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Middlesex This book is another reason I am beginning to dislike Pulitzer Prize winners. It seems that to win, a book must be expansive, detailing at least one or more historical times not prevelant in print, have a generaltional span of family history detailed to death over 500+ pages and finish on primarily a bland note. Middlesex could have been at least two interesting novels, one about the Greek-Turkish pre-war history and one about hermaphrodites, both needing more than the author gave us in his combined efforts. The middle of the book, which gives us the middle generation and rather dull Detroit history, could have been covered in the briefest of pages and as I would suspect, numerous readers dropped out or skipped over this section. Eugenides should give his readers some credit. Not every detail about everything need be given. Allow the reader's imagination to take flight, that is what makes a compelling read. I give the author credit for tackling an interesting subject which was handled well, when the subject rolled around from time to time. But for all the expansiveness of character development, I didn't care about these people. It was a story. Kudos to the "Virgin Suicides" for making the reader reflect and wonder.