last lines of this book are some of the most beautiful I have ever read, every time I feel uninspired as a writer I return to them and they make m... more »
    thereisn0try: If you haven't read it, I highly recommend another book of his, Middlesex more »
    PilgrimSoul: This was the first piece of contemporary literary fiction I ever read, and it has a special place in my heart because of that. But I tried to reread... more »
    dreamweave: Sometimes I wonder if the Jezebels post things to make me feel 100 years old with malicious intent. uh-oh. Questioning the motives - bad DreamWeave! :) more »
    FashionShowAtLunch: I wish I got paid that much for my private exercises of self-pleasure. more »
    Madlenka: Sadly, none of my private exercises to please myself have been this thought-provoking or successful. more »
    stacyinbean: When is he going to write a new novel though?!!?!! Such an amazing writer. more »
    LadySoprano is a Fat-Fighting Superwoman: My parents gave me the most effective sex talk ever, when I was about 14. They told me that they believed sex should be reserved for two people who ar... more »
    Understater: Somewhere Jordin Sparks is eating her words. more »
    Shotrock: I was raised Catholic and politically liberal, went to a small politically and religiously liberal college (affiliated with the United Church of Chris... more »
    WhineAndCheese: I went to an all girls Catholic high school where we learned that sex DID NOT come before marriage. That was our sex education. Every year, at least o... more »
    sparklyharempants: I'll bet none of you had to endure the humiliation attached to having a last name that sounds like a sex ed topic. Ugh. more »
    whynotshesaid: This study makes me grateful for two things. 1. That my mother sat me down when I was five and explained the mechanics of sex to me in such detail t... more »
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    Virgin Suicides Writer Contemplates Book's Sixteenth Anniversary

    "I was a virtually unpublished writer just playing around. [...] My writing was a private exercise to please myself." — Jeffrey Eugenides, on The Virgin Suicides, now one of Picador's top-selling reissues [Daily Beast]
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    No Sh-t: New Study Finds 'Virginity Pledges' Ineffective, Promoting Unsafe Sex

    Bad (yet not surprising) news for parents whose idea of sex education is making their kids pinky-swear to not have premarital sex: it doesn't work. And not only does it not work, it's not safe.