Books tagged with 'incest': 9

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The Weight of Water

by...Anita Shreve     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...1800s adultery alcoholism death drowning family fishing immigration incest murder mystery newengland read2008
shelved by...uclagirl
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Middlesex: A Novel

by...Jeffrey Eugenides     average rating...4.2 / 5
tags...072 culture family fiction gendercrisis genders greece greek hermaphrodite history incest intersexed literary nmf pleasure saga sex sexuality transgender
shelved by...ahauntedattic baberahamlincln baileybrd24 bookbaby bookgirl82 Catherine dmdurgan elishapisha gretchenroos guardedeyes jo10999 krin5292 lewru7 meade midsummernd mystery NathanielAdams punkdyke readread stringsoftension thenephilim wren
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'This One's a Classic!'

entry by...Catherine     updated...Nov 27, '05     spoilers...n/a

Eugenides writes a beautiful saga of 3 generations of Greeks in America. The narrator Cal weaves us through the story of his grandparents' journey to America from Turkey, his parents' courtship and his unique coming of age as a boy who grew up a girl. Yes, Cal, or Callie as she was then, is a hermaphrodite. In order to understand his legacy and his chromosomal makeup, he takes us through his family history with humour and insight. One of the most well-written books I've read in a long time.

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'My thoughts'

entry by...krin5292     updated...Apr 20, '08     spoilers...n/a

This beautifully written book is more than a story of a hermaphrodite. It is a rich family history interwoven with the history of Greek immigrants, as well as a history of life in the Detroit area from the early auto industry through the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. I liked all the characters from the grandparents Desdemona and Lefty through the narrator, Cal/Callie.

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entry by...stringsoftension     updated...Apr 27, '07     spoilers...n/a

wonderfully written, poignant prose (i'm going with the alliteration today).

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'Thoughts'

entry by...lewru7     updated...Jun 20, '07     spoilers...minor

Absolutely adored this book. Eugenides has a staggering gift for prose. The scene in the girls' locker room with the descriptions of exoctic salt water fish blew my mind. I loved the history, the descriptions, the story, the characters...It was one of those books that I didn't want to finish and was sad to put down. Rich, wonderfully told.

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The Cement Garden

by...Ian Mcewan     average rating...3.0 / 5
tags...chidren children death family incest
shelved by...mclauer mystery oceanlistener
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entry by...oceanlistener     updated...Jan 21, '08     spoilers...n/a

A strange, strange little book. Seemed very much like Lord of the Flies- what children will do when they create their own rules and their own society. I picked it out of Justin's old TO collection since McEwan always gets such good reviews.
The imagery is really good- subtle effects to create a very disturbing ambiance around the story. The actions of the characters, especially those of the narrator, are also quite disturbing.
How does a family become so isolated?
I didn't really enjoy reading this book, but I think it was really good since I really reacted to it. Left me with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth.

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entry by...mclauer     updated...Jun 28, '08     spoilers...minor

This is the first Ian McEwan book that I didn't really care for. The subject matter sickened me a bit and I couldn't see any redeeming quality in the end.

The mother dies, three children bury her under concrete in the basement and continue on as though she were not dead. The brother/sister incest had no correlation at all to anything else in the story -- the whole thing makes me wonder if and why Mr. McEwan really wrote this book!!!

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The Castle in the Forest: A Novel

by...Norman Mailer     average rating...3.5 / 5
tags...adultry evil fiction germany history hitler incest wwii
shelved by...oceanlistener weeshawoo
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entry by...oceanlistener     updated...Jun 22, '07     spoilers...n/a

I'm not sure how much of this book is historically accurate and how much of it is made up/rumor, but it almost doesn't matter for the story, which is really the development of an evil character. It could have been more interesting, but in the end it was too full of graphic sex and feces to feel like more than a teenager's book.

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Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)

by...Sophocles     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...classic drama fiction greek incest murder mythology tragedy
shelved by...BlackViolin PrincessOfMayhem Shadowrose96
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entry by...PrincessOfMayhem     updated...May 08, '07     spoilers...major

Oedipus is called to find who killed the former king. The oracle tells him that his fate is to kill his father and marry his mother. The king's fate was to be killed by his son. Oedipus recently killed a man of the king's description. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what's going on, but it takes Oedipus a good while. When he realizes that he's had children with his mother and killed his father, he gouges his eyes out so he won't have to look upon his children, or upon his father when he dies. This is where the term "Oedipus complex" originated.

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entry by...Shadowrose96     updated...Jan 31, '08     spoilers...n/a

Okay this story made me laugh because of how twisted it is. I loved it. This is definatly a story that you will remember no matter what.

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Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)

by...Dorothy Allison     average rating...4.3 / 5
tags...abuse carolina daughters family fiction incest mothers south
shelved by...bookleader joceeloo rtrosino Vasilly wordy
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entry by...bookleader     updated...Jun 03, '07     spoilers...n/a

Allison is a gifted Southern writer.

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'Poignant/Heart-wrenching'

entry by...rtrosino     updated...Jan 07, '09     spoilers...n/a

Incredibly beautiful and sad... very emotional... hard to read but a good one none the less. The relationships (good and bad) created here are very real, and the symbolism of some of them is really creative. I just loved it.

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Trash

by...Dorothy Allison     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...abuse carolina incest lesbian south women
shelved by...Vasilly
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Billy Dead

by...Lisa Reardon     average rating...4.0 / 5
tags...death incest love
shelved by...ahauntedattic
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The Hotel New Hampshire

by...John Irving     average rating...5.0 / 5
tags...bears bullies circus death family fiction homosexuality incest loss love prepschool sex vienna
shelved by...irving krin5292
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'My thoughts'

entry by...krin5292     updated...Dec 12, '07     spoilers...n/a

Like other Irving books I've read, this one was both funny and sad as well as quirky at times. The story kept me engaged as I wanted to find out what happens next to Franny, John, Frank, Lilly, Egg, etc.

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