The book “Middlesex” is a very confusing and boring book in my mind. I think it is confusing because it jumps around a lot. It will go from one place to another place and from one time period to another and relatively quickly and with little warning. It has a plot that is also not that interesting to me. I am the type of person where I like to be able to picture some action in a book or a movie. This book is not that type of book.
The book would be much less confusing if it changed places or time periods at a logical place. A logical place would be maybe in the next chapter and not in the middle of a chapter. This would make it much easier to follow. If it is hard for the reader to follow then how is the reader going to stay interested in the book? The answer is they are not going to stay interested in the book and that is not being a very good author. A book needs to have a logical order that has to be followed so that the reader can know what is going on in the book.
The basic plot of the story is not very interesting to me at all. I do not see it being interesting for many other people too. The plot is about someone’s family history and how they reproduced with other family members and that is why the narrator/main character is messed up biologically. That is not something that is a very interesting topic for anything let alone a five hundred some page novel. I have no idea how this book won the Pulitzer Prize at all. A better topic would be how the main character’s biological deformities affected his life at home, at school, at the work place, in relationships, and other things along those lines. We do not need to know this person’s family history of inbreeding.
