I always find Eugenides very readable, but I've never seen the greatness in him that so many others seem to find, and The Marriage Plot hasn't changed my mind. I liked reading it, enjoyed the paths that it led its characters down and the ideas that it played with, and even empathised at points, thinking that it snapped with something real-feeling, but still, in the end I thought the novel was merely very good rather than anything more.
