The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Please... do not read this book unless you're into overrated, pretentious romance novels.

I hated this book. One because I wasted $21 CAD on it, and two because it was a waste of my time and space in Hong Kong... oh and three, it was boring and pointless.

I was misled to this book. I thought it was about a real psychological or psychiatric disease that causes Henry to time travel involuntarily. I was hoping for some twist in the end. I thought it was about how Clare had to deal with her husband's sudden and unexpected amnesia moments. Boy was I wrong.

This book was about a fake made up disease... Argh, I know I'm reading fiction, but I wasn't expecting this. While others found this book "funny" and "heart warming" and "touching", I just found it boring!

It's like a science fiction trying to be extremely realistic, which doesn't work for me, really. Reading this book was really really annoying.

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

I picked this book up because it was in the Oprah's Book Club and it's about a hermaphrodite. I like weird stuff like this. Although I didn't like this book, I wasn't too upset since I got a discount on it through a friend's bookstore membership.

The beginning of the book really interested me, because it was talking about how these Greek siblings escaped from Greece to America during some war thing in the past, paralleling what's going on in Cal's modern present day life. Then it got really boring. So boring that I can barely remember what I was reading about.

There was never really a climax, rising incidents... nothing too exciting... well except for maybe when Calliope was "discovering" who she was through various sex acts. Alright, I know I sound like a pervert, but seriously other than that nothing was really that exciting in the book. I mean... a burn down bar? come on, that's not that exciting. Jimmy trying to kill Lefty? Yeah I guess that was interesting but that's about it.

I don't really see a point in Cal talking about his relationship with Julie. Is the point... Julie is Asian so she's not going to mind Cal's ambiguous genitalia? You know... Asians and small wangs? hahahhahahahahahahhahahahahaha Wow I just thought of this now too... Gosh and it was so obvious.

I shouldn't be too upset I guess, since a friend already warned me that this was a bad book...